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...
Just last week RPJ wrote here on the Grail about new clinical trials on the use of psilocybin - the entheogenic chemical in 'magic mushrooms' - as a treatment f...
"We build the tools, and then the tools build us." In a recent presentation at The Next Web conference in New York, Jason Silva quotes the brilliant Marshall Mc...
