New video on our Patreon, in which we discuss the alien abduction phenomenon!
- The Pentagon just released a bunch of UFO files, but there’s not much to get excited about.
- The truth is still out there: Why Americans remain convinced that the government is hiding an alien conspiracy. (Archived page link)
- The first portable eclipse calculator was invented by the Minoans nearly 4,000 years ago.
- Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos.
- Shark or sea monster? The Canadian marine mystery that still intrigues experts 90 years on.
- Barron Trump is not a time traveller – but there’s a reason the idea has gone viral.
- Related, from 2017 here on the Grail: A 19th century science fiction author wrote a book about a boy named Baron Trump who travels to Russia, followed by a novel titled The Last President.
- A faked conspiracy theory about armed raccoons just exposed a real problem with society: People don’t believe in conspiracy theories so much as enjoy pretending they do.
- 11,000-year-old major discovery in Canada could challenge “everything we thought we knew” about North American prehistory.
- Physicists discover previously unknown crystal forged during Manhattan Project’s Trinity test.
- If humans are getting smarter, why are our brains shrinking?
- Anthropic has added several more religions in its quest to inject perfect morals into its AI ‘Claude’.
- Video of the Day: Robot promises to ‘devote myself’ as it becomes an ordained Buddhist monk in South Korea.
Quote of the Day
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder… Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.
Douglas Adams (in ‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’)
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