PSA: If you’re time traveling this weekend, please avoid 1752. Thank you for your attention – now, here’s the Friday Grail news briefs!
- Magic mushrooms? In Africa?! Researchers find evidence of classical psychedelic use outside the Americas.
- Also: Humans experimented with drugs 23,000 years earlier than we thought.
- AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them?
- This cave in China just rewrote 120,000 years of Denisovan history.
- No country for tech bros: The last days of the Network School in Malaysia.
- Loch Ness Monster: 2 new sightings, including an encounter featuring a ‘7 metre long creature moving against the current’ for 15 minutes.
- Are there nuclear weapons hidden in space? Why a 60-year ban on space nukes has been impossible to enforce. (Archived page link)
- Mysterious origins of Britain’s 4,000-year-old ‘Devils’ Arrows’ stone monument have finally been solved.
- ‘I believe they’re out there’: Northampton big cat tracker reveals hunt for evidence.
- A ghost in the machine: An eerie tale from the psych lab.
- This NASA image coloring trick was meant for Mars – now it’s unveiling rock art on Earth.
- Your personality may be written into your DNA more than we realized, new study finds.
- It from Bit: Pioneering physicist John Archibald Wheeler on information, the nature of reality, and why we live in a participatory universe.
- Video of the Day: Could there ever be a viable test for artificial consciousness?
Quote of the Day
Every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation…in short, all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe.
John Wheeler
