Women Power
culture | National Geographic, 14 August 2017
The Mosuo people are said to be one of the last semi-matriarchal societies in the world, following a maternal bloodline.
Mental time travel
science | Uplift, 22 November 2017
Precognitive dreams suggest the mind doesn’t follow the rules we usually apply to the physical world.
Fadiman is our man
psychoactive | Vice, 29 November 2017
Earlier this year, over 1500 volunteers from 59 countries took small doses of LSD or other psychedelics for an entire month.
Turned on in jail
psychoactive | Salon, 28 November 2017
Some of Brazil’s violent offenders are being offered the opportunity for radical rehabilitation via the powerful psychedelic experience of the ayahuasca ceremony.
Quantum protection
science | Kurzweil, 29 November 2018
A new low-cost nanomaterial developed by New York University Tandon School of Engineering researchers can be tuned to act as a secure authentication key to encrypt computer hardware and data.
Spirit of the Jaguar
psychoactive | National Geographic, December 2017
“You don’t take ayahuasca,” the shaman said. “It takes you.”
Yiddish in Romania
culture | Times of Israel, 5 December 2017
Romania’s parliament established a national day celebrating the Yiddish language and theater.
Curtains for everyone
life | The Root, 6 December 2017
Do your neighbours know everyhing about you yet?
Biocompatible bacteria
science | Kurzweil, 8 December 2017
Researchers at ETH Zürich have developed a technique for 3D-printing biocompatible living bacteria.
What causes dementia?
science | Daily Accord, 11 December 2017
An international team of scientists have confirmed the discovery of a major cause of dementia, with important implications for possible treatment and diagnosis.
Intelligent Optimism
life | Singularity Hub, 11 December 2017
In order to continue to launch moon shot ideas, tackle global challenges, and push humanity forward, it’s important to be intelligently optimistic about the future.
The Hidden Workings of Memory
science | Quanta, 14 December 2017
At MIT, Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa’s lab is overturning old assumptions about how memories form, how recall works and whether lost memories might be restored from “silent engrams”.
Conscious artificial intelligence
science | Singularity Hub, 15 December 2017
Most computer scientists think that consciousness is a characteristic that will emerge as technology develops.
Glowing in the dark
eco | The Space Academy, 18 December 2017
Roads of the future could be lit by glowing trees instead of streetlamps, thanks to a breakthrough in creating bioluminescent plants. .
Life everywhere
science | Science Daily,18 December 2017
Ancient fossil microorganisms indicate that life is common in the universe.
3D-Printed Implants
science | New Scientist, 20 December 2017
Metal pins and plates for broken bones could be a thing of the past.
Ten people who mattered
science | Nature, 21 December 2017
Nature’s Ten is the journal’s annual list of people who mattered in science in the past year.
Male contraceptive
life | IFL Science, 21 December 2017
A male contraceptive gel will start clinical trial this year.
Being better
life | The Mind Unleashed, 21 December 2017
“The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire:” (Carl Jung)
Hope for opioid addicts
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich, 22 December 2017
CBD and other cannabis-based medicines have the potential to be a major tool in the battle against the current epidemic of pharmaceutical drug abuse and overdose in the United States.
Amazing Stories
science | BBC News, 25 December 2017
BBC News looks back on eight of the biggest science and environment stories of 2017.
Protect your phone?
life | Zero Hedge, 25 December 2017
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has launched an app with which any android cell phone can be turned into a high security system.