The world has gone crazy, but you can still rely on the Grail to bring you the best news briefs on the intarwebs…
- The world’s oldest known pieces of sewn clothing sat in an Oregon cave for 12,000 years.
- Scientists think asteroids may have provided the ingredients for life on Earth.
- What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein: In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy. (Archived page link)
- Meet the inspiration behind Jodie Foster’s character in Contact: Inside Jill Tarter’s decades-long hunt for alien signals.
- A forgotten ESP study from 1943 is raising new questions about experiments on Canada’s indigenous children.
- Anthropic CEO says the company is no longer sure whether their Claude AI is conscious. Depends on how much marketing hype is needed I guess…
- Meanwhile: Does China care about AGI? Chinese policymakers don’t seem focused on the “race to AGI” like in the US.
- Claims swirl around US government’s response to cartel drone threat that prompted El Paso airspace closure.
- The Ur-“Conspiracy”: History of a pseudoconcept.
- Love in low gravity: The surprisingly high stakes of sex in space.
- Fake news, AI deepfakes, and the pageant of the unreal: When we can no longer tell what’s real or not, we become easily manipulated.
Quote of the Day
Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.
Roy T. Bennett
