Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Daily Grail

@dailygrail.com

3.4K followers 140 following 2.1K posts

We go on adventures to the outer limits of science and history.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · Jan 3

Hey, if you miss the old internet and want to see the best elements of it thrive in 2025, here's your challenge: put just $5 aside each month and back your 5 favourite independent sites/writers with a $1/month donation/subscription.

Here's our Patreon, if interested:

www.patreon.com/dailygrail

creating blogs, books, and online articles

www.patreon.com

1 8 23

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 17h

Preserving the African engineering wonder that is Great Zimbabwe.

youtu.be/G-6uKth3JQ0

Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe | Africa’s Cultural Landmarks

YouTube video by The Met

youtu.be

2 3

Reposted by Daily Grail

Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 17h

I already assumed that James Gunn's version of Lex Luthor was inspired by Thiel, given the 'Dark Enlightenment'-themed storyline of wanting to go create his own country.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel is the Lex Luthor of our universe.

1 3 4

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 18h

The puzzle of the ‘idiot savant’: The convergence of singular talent and profound disability confounded scientists eager to place humans into neat categories.

aeon.co/essays/histo...

History’s shaming fascination for the so-called ‘idiot savant’ | Aeon Essays

The convergence of singular talent and profound disability confounded scientists eager to place humans into neat categories

aeon.co

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 20h

Anthropomorphism be damned, I think we all understand the looks on those faces.

nautil.us/this-is-what...

This Is What a Baboon Reunion Looks Like

A Baboon Family Reunion: A touching excerpt Excerpted from Echoes of Our Origins: Baboons, Humans, and Nature.

nautil.us

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 1d

200-foot scorpion effigy mound in Mexico may align with the solstices.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

200-foot scorpion effigy mound in Mexico may align with the solstices

A 205-foot-long, scorpion-shaped mound in Mexico likely helped Mesoamericans mark the summer and winter solstices, a new study finds.

www.livescience.com

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 1d

The Friday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

Easter Island's giant statues walked, Earth's gravity glitched 18 years ago, the surprising medicine hidden in honeybee pollen, and much more:

www.dailygrail.com/2025/10/news...

News Briefs 10-10-2025

You won’t believe some of the incredible things that are in the Friday Grail news briefs… Quote of the Day Artificial intelligence is changing the way we receive information and communicate, but who d...

www.dailygrail.com

4 5

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 1d

In the book, where you say "On X, Musk expressed his desire for a Roman dictator to cleanse, perhaps literally, the body politic" - do you have the reference for this? (No probs if you can't remember, but if you have it to hand I'd love to know, for something I'm writing currently.)

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 1d

New study finds that Easter Island’s giant statues might have 'walked' to their final platforms, just as local myths said.

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

How Easter Island’s giant statues “walked” to their final platforms

Workers with ropes could make the moai “walk” in zig-zag motion along roads tailor-made for the purpose.

arstechnica.com

1 1 4

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

Given the subject matter, feels a bit wrong to order @jacobsilverman.com's new book 'Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley' from Amazon's Kindle store. But I've been looking forward to this one for so long, and needed it in my eyeballs *now*.

Amazon order page confirming the purchase of the ebook Gilded Rage

1 6

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

The Thursday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

The epic hunt for a planet just like Earth, magic mushrooms show surprising power to ease pain and depression, megafauna was the meat of choice for ancient South American hunters, and much more:

www.dailygrail.com/2025/10/news...

News Briefs 09-10-2025

I am Antifa. Thanks to Greg. Quote of the Day: Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell

www.dailygrail.com

1 3

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

I do indeed like it (nay, love it!) and thanks for sending! (We did mention a variant of this story back in one of our June news briefs: www.dailygrail.com/2025/06/news... )

News Briefs 06-06-2025

God knows it’s been a hell of a news week – let’s bring it home with the Friday news briefs! Quote of the Day Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small…and you will escape the jealousy of the great....

www.dailygrail.com

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

I get so many emails like this that by the end of Trump's presidency, I reckon the Daily Grail readership will be down to about 3 to 5 people tops. 😂

Email to the Daily Grail, with subject line "Goodbye", that reads: "I've read the DG for years, but if you are Antifa, I'm done with you. No More."

