Immerse yourself in today’s Grail news briefs…but remember to come up for air!
- DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher, date and locate ancient inscriptions.
- Does this Amazon rock art depict extinct Ice Age mammals?
- Half a million years ago, prehistoric man may have been just as sentimental as us.
- An extinct rat shows CRISPR’s limits for resurrecting species.
- The placebo problem: how scammers take advantage of a psychological effect.
- Of course we’re living in a simulation.
- Evaluating the spread of ‘von Neumann probes’ throughout the galaxy.
- Get a way-out reality check on dreams of leaving Earth.
- There are secret messages hidden in famous statues.
- Melting glaciers reveal 1,700-year-old weapons used by reindeer hunters.
- The original climate crisis: how the little Ice Age devastated early modern Europe.
- Scientific correction has failed: how COVID-19 has exposed the cracks in the system.
Quote of the Day:
I’ve considered myself an atheist for as long as I can remember…the simulation hypothesis has made me take the existence of a god more seriously than I ever had before.
David Chalmers
