The Grail news briefs will help make sure your crazy wall has the right stuff on it…
- An intoxicating 500-year-old mystery: the Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars, and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets.
- The conspiracy theorists who think Joe Biden has been replaced by AI.
- Experiments prepare to test whether consciousness arises from quantum weirdness.
- More research shuts down controversial claims about Homo naledi burying their dead 240,000 years ago and decorating their graves.
- Earth’s ‘evil twin’ Venus may have mirrored our planet more than expected, with features that are “strikingly similar to Earth’s early continents“.
- Russian chess player allegedly tried to poison opponent by smearing pieces with mercury.
- A beginner’s guide to the afterlife: Viking hell is just as metal as you’d expect.
- Man destroyed a 6,000-year-old cave painting for a Facebook photo.
- Researchers want to build ‘streetlights’ on the Moon — and they’d be taller than the Statue of Liberty.
- 4,000-year-old Babylonian texts reveal deadly omens associated with lunar eclipses.
- Boeing Starliner crew went to space for 8 days…but now might be stuck there until 2025.
Quote of the Day:
The beauty of any conspiracy theory is that because it can’t be proved, that just makes it more ‘real.’ It’s not a question of believing or not believing, really; it’s more a question of just accepting a series of probabilities that lead to an undeniable conclusion.
Dean Haglund
