Get wild and crazy with the Wednesday Grail news briefs…
- Alien fever dreams fuel Peruvian grave robbings.
- The hidden role of the Milky Way in ancient Egyptian mythology.
- Could our first alien contact be with intelligent spiders?
- Vale primatologist Franz de Waal, friend of bonobos and paradigm disrupter.
- Gravitational waves reveal “mystery object” merging with a neutron star.
- Archaeological evidence suggests our ancestors may have kept foxes as pets long before domestic dogs came on the scene.
- Does science fiction shape the future? Conversations with visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
- Elon Musk says AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year, though a critic says the prediction is “batsh*t crazy”.
- Ground-breaking non-invasive universal brain-computer interface lets people play video games using only their mind.
- Are the posthumans here yet? Implanting machine components into human bodies, argues one scholar, could make for a better society.
- The Oakville Blobs: in 1994, mysterious gelatinous goo rained down on Washington.
Quote of the Day:
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
