Category: good to know

Refuse(d)
eco | Brand eins, current issue
Recycling reloaded

Six Psychonauts
psychoactive | Podcast, 16 June 2018
At the Virtual & Augmented Reality Conference in Toronto

Cosmic puzzle
science | National Geographics, 5 October 20118
Axion dark matter

Consciousness
science | British Psychological Society, 8 October 2018
Not all in the head

Signals
science | Independent, 10 October 2018
Extraterrestrial intelligence?

Animal welfare
nature | Guardian, 11 October 2018
Multinationals unite forces

Portable medication
life | Empa News, 11 October 2018
Healing textiles

Memorable
science | Greenmed Info, 15 October 2018
Far-reaching epigenetic memories

Cultured
psychoactive | BBC, 17 October 2018
Influential LSD

R.I.P. Ian Kiernan
eco | NYT, 17 October 2018
A debt of gratitude

Flying on air
science | Nature, 17 October 2018
Propulsive dandelions

Blueprint
psychoactive | Forbes, 17 October 2018
Marihuana legalised by dems in 2019?

Nanocatalyst
science | Psysorg, 17 October 2018
Large scale hydrogen production

A matter of genes
science | New Scientist, 18 October 2018
Genetic changes during pregnancy

Revisited
life | Collective Evolution, 18 October 2018
Real Magic (goodnews April 2018) endorsed

Problematic
science | Quanta Magazine, 18 October 2018
Incoherent theory of multiple realities

From the inside
nature | IFL Science, 18 October 2018
Amazing animal X-rays

Bending backwards
culture | Reality Sandwich, 18 October 2018
Yoga in Egypt

A woman’s work
eco | Mongabay, 19 October 2018
Conservationists use exorcism

Art Bank
eco | Eco Hustler, 23 October 2018
Rubbish recycling

Brain scans
psychoactive | Guardian, 29 August 2018
Cannabis and psychosis

JOMO
life | Daily Good, 30 August 2018
Embracing the Joy of Missing Out

Now testing
psychoactive | Guardian, 1. September 2018
On the effects of microdosing LSD

Biased
psychoactive | Scientific American, 3 September 2018
Misreporting in psychedelic research

For better or worse
psychoactive | Aeon, current issue
What drugs do to you

Not unique
nature | New Scientist, 5 September 2017
Many species recognise themselves

Size XX
science | Science Daily, 5 September 2018
New exo-planet discovered

Life-serving
science | Nature, 6 September 2018
South Africa takes stock

LOL
psychoactive | Guardian, 7 September 2018
Tesla shares crash due to foolishness

Our psychedelic heritage
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich, 7 September 2018
How the West was lost – An interview with Tom Hatsis

Bon appétit
eco | BBC, 7 September 2018
Eating well to save water

Reduced anxiety
psychoactive | Psychopharmacology, 8 September 2018
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and autism

To kiss a toad
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich 10 September 2018
5meo explored

Cannacola
life | Guardian, 17 September 2018
Spiked soft drinks to come soon

Mindfulness
life | The Conversation, 19 September 2018
Ten minute meditation improves cognitive functions

Vegetation
science | The Mind Unleashed, 21 September 2028
Greening the Sahara with solar and wind power

Fooling the inquisition
science | Nature, 21 September 2018
Long lost Galileo letter reveals attempt at damage control

Artistically
eco | Huffington Post, 23 September 2018
Eight artists take on climate change

Healing
life | Collective Evolution, 24 September 2018
Why being near the ocean makes us feel good

Physical
science | Physical | Medical Express, 24 September 2018
Movement improves memory function

Sweet
eco | Guardian, 26 July 2018
Clean chocolate

Resilient
psychoactive | Reset Me, 1 August 2018
Longterm cannabis smokers stay well

Artificial
science | Return to Now, 1 August 2018
Amazon man-made

Respectable
psychoactive | TLS, 8 August 2018
Considering LSD

No stoners
psychoactive | Guardian, 12 August 2018
Women in the cannabis trade

Powerful
psychoactive | Lenny, 14 August 2018
Shrooming 101 with Bett Williams

Climate kids
eco | New Scientist 15 August 2018
The children taking the US government to court

