Today’s Grail news briefs are (as best I can ascertain) free of April Fool stories – but they’re still plenty weird…
- Havana Syndrome: Report links mystery illness to Russian intelligence unit.
- If brain transplants like the one in Poor Things were possible, this is how they might work.
- A documentary about Nostradamus inspired one of Prince’s biggest hit songs.
- Scientists put tardigrade proteins into human cells – here’s what happened.
- Lawyer sentenced to death in China for ‘3 Body Problem murder‘.
- Related: See RPJ’s recent review of Netflix’s adaptation of The Three-Body Problem.
- People say they’re leaving religion due to anti-LGBTQ teachings and sexual abuse.
- ‘Zeus made night from mid-day’: Terror and wonder in ancient accounts of solar eclipses.
- Coronium – one of the most enduring mysteries (and mistakes) in eclipse science.
- See also: The eclipse mystery – pendulum anomaly during solar eclipses could rewrite the laws of science.
Quote of the Day:
Everybody’s got a bomb, we could all die any day,
But before I let that happen, I’ll dance my life away.