A big part of our culture, the global culture that is, lies in the process of ageing, of growing old. It’s difficult to edify, just how much of our lives are ...
On February 5th, 1971, Edgar Mitchell became the sixth person to walk on the lunar surface. While this experience in itself would no doubt be transformative, o...
Now, we all know that octopuses are about as close as anything on Earth to being an alien species (or at the very least, minions of Cthulhu) - but still, watch...
We've spoken here on the Grail before about how, in the past century, advances in science and technology have suddenly gifted (or is that cursed?) us with the ...
Tales of civilization coming to a sudden end are as old as human civilization itself, from the Biblical tale of Noah through to Plato's story of Atlantis. And s...
Over the last half century, the west coast of America has been a counter-cultural heartland, hosting important moments in the psychedelic revolution, fostering...
Excerpted from Mike Jay's Stranger Than Fiction, available in Kindle and paperback editions from Amazon.
The young H.G. Wells seems, with hindsight, to have...
Over the years we've documented Boston Dynamics incremental steps in either (a) creating a future life of leisure for humanity via robot helpers or (b) ensured ...
We Westerners believe in the power of names.
We like to live under the impression that naming a thing gives us control over it; not only that, but we also th...
The Moon has no doubt inspired the imagination of humans since we had our first conscious thoughts - for so long a mystery object traversing the sky, and then l...