Promising
psychoactive | The Conversation, 16 August 2018
Psychedelics and science

Functional fingerprint
science | Quanta Magazine, 16 August 2018
Scientist explore brain connectivity

Constitutionally
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment, 17 August 2018
The effects of legalisation

Sky high
science | Nature, 17 August 2018
First wind-mapping satellite to take off soon

Better cannabis
psychoactive | High Times, 21 August 2018
Patients in mind

Mixed blood
science | IFL Science, 22 August 2018
Denisovan and Neanderthal

Living at the edge
eco | Ecohustler, 22 August 2018
News from Biosphere 2

Deep end
science | Science, 23 August 2018
Life in the ocean’s twilight zone

Citizen science
psychoactive | Techgnosis, 24 August 2018
Erik Davis speaks up

Uncontacted
culture | Mongabay, 24 August 2018
Confirmed Amazon tribe

Stone age treasures
science | The Independent, 24 August 2018
Early humans had modern hands

Tidal energy
eco | Techxplore, 25 August 2018
Technology progresses

To flush or not to flush
eco | NYT, 25 August 2018
Wastewater and whitewater

High Choices
psychoactive | The Guardian, 25 June 2018
A purchaser’s guide to weed

High Visibility
science | Physics-Astonomy, 28 June 2018
Vesta in the night sky

An appreciation
culture | Psychedelic Press, 29 June 2018
Howard Marks revisited

Just not married
life | Lenny Letter, 3 July 2018
Nigerian weddings

Antidepressant
psychoactive | CNN, 3 July 2018
Ayahuasca works

Shadow World
life | Reality Sandwich, 7 July 2018
Wilderness in the soul

While you were sleeping
psychoactive | PsyPost, 9 July 2018
Rest on cannabis

Conservation
eco | Mongabay, 10 July 2018
Meet the CryptoKitties

Feeling tired?
life  | Healing Oracle, 13 July 2018
Fighting that woozy feeling

Gratefulness
life  | Educate, Inspire, Change, present issue
Being thankful is good for you

Universal
science | The Independent, 16 July 2018
The man behind the expanding universe

Mystical
psychoactive | Aeon, 17 July 2018
Is the psychedelic experience universal?

Ultrasound
science | Techly, 18 July 2018
Saturn as recorded by Cassini

Many moons
science | NYT, 18 July 2018
The satellites of Jupiter

Tidal waves
eco | Ecohustler, 19 July 2018
The only engineless cargo ship

Waxing & waning
science | New Scientist, 20 July 2018
Sun changes in size

Filet gumbo
life | Alternet, 21 July, 2018
Raising the Profile of Gullah/Geechee cuisine

Smarts
life | Collective Evolution, 21 July 2018
Are you intelligent?

Sharing is caring
psychoactive  | Sci News Reporter, 22 July 2018
Marijuana not from Mars!

Less plastic
eco | Return to Now, 22 July 2018
Marriott bans a billion straws

Training
psychoactive | Participate
MAPS in search of MDMA therapists

Walking the Witch
culture | Podcast
Further adventures of Pam Grossman

Cheeky
nature | Guardian, 1 June 2018
Perpetrators behind shoe theft discovered

Chartered
nature | Mongabay, 6 June 2018
Waoranis map their land

Water
nature | Hakai Magazine, 8 June 2018
Fifteen stories from five seas

Domestic bliss
psychoactive | PsyPost, 8 June 2018
Less violent thanks to psychedelics

French hit
psychoactive | Telegraph, 10 June 2018
First CBD shops in Paris

Smarter
nature | The Mind Unleashed, 10 June 2018
Bees understand mathematical concept

Effectivity
psychoactive | Leafly, 11 June 2018
UN drug committee findings on cannabis

Damage undone
psychoactive  | Independent, 12 June 2018
LSD, shrooms & depression

