Start your week right with the Monday news briefs!
- Close Encounters, UFOs and cover-ups: Why Spielberg’s 1977 conspiracy theory classic is so relevant in 2026.
- Scotland’s ancient human-made islands are dripping with secrets: Crannogs may have been built by the country’s early inhabitants some 4,000 years ago.
- A massive hidden planet may be lurking beyond Neptune – this Caltech scientist thinks ‘Planet Nine’ could be confirmed this year.
- Joseph Matheny: The man who hacked reality before the Internet existed.
- Related: Watch the Daily Grail’s interview with Joseph Matheny on Ong’s Hat and the blurring of fiction and reality.
- We’ve found a tiny particle that could erase the Universe at any moment.
- The world’s top AI companies are devoting growing resources to a question many still regard as science fiction: What happens if AI becomes conscious? (Archived page link)
- Ancient humans used fire nearly 1.8 million years ago, cave evidence suggests.
- CIA officer who had millions in gold bars accused of creating fake spy program.
- Archaeologists were embarrassingly wrong about these ‘Roman’ helmets found off the Spanish coast.
- The Pope’s AI warning could help workers seek religious exemptions from using AI.
- Video of the Day: The experiment that tried to weigh the human soul.
Quote of the Day
You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.
Marcus Aurelius
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