1, 2, 3 – here’s the Friday Grail news briefs:
- When UFOs become religion: The skies — and the government — could be hiding more than we know. (Archived page link)
- Why the Nazis stole a fragment of the Bayeux tapestry.
- Was William Burroughs the first Westerner to discover the mysterious source of DMT in the shamanic brews of South America?
- Tech billionaires accused of quietly working to implement ‘corporate dictatorship’.
- Related: Remember when I warned about the tech billionaire conspiracy to destroy democracy before the US election last year?
- There may be an underground tomb hiding next to the Giza pyramids.
- SETI at the extremes.
- Music vs medication: Surprising results from a dementia ward study.
- Echoes through flesh and stone: The 11,000-year-old body piercings of neolithic Anatolia.
- Humanlike? Interpreting the emotional lives of animals requires a subtler and more nuanced understanding of anthropomorphism.
- Scientists are planning for life after finding aliens.
- Everything is a ‘false flag’ now: Conspiracy theories about so-called false-flag attacks have been around for decades – but as trust in media and public institutions craters, every single major news event is now being labeled as fake. (Archived page link)
- Five of the strangest books ever written.
- Startup claims its fusion reactor can turn cheap mercury into gold.
Quote of the Day
Recently, the press has been filled with reports of sightings of flying saucers…Our visitors from outer space could be forgiven if they reported home that our planet is inhabited by a race of insane men whose future is bleak and uncertain.
Martin Luther King Jr


