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Dance like you’re a magician as you read today’s Grail news briefs… Quote of the Day The vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it. John Lewis The post News Briefs…
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Researchers identified a 5,300-year-old kidney stone in the burial of a Bronze Age cattle herder in Russia.
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Chemical signatures found in a Brazilian dinosaur bone may be preserved red blood cells, a new study suggests, but not all experts agree.
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On November 22, 1987, a figure in a Max Headroom mask broke into two Chicago TV signals in one night. The FCC and FBI investigated, but the culprits were never found. Here is what the evidence shows. The post The Max Headroom Incident: 90…
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Satellite radar and underground electrical scans have revealed a 2,600-year-old structure at Buto, one of ancient Egypt's most sacred cities. The real surprise wasn't the walls — but what was underneath them.
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In July 1897 Salomon August Andrée, Nils Strindberg and Knut Frænkel set off by balloon for the North Pole and were never heard from again. Their last camp, diaries and film turned up on White Island in 1930. What killed them is still…
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What if you could forget an awesome movie you've watched so that you could watch it again as if for the first time ? The idea of selectively erasing m...
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Blue whale sightings have fallen off dramatically near the Galápagos. El Niño may be to blame.
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This Roman glass cup can change from jade green to ruby red, and it features a mythical king who tried to banish Dionysus.
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RPJ and I chatted yesterday about the new Capturing Bigfoot documentary – hitting YouTube soon, be sure to subscribe to our channel to be notified! Quote of the Day We crave narrative satisfaction in untangling systems, but evolution has…
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Like probably all of you reading this, I was very saddened by the news of Sir Patrick Stewart’s passing. I became a real Trekkie with TNG rather than the original series, so for me the captain of the Enterprise will always be Jean-Luc…
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In 1996 a pensioner in a Ural village near Kyshtym cared for a tiny being she called Alyoshenka. A police investigator filmed the witnesses, doctors disagreed about the body, and then it vanished. A 2004 DNA test pointed to a premature…
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The research hoped to learn more about the persistence of consciousness in patients who were brought back from the brink. The question of what happens...
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The Cat's Head Nebula shows its ghostly insides and sinister red eye in rival views from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.
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Harry Houdini died in Detroit on October 31, 1926, days after a McGill student punched him in the stomach. Surgeons still debate whether a blow can trigger appendicitis, a 2006 poisoning theory found no physical evidence, and his widow's…
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For most of his life, the Key West artist Gene Otto kept a felt doll named Robert at his side. Today Robert receives letters of apology from strangers who blame him for their bad luck. How did a boy's toy become the most feared doll in…
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How did the universe transition from an impenetrable fog of hydrogen into the bright and starlit cosmos we see today? Astronomers think they're onto the answer.
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On February 9, 1855, south Devon woke to lines of small hoof-shaped prints in the snow, and some locals blamed the Devil. Letters and sketches from 1855 show the marks varied in size, stride and place, which undercuts the legend of one…
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In 1895 Michael Cleary told his Tipperary neighbors that the sick woman in his bed was a fairy changeling, not his wife. Days later she was dead. Did he truly believe the old stories, or did he use them to explain away a killing? The post…
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