Category: good to know

Nighttime
psychoactive | Psyche | 28 July 21
Exploring your dreams after a trip helps you grow

The right kind of oil
psychoactive | boingboing | 29 July 21
CBD and its five benefits

Clean water
life | High Country News | 1 August 21
Reviving traditional Apsáalooke sources

Pacific Garbage Patch
nature | Ocean Cleanup | 2 August 2021
Follow the progress of System 002

Hydrogen power
eco | reasons to be cheerful | 2 August 21
On the island of Orkney renewables abound

Way out there 
psychoactive | Futurism | 3 August 21
Paul Stamets suggests astronauts shroom to boost morale in space

Battle of the galaxies
culture | Inverse | 4 August 21
Hubble reports a gravitational tug of war

Follow-up
nature | Inverse | 5 August 21
Satellites track whales from space

Energy 
science | Inverse | 6 August 21
Dyson spheres around black holes may serve alien civilizations

Green Lights
psychoactive | Psychedelic Spotlight | 7 August 21
Canada’s third clinical psilocybin study

Slow growth 
nature | The Guardian | 8 August 21
More time for the living world

Palliative care
nature | Filter | 9 August 21
Canadians consider legalizing psilocybin as end-of-life therapy

Based on donations
eco | reasons to be cheerful | 16 August 21
Human hair is a major factor in cleaning oil spills

Rejected 
eco | The Guardian | 18 August 21
Judge overthrows approval for huge oil project in Alaska

Messages
psychoactive  | Reset me | 18 August 21
When ayahuasca speaks

Honored
culture | npr | 23 August 21
Josephine Baker to be buried in the Panthéon in Paris

Classical spirituality
culture | Psyche | 25 August 21
Sprinkle a little philosophy on your life

Stamets stack
psychoactive |  | Double Blind | 27 August 21
Can microdosing shrooms really change your brain?

Less suicidal
psychoactive | Reset me | 31 August 21
Psilocybin reduces risk of despair for terminally ill

LSD
psychoactive | The Beckley Foundation | 2021
Is microdosing just placebo? Insights from the Beckley Research Program

A forest in the sky
eco | Forbes | 1 July 2021
Milanese architect builds a different kind of tree houses

Snake staff
culture | Smithsonian Magazine | 2 July 2021
Ancient shaman’s attribute discovered in Finland

Drug tourism
psychoactive | NYT | 5 July 2021
Inside a peyote pilgrimage

Depression
psychoactive | YaleNews | 5 July 2021
Psilocybin spurts grow of lost neural connections

Journeying
nature | High Country News | 7 July 2021
California budgets big money for wildlife crossings

Dreamtime
culture | Double Blind | 7 July 2021
Heritage of ayahuasca art

DMT
psychoactive | Vice | 9 July 2021
A businessman’s high – tripping on your lunch break

Culture
psychoactive | NYT | 10 July 2021
Michael Pollan on drug use present and future

Common voice
culture | reasons to be cheerful | 13 July 2021
Siri is learning hundreds of new languages

Superpower
eco | Inverse | 14 July 2021
Hemp pulls “forever chemicals” out of the ground

Perseid Shower
nature | Smithsonian | 16 July 2021
Yearly spectacle of ‘fireball’ meteors peaks mid-August

High life
psychoactive | The Conversation | 16 July 2021
A historic perspective of human drug use

Origins
psychoactive | I Inverse | 16 July 2021
Where cannabis came from

Let it grow
nature | The Converation | 22 July 2021
A rewilded farm field in England shows the way

Closures
psychoactive | The Guardian | 27 July 2021
Barcelona cannabis clubs face new legal hassles despite positive reception

Reintegration
psychoactive | Tablet | 27 July 2021
Judaism’s Psychedelic Renaissance

Liberty caps
psychoactive | Double Blind | 27 May 2021
Psilocybe semilanceata are among the most potent magic mushrooms

Psychedelic therapy
psychoactive | The Guardian | 29 May 2021
Australian psychologists are signing up for training

Ketamine
psychoactive | New York Times | 30 May 2021
Treated for depression – a patient’s experience

Dammed
eco | pv-magazine | 1 June 2021
Swiss photovoltaic project at eight-thousand feet soon operational

Boom
eco | New York Times | 2 June 2021
Portugal produces more bicycles than any other European country

Decriminalization
psychoactive | Boingboing | 2 June 2021
California senate approves bill making possession of psychedelics legal

Partnership
eco | The Ocean Cleanup | 3 June 2021
Coca Cola lends the Ocean Cleanup a helping hand

Rewilding
eco | High Country News | 4 June 2021
Bringing the buffalo back to restore biodiversity

Allies
psychoactive | The Guardian | 5 June 2021
Islamic experiments with canna production include medicinal use

Commodification
psychoactive | High Country News | 7 June 2021
A hallucinogenic toad in peril

Rewarded
psychoactive | abc News | 8 June 2021
Joints for getting jabs in Washington state

Victory
eco | Mother Jones | 9 June 2021
Keystone pipeline will not be built

Telomere-to-telomere
science | The Atlantic | 11 June 2021
Human genome finally completely revealed

Boxing
psychoactive | The Guardian | 14 June 2021
Mike Tyson: Psychedelics help with brain trauma

Rites of passage
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 16 June 2021
Can psychedelics help make dying easier?

On the nose
science | Quanta Magazine | 21 June 2021
The secret of smell receptors revealed

Hairy
science | Science Daily | 22 June 2021
Stress can make your hair go gray but – it’s reversible

Flashbacks?
science | The Conversation | 22 June 2021
Why some people’s mental images are stronger than other’s

Harm reduction
psychoactive | New York Times | 27 June 2021
US congress approves funds to help addicts use safely

On the move
nature | The Conversation | 29 April 2021
Ocean crossing animals made evolution possible

Closing time
eco | Mother Jones | 1 May 2021
New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant is shut down

Relief
psychoactive | New York Times | 3 May 2021
MDMA proven to help with PTSD

Protection
nature | The Conversation | 5 May 2021
Local trees help you stay healthy

Hewn in stone
culture | BBC Future | 6 May 2021
How cities will fossilize

Psychiatry
psychoactive | New York Times | 9 May 2021
the psychedelic Revolution is changing things for the better

Recovery
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 10 May 2021
A twelve-step psychedelic program is changing addicts’ lives

One stream at a time
nature | Hakai Magazine | 10 May 2021
Apple and Tiffany are paying to restore “Salmon Gold”

More than promises
eco | Bloomberg News | 13 May 2021
Paris to ban most traffic in the city center starting 2022

Cannabis
psychoactive | Jerusalem Post | 14 May 2021
Startup analyses source and quality to follow delivery per blockchain

Cannabis II
psychoactive | Mic Check | 16 May 2021
How microdosing for anxiety works

Eating with your eyes
science | BPS Digest, 17 May 2021
Food tastes better if you first look at it

Receptors
science | Reset Me | 18 May 2021
How the endocannabinoid system works

Acid tested
psychoactive | The Guardian | 19 May 2021
Brain