It’s the eve of All Hallows’ Eve, and what horrors beyond your imaginings do the ladies of the Mosaic Ark bring to your mind tonight but that brain-eating terror known as….Apophenia!!! “No, not that!” you scream before reading that “Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections, patterns, or relationships between unrelated or random things where none actually exist.” Huh. That doesn’t sound that terrifying. It actually sounds like whatever terror “the powers that be” want us to obsess about is all in our heads, and totally in our power to ignore. Join us as we discuss the “trending” news stories that have either unhappily invaded our peace of mind, or happily piqued our imagination in the recent past. —Streamed October 30, 2026

In the Disney classic Snow White, a queen looks at a flat, reflective surface, and asks it this question: “Magic mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” The magic mirror gives the queen an answer she did not want to hear, and so an evil plot is hatched against her poor, sweet step-daughter. Silly queen. All she had to do was ask the question again in a more specific way. She would have gotten a better answer, been satisfied, then gone on her merry way; all would’ve been right with the world—at least in the Grok way of doing things. On tonight’s Mosaic Ark, the ladies pondered Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a. Super Intelligence) and what it is and is not capable of doing. We wondered whether it would become an addictive obsession for people, whether they would rely on it and trust it to give the unvarnished truth—or at least the unvarnished facts—and most importantly, whether they would succumb to the illusion that they, and not the machine, were creating with it. Have a listen, and please give us your ideas in the comments! —Streamed October 2, 2026

Elon Musk wants to save humanity by building a ship to take us to Mars and beyond; he wants to find a way to save the consciousness, the memory, of humanity so that it does not perish when Earth eventually does. He has spent a fair amount of time speaking about this over the past few years as his SpaceX venture plows ahead at great speed. As Christians, we know that only God saves; as Catholics, we know that exploration of creation through philosophy and the sciences does not conflict with our faith; and as a Catholic and a scholar, Professor Fulton Brown knows that this idea is already around 900 years old. No, there is nothing new under the sun. Join us on this week’s Mosaic Ark, as we discuss the Mystic Ark, as described by Hugh of St. Victor in 1125. —Streamed September 25, 2026