No resources were wasted in assembling the Monday Grail news briefs…
- ‘Mirror life is a very, very bad idea‘: The strange new organisms scientists are begging each other not to build – before it’s too late.
- SETI scientists think alien signals could be hiding in old telescope data.
- “Reporting on deathbed visions changed how I think about the end of life.” (Archived page link)
- Also: Washington Post readers shared their stories of deathbed visions. (Archived page link)
- Dr. Phil reveals the White House had him review UFO files to see how the public would react to them.
- Study uncovers lost ‘golden age’ of languages: New research suggests that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago.
- “Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts.”
- The 5,700-year-old psychedelic drug mescaline finally got a modern brain scan, and the results were unexpected.
- Philippine school for exorcists draws priests from Asia as cases ‘pile up’.
- Europa’s hidden ocean may be harder to reach than we thought.
- Image of the Day: Lightning strike on Chinese rocket captured in epic launch photo.
Quote of the Day
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
G.K. Chesterton
