Everything old is new again in today’s Grail news briefs…
- Ancient shoes: tracks on a South African beach offer oldest evidence yet of human footwear.
- UFO tales and witness credibility falling apart after Congressional hearings.
- Why Mount Shasta is a magnet for believers in the paranormal.
- The real secret behind The Secret: people who think they can get anything they want simply by imagining it are more likely to go bankrupt, study finds.
- Mysterious 17th-century ‘cauldron’ may be a primitive submarine used to salvage treasure from a sunken galleon.
- Palmer Luckey says ChatGPT sold the Pentagon on AI weapons he’s now peddling.
- Fear of a nuclear fire: in the early years of nuclear research, some scientists feared breaking open atoms might start a chain reaction that would destroy Earth.
- Related: Ending the world, for science!
- ‘QBism‘: The most radical interpretation of quantum mechanics ever.
- Northern hemispherians just lived through the hottest summer ever recorded on Earth.
- Video of the Day: Can cells think? (More on Michael Levin’s fascinating research here and here.)
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Quote of the Day:
It’s possible — even desirable — not to have an opinion about things of which you know little or nothing.
Terry Teachout
