Today’s Grail news briefs will fill your cup…
- SETI starts looking for highly advanced extragalactic civilizations in 2,880 galaxies.
- ‘Closer than people think’: Woolly mammoth ‘de-extinction’ is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next.
- Bilinguals perceive colours differently based on which language they are using, new study finds.
- Related: Words are magic – how the language you speak (and hear) changes your reality.
- Which American states have the most UFO sightings? These ones.
- Climate change probably drove Ice Age western Europeans to extinction.
- Generative AI creates a playable version of the classic computer game Doom, despite using none of its code or graphics.
- NASA discovers hidden atmospheric force driving particles into space.
- Study finds that ‘button dogs’ do understand words – and not just from their humans.
- The psychology of the psychic: here’s how predictable human responses can create the illusion of telepathy.
- Huge SpaceX rocket explosion in 2023 shredded the upper atmosphere, study finds.
- Engineers claim to have recorded UAP during a 10-month sky survey using a customized RV equipped with advanced sensors.
- Is the universe conscious? Growing dissatisfaction with materialist views of the mind are propelling a resurgence in panpsychism.
Quote of the Day:
It is impossible for a human being, in a “normal” level of consciousness to experience anything of the reality of the world. Language steps in to mediate, explain, and define… [W]hile we think ourselves the masters of language, precisely the opposite is true. Language is the master of us, a tyranny from which no escape can be imagined.
