Calling all internet users: the Monday Grail news briefs are right here:
- The allure of Bigfoot: why so many Americans still believe he lurks in our forests.
- NASA is looking for volunteers to live in its Mars simulation for a year.
- Several companies are testing brain implants – two professors unpack the ethical issues with this new horizon in neuroscience.
- Hollywood star Cary Grant made LSD therapy fashionable in the 1950s.
- Ancient megalithic plaza found in the Andes is almost 5,000 years old.
- Passing stars have changed Earth’s orbit – but we don’t know how.
- NASA reveals how it would warn the world of an impending asteroid disaster.
- For hundreds of years, people thought California was an island.
- Wondering whether to watch that Netflix documentary Raël, the Alien Prophet? RPJ has reviewed it for you here.
- ‘Shooting down souls…good luck with that’: some paradoxical thoughts on the UFO phenomenon from a historian of religions.
- 8,200-year-old paintings in Patagonia helped hunter-gatherers survive for 130 generations.
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Quote of the Day:
Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto Eco
