No false promises here: the Friday Grail news briefs collection is full of absolute bangers!
- Ancient Roman may have been the world’s first collector of sea monster fossils
- Related: The Ancient Egyptians collected fossils.
- It became too easy to shout ‘aliens’, so SETI changed its rules.
- Sharon Stone’s near-death experience: “Pulled upwards into this incredibly bright white”.
- Our bacteria are talking – we’ve just begun to understand what they’re saying. (Archived page link)
- 13,000-year-old bones found near SoCal coast could rewrite human history.
- A family found a strange metal sphere in the woods. It started moving on its own – then the Navy got involved.
- Obsidian trade routes: Stone Age global networks.
- We remember little to nothing of early childhood — and a recent mouse study may help explain why.
- A hidden nuclear weapon could already be in orbit around Earth – this MIT physicist has a plan to find it.
- Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown believes she was a closeted gay soldier who was killed with a sword in a past life.
- A universe with no humans: Strange sci-visions of intelligence escaping us.
- The way the world searches for extraterrestrial life may be holding back discoveries.
- Lore of the rings: Trees contain an archive – tales of planetary shifts, cosmic events, historical pivots – that we’re only just unlocking.
Thanks to Michael M. Hughes.
Quote of the Day
The sum of love must be greater than the sum of hatred, or we should all have perished long ago.
Dr Ian Stevenson
