Infographic of cannabis strains
psychoactive | Boing Boing, 29 Juni 2017
Jody Radzik designed this incredible infographic of marijuana strains for Berkeley, California’s Patient Care Collective. Click the images to expand (your mind)!
Forest bathing to improve your health
eco | Quartz Media,12 October 2016
Albert Hofmann liked to wax about the benefits of living on the edge of a forest and regularly walking there. Now there’s scientific evidence supporting eco-therapy.
The young girls’ club
life | The Guardian, 22 October 2017
There was not much happening other than rampant alcoholism in the Indian backwater of Thenamadevi until the teenage daughters of the drinkers took things into their own hands.
The global revolution – An interview with Patti Smith
culture | Lenny, 31 October 2017
As her photographs and a poem crop up in unexpected venues across Mexico City, the punk poet talks Frida and Diego, the death of the romantic café, and why young people are going to save the world.
Facing up to the past
culture | The Nation, 31 October 2017
From Los Angeles, Austin, and Albuquerque to Cambridge, Portland, and Seattle, Columbus Day is on its way out in scores of cities across America. Municipal officials are replacing it with Indigenous Peoples Day, a day meant to recognize and celebrate the original human communities on this continent.
Reforestation
eco | Inhabitat, 31 October 2017
Conservation International aims to plant 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon in the largest reforestation project ever. The planting method used in the project is known as muvuca, which is the Portuguese word to describe many people (in this case trees) in a small place.
How the brain deals with distractions
science | Daily Accord, 31 October 2017
Researchers from the University of Singapore (NUS) have recently discovered a mechanism that could explain how the brain retains working memory when faced with distraction.
Daydreaming makes you smart and creative
mind | Kurzweil, 01 November 2017
Daydreaming during meetings or class might actually be a sign that you’re smart and creative, according to a Georgia Institute of Technology study.
Consciously hacking consciousness – your new hobby?
mind | Wired, 01 November 2017
Silicon Valley has always sought to mix engineering with enlightenment. Today, the new frontier is consciousness hacking.
Mail order genetics with CRISPR kits
science | Scientific American, 02 November 2017
Experts debate what amateur scientists could accomplish with the powerful DNA editing tool – and whether its ready availability is cause for concern.
United Nations heritage classification for Marshal McLuhan Library
culture | University of Toronto News, 02 November 2017
McLuhan’s book collection at the University of Toronto is as diverse as it is large, with subject matter ranging from media studies to English literature, Catholicism and philosophy.
Aging decoded
science | Psych.org, 02 November 2017
A team of scientists at the University of California San Diego has helped decipher the dynamics that control how our cells age, and with it implications for extending human longevity.
What Zoroaster meant to tell us
culture | Collective-Evolution, 02 November 2017
Graham Hancock investigates the mysterious religious texts of the Zoroastrians of ancient Persia and the ‘underground cities’ of neighboring Turkey. Both, he argues, are far older than is presently taught and date back to cataclysmic events near the end of the last Ice Age.
Radical new approach to schizophrenia
science | The Guardian, 03 November 2017
British scientists have begun testing a radically new approach to treating schizophrenia based on emerging evidence that it could be a disease of the immune system.
Old cells rejuvenated
life | Newsweek, 08 November 2017
A research team experimenting on a class of genes called “splicing factors” was able to take older human cells and physically rejuvenate them, turning back the clock to make them appear and behave young again.
How to beat global warming
eco | The Guardian, 08 November 2017
Until recently the battle to avert catastrophic climate change – floods, droughts, famine, mass migrations – seemed to be lost. But with the tipping point just years away, the tide is finally turning, thanks to innovations ranging from cheap renewables to lab-grown meat and electric airplanes.
Healthy mushrooms
life | Science Daily, 09 November 2017
Mushrooms may contain unusually high amounts of two antioxidants that some scientists suggest could help fight aging and bolster health, according to a team of researchers.
Eat your broccoli!
life | Sapiensoup, 09 November 2017
Sulforaphane in broccoli can greatly reduce your cancer risk, detoxify your system, and even work towards reducing Alzheimer’s.
Critical mass of influence
life | Time, 09 November 2017
Critical mass has its roots in physics: it’s the amount of material needed to sustain a nuclear explosion. Accumulate enough, set it off and there is no other outcome but boom! The concept has been used in sociology for decades.
200’000 year-old city rewrites history
culture | The South African, 10 November 2017
The complex ruins of a walled city, thought to be built by an advanced ancient civilisation have been discovered in Southern Africa.
Floating cities
life | New York Times, 13 November 2017
Long the stuff of science fiction, so-called “seasteading” has in recent years matured from pure fantasy into something approaching reality, and there are now companies, academics, architects and even a government working together on a prototype by 2020.
Voyage to Hana
culture | Civil Beat, 17 November 2017
At the invitation of the 9th annual Lima Festival’s organizers, the venerable voyaging canoe Hokulea is making Hana the second of an estimated 40 stops throughout the islands during a two-year Mahalo, Hawaii sail that began last summer.
Synthetic nanobots end antibiotic resistance
science | Futurism, 19 November 2017
By creating their own microbes, researchers could provide targeted solutions to deadly bacteria, which traditional antibiotics increasingly cannot deliver.
DNA revolution decodes genome
science | The Guardian, 19 November 2017
Without digging up a bone or a molar, scientist from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig found – merely by studying a few microscopic strands of DNA – that tens of thousands of years ago Neanderthals had sheltered at the cave Trou Al’Wesse in Belgium
Mysterious extragalactic object
life | The Guardian, 20 November 2017
Astronomers are now certain that the mysterious object detected hurtling past our sun last month is indeed from another solar system.