News everywhere else: Depressing. News at the Daily Grail: Fascinating.
- The great silence: Why haven’t we found any aliens yet?
- Ancient South American families built massive waterways by themselves.
- Where dance meets the spirit world: The history of kuda kepang, the Javanese horse dance whose trance rituals continue to spark religious debate.
- Could physics help us solve the mystery of aging? (Archived page link)
- Mount Toba was the biggest volcanic eruption in the last 2.6 million years, and some have suggested it nearly wiped out humanity – new research suggests otherwise.
- These curious ancient Greek artifacts have extraterrestrial origins – why the fashion trend vanished 3,000 years ago remains a mystery.
- Related: The ancient Egyptians mined iron from space.
- A magical stroll through the world’s oldest tarot decks. (Archived page link)
- The hidden mathematics behind why you find things beautiful.
- New research questions a textbook theory of how insect societies evolve.
- OpenAI’s only ethicist reportedly left last month – and she wasn’t replaced.
- Loch Ness Monster: New sighting by Australian tourist at Urquhart Castle shatters total number of sightings made by Highland visitors last year.
Quote of the Day
Degrade first the arts if you’d mankind degrade.
William Blake
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