Find the mystery in today’s Grail news briefs, and enjoy…
- Earliest evidence of human relatives in Europe pushed back 500,000 years.
- Elephants aren’t people and can’t sue to leave the zoo, Colorado court rules.
- Trump orders push for release of JFK and MLK assassination documents.
- Scientists discover bacteria that are trapped in endless evolutionary time loop.
- How to make oxygen on the Moon out of lunar dust.
- Bog bodies lay hidden in a Florida pond for more than 7,000 years. I’m going to assume these were the ancient progenitors of Florida Man.
- Curiosity finds evidence of open water on ancient Mars.
- UK Ministry of Defence enlists sci-fi writers to prepare for dystopian futures. Not generally the type of news headline you hear when things are going great, hmm?
- The battle to protect archaeological sites in the West Bank from the devastation and looting amid Israel’s ongoing war in the region.
- Myth and science at the North Pole: The idea of an open polar sea haunted the imaginations of European explorers and scientists alike in the nineteenth century.
- Ketamine nasal spray approved as standalone treatment for tough depression cases.
- Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027. If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you…
- Age of Disclosure UFO documentary trailer touts “biggest discovery in human history”. So apparently now ‘disclosure’ is pay-per-view…what a never-ending grift these ‘whistleblowers’ have going.
Quote of the Day:
P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.
Jonathan Gruber