1 12

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

After Dad was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, we realised it was time to stop bringing him into the yards when he started walking up behind the bull and smacking him on the arse to get him moving... 😂

1 2

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

TBH I just assumed your ceiling looks like that all the time...

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

ICYMI, this is an excellent article on the 'afterlife' research being done by the Division of Personality Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia.

www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/18/w...

What Happens After We Die? UVA Researchers Are Investigating It.

When our bodies perish, can our consciousness persist? At the University of Virginia, researchers are searching for answers, one near-death experience at a time.

www.washingtonian.com

2 7

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

I had a 2 year old Brahman bull size me up in the cattle yards a couple of weeks ago and I was straight up the fence rails. Never mind dealing with something this size 😂

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 2d

And there's some men out there who are like "I could take one"

1 9

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

And link to ebook version:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRDN2M8J/

Black Hours

Black Hours - Kindle edition by Blake, Blair MacKenzie. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Black Hours.

www.amazon.com

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

Link to paperback edition:

www.amazon.com/Black-Hours-...

Black Hours

Amazon.com: Black Hours: 9780645209488: Blake, Blair MacKenzie: Books

www.amazon.com

1 1

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 2d

Our good friend Blair MacKenzie Blake has written a new novel based in esoteric UFO lore - available now in online bookstores in ebook and paperback formats!

www.dailygrail.com/2025/10/blac...

Black Hours: A New Novel from Blair MacKenzie Blake Based in Esoteric UFO Lore

My latest novel Black Hours has been published and is currently available on Amazon and other booksellers as both an e-book and affordable soft-cover. Nearly 40 years of research, including an analys...

www.dailygrail.com

1 2 4

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 3d

Man I hate (intentionally?) shitty headline writing. ChatGPT didn't do anything here, why is active voice being used?

(The image he generated is simply one part of the evidence collected.)

BBC headline of "ChatGPT image snares suspect in deadly Pacific Palisades fire". In the text of the article it explains "Evidence collected from Jonathan Rinderknecht's digital devices included an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city"

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 3d

The Wednesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

Using AI to design brand-new viruses, the BBC Halloween special that sent viewers into a panic, navigating the fact and fiction of alien abduction stories, and much more:

www.dailygrail.com/2025/10/news...

News Briefs 08-10-2025

Check out the latest Behind the Grail episode, available now for supporters – this week we share our thoughts on the idea that we’re living in a computer simulation! Quote of the Day AI is just badly ...

www.dailygrail.com

2 5

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 3d

A reminder for those interested, that the source material for this upcoming documentary is available in book form!

Amazon link for 'Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius', by @agorightly.bsky.social:

www.amazon.com/Saucers-Spoo...

3 12

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 3d

Subconscious influence of Tool's 'lachrymology'?

web.archive.org/web/20120311...

TOOL: Lachrymology

web.archive.org

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 3d

Related story from way back on the Grail:

www.dailygrail.com/2009/10/witc...

Witches' Brews: The Use of Psychedelics in Medieval Witchcraft

The following is an excerpt from Paul Devereux’s The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia (available from Amazon US and Amazon UK), reprinted with permission. The Long Trip is… …probably the most co...

www.dailygrail.com

2 4

Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 3d

The chemistry of witchcraft.

www.chemistryworld.com/features/fro...

From flying ointments to healing herbs: the forgotten chemistry behind historical witchcraft practices

The unusual concoctions of village witches have historically been dismissed as nonsense hocus pocus - but is this the whole story? Victoria Atkinson investigates the chemistry behind the myth and whet...

www.chemistryworld.com

1 3 8