Cannasex
psychoactive | BBC, 15 June 2018
Sex life enhanced

Lost language
science | Science Alert, 16 June 2018
Knotted code of the Incas yet to be deciphered

Big money
nature | Return to Now, 19 June 2018
500 Sequoias protected

Fungi
psychoactive | Techgnosis, 19 June 2018
About the DIY of mycology

Passed
psychoactive | The Guardian, 20 June 2018
Recreational cannabis in Canada

Oetzi’s accoutrements
science | New York Times, 21 June 2018
Copper age revelations

FAQ
culture | Collective Evolution, 21 June 2018
What people ask Google

Swamp sparrow
nature | Nature matters, 24 June 2018
Same song for 1500 years

Cannabis & epilepsy
psychoactive  | The Conversation 25 June 2018
What you need to know

London skies
science | BBC, 25 June 2018
Greenwich observatory to be reactivated

Upright
eco | Techly, 24 April, 2018
Short flights to be equipped with stand-up seats.

Reuced
science | The Telegraph, 26 April 2018
Meat eaters die faster

Heartthrob
nature | Return to Now, 29 April, 2018
Trees have a heart

Bon appétit!
eco | The Guardian, 30 April 2018
Beefing it up with lab-grown meat

Under attack
life | Health Impact News, 5 May, 2018
Baking Soda May Fight Autoimmune Diseases

Origins
science | Physics-Astronomy, 5 May 2018
Stephen Hawking: What existed before the Big Bang

Inside Mars
science | BBC News, 5 May 2018
Possible finding of the Insight Mission to Mars

Resisting Monsanto
eco | EcoWatch, 7 May 2018
Seeds cannot be patented

Analysis
culture | The Conversation, 9 May 2018
Economic mood deduced from musical mood

What to read
psychoactive  | Think Wilder, 10 May 2018
The best psychedelic blogs & publications

Eruptions
science | Nature, 17 May 2018
Hawaii volcano eruptions facilitate predictions

From old to new
eco | Eco Hustler, 17 May 2018
Trending: recycled silver jewelry

Resistant
science | New Atlas, 18 May 2018
New Antibiotic attacks superbugs

Of mice and men
psychoactive | The Mind Unleashed, 20 May 2018
Half a ton of weed missing in Argentina

Knowingly
psychoactive | PsyPost, 20 May 2018
Psilocybin improves face recognition in depressed patients

Precognition
science | Collective Evolution
Our bodies know before we do

Green Life
science | Science, 21 May 2018
Mostly plants here

Better breathing
science | Return to Now, 24 May 2018
Berries help you breathe

Safe
eco | The Open Mind, 25 May 2018
EU bans bee killing insecticides

Conservation
nature | Mongabay, 25 May 2018
Science turns to Artificial Intelligence to save the planet

Populated Amazon 
culture | Guardian, 27 March 2018
The Amazon once was home to millions of people.

Cancer Cure
science | US Health Times, 29 March 2018
Active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor in common lung cancer in half.

Quasi-organ
science | Times of Israel, 3 April 2018
Recently discovered interstitium may regulate cancer growth

Mind to machine
science | Kurzweil, 6 April 2018
Silent communication with your computer

Mind redefined
science | The Science News Reporter, 6 April 2018
The mind viewed as a quantum field

Whalespeak
science | Smithsonian, 6 April 2018
Cultures talking to whales

Time-lapse
eco | Science Alert, 10 April 2018
Global temperatures over 140 years

Charging Road
eco | Guardian, 12 April 2018
Sweden has built a first stretch of road charging electrical cars

Decolonising Science
science | Independent, 13 April 2018
Much of modern science is based on exploitation

Bacterial
nature | PhysOrg, 13 April 2018
Bacteria nourish young bees

Self-love
science | Psypost, 15 April 2018
On being your true self online

Entangled
science | Science Alert, 16 April 2018
Physicists break record of quantum entangled particles.

Breakthrough
eco  | Times, 17 April 2018
Enzyme capable of eating plastic

Replica
science | Sci News Reporter, 18 April 2018
Kepler Space Telescope discovers Earth-like planet

In corpore sano mens sana
life | Medical Express, 19 April 2018
Muscular strength indication of a healthy brain

Antartica
eco | The Conversation, April 2018
The importance of the 6th continent for our survival.

From science fiction to reality
science | Science & nonduality, April 2018
The holographic future by David Storoy

Without Coal
eco | IFL Science! 20 April 2018
England without coal for 55 hours

Clean Up
eco | Think Wilder, 21 April 2018
On Global Psychedelic Earth Day – Interview with Kwasi Adusei

Data breach
life  | Mother Jones, May/June 2018
The real story behind Cambridge Analytica

Ikea goes mycelium
eco | Eco Snippets, March 2018
The furniture retailer is considering using biodegradable “fungi packaging.”

Green Lego
eco | Global Citizen, 2 March 2018
Lego to start selling plant-based blocks this year.

Cleansing
culture | Lennyletter, 2 March 2018
Angry or frustrated – here’s what to do!

Shrooming
psychoactive | The Free Thought Project, 8 March 2018
Colorado takes steps to legalize psilocybin.

Cali rules
culture | Bloomsberg, 10 March 2018
Disobedience leads to success.

Psychedlic sounds
psychoactive | Alternet, 10 March 2018
How LSD makes music awesome.

Dancing despair away
culture | The Guardian, 14 March 2018
Ex ballerina Vania Masias helps street kids transform their circumstances.

Better sex
science | PsyPost, 14 March 2018
Sexual arousal activates more brain regions in women than in men.

Early democracies
culture | Science Mag, 15 March 2018
Various pre-modern societies around the world were organized collectively.

Forever means forever
science | Science Alert, 16 March 2018
The „Big Bang“ was not the origin of the universe.

Skin deep
science | Metro, 16 March 2018
Cannabis cures exzema and psoriasis.

Off the grid
eco  | The Conversation, 16 march 2018
Is it possible for many to live off the grid today?

Psyched out
culture | CBS News, 18 March 2018
Inside the US government secret psychic spy program.

Wetlands
eco | The Mind Unleashed, 19 March 2018
East Kolkata Wetlands sanitize the city.

DNA storage
eco | 23 March 2018
British scientists want to storage data on DNA code.

Rejuvenation
science| The Independent, 23 March 2018
Key symptoms of old age easily reversed.

Big money
science | Science, 23 March 2018
More funds for scientific endeavors approved in the US.

Ways to know
science | Medical Express, 23 March 2018t
Learning is not what we thought.

Done with Facebook
culture | The Futures Agency, 19 March 2018
Are paid social media networks the answer?

Sucking it up
eco | The Free Thought Project, 24 March 2018
New city bench absorbs pollution.

Protein molecules
science | Science Alert, 23 January 2018
Biologists answer the ultimate question about life, the universe and everything else.

Anarchy and utopia
life | National Geographic, 23 January 2018
In Notre-Dame-des Landes, France, a community of 300 people lives its beliefs.

Shroomers love nature
psychoactive | ZME Science, 25 January 2018
Magic mushrooms promote love of nature and demote adherence to authoritarian views.

Cell starving
science | Science Daily, 26 January 2018
Depletion of sugar causes cancer cell death.

Phenylethylamine
psychoactive | Psilocybin Technology, 27 January 2018
Magic mushrooms have multiple active components.

In the brain
science | National Public Radio, 31 January 2018
Scientists have found specialised brain cells in mice that appear to control anxiety levels.

Decoded
culture | News Artnet, 31 January 2018
No one has been able to read the mysterious Voynich manuscript – until now.

Mayan megacity
culture  | National Geographics, 1 February 2018
Laser technology reveals Maya cities were much larger than presumed.

Nomenclature of natural colors
culture | My Modern Met, 3 February 2018
Hand-written 19th century colour guide describes where shades are found in nature.

At your fingertips
culture | Open Culture, 7 February 2018
1,600 occult books available online.

Rating the media
culture | Slate, 8 February 2018
Facebook assesses the trustworthiness of media with only two questions.

Ecological civilisation
eco | EcoWatch, 9 February 2018
China on the road towards harmony between man and nature.

New threads
eco | The Guardian, 12 February 2018
Natural waste is the stuff new textiles are made of.

Antibiotic
science | Nature, 12 February 2018
Compounds found in various soils yield antibiotics resistant to multiple drugs.

Single Atom
science | PetaPixel, 12 February 2018
„Single Atom in an Ion Trap“ wins photo prize.

Better than vaccines
science | Health Impact News, 17 February 2018
Vitamin protects more effectively against the flu than vaccines.

Basic income promotes zeal
culture | Futurism, 17 February 2018
A recent study shows that people receiving a Universal Basic Income work harder than before.

Young blood – young brain
science  | Science Alert, 22 February 2018
Researchers have discovered an enzyme that helps rescue ageing brains from cognitive decline.

Smart lenses
science | Techly, 23 February 2018
Flexible contact lenses capable of measuring glucose levels in your tears are well and truly into the testing stage.

Cannabis protects
psychoactive | Health Impact News, 23. February 2018
The most recent study of cannabis’ protection against fatty liver disease.

Glioma interrupted
science | Futurist, 5 November 2017
According to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the growth of certain aggressive brain tumors can be halted by cutting off their access to a signaling molecule produced by the brain’s nerve cells.

Healing music
culture | Rolling Stone, 8 November 2017
Brian Eno teamed up with neuroscientist Mendel Kaelen to create an app for therapeutic music.

Dolphin alliance
eco | Ecohustler, 30 November 2017
In Scotland a broad alliance of institutions, towns, activists and concerned citizens are standing up for dolphin rights.

High potential
psychoactive | Mad in America, 27 December 2017
MDMA can become the entry point to foster a vibrant integrative psychiatry that evolves into more than just medication management.

Gut level
science | The Telegraph, 6 January 2018
Human brains are interconnected through a type of ‘wi-fi’ allowing us to pick up far more information about other people than we are aware of.

Mindreading
science | CNBC Make It, 8 January 2018
Scientists from Kyoto developed new techniques of “decoding” thoughts using deep neural networks (artificial intelligence).

A matter of trust
life | APS, 8 January 2018
A study suggests that women warm up faster to gay than to straight men.

Digital Afterlife
life | The Guardian, 9 January 2018
In the next three decades almost 3 billion people could leave their digital remains in the hands of technology companies.

Solar car
eco | Science Alert, 9 January 2018
Designed by the Dutch startup Lightyear, the “car that charges itself” can drive for months and has a 400-800 km range.

Alien or not
science | Scientific American, 9 January 2018
2017 was a banner year for scientists seeking alien life.

Cells and viruses
science | The Atlantic, 12 January 2018
The Arc gene, critical for animal learning, has an unexpected origin.

Negative Mass
science | Science Alert, 14 January 2018
Physicists have created the first device capable of generating particles that behave as if they had negative mass.

Flowering
science | BBC News, 14 January 2018
Scientists think they have the answer to a question that puzzled Charles Darwin: how flowers evolved and spread to become the dominant plants on Earth.

Buried prince
culture | The Independent, 16 January 2018
An untouched frozen burial mound believed to contain the remains of a Scythian royal as well as gold treasures has been discovered in Siberia.

Modern Eleusis
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich, 18 January 2018
Here you’ll find an excerpt of James Oroc’s new book, featured below.

Soft as a Rock
life | New Scientist, 18 January 2018
High testosterone levels make you love soft rock.

Simply effective
science | Nature, 18 January 2018
Blood test detects eight different kinds of cancer.

Submerged
science | Science Mag, 19 January 2018
A tiny device may help you hear better under water.

A Cat’s Choice
life | The Guardian, 22 January 2018
Cats show left and right hand preferences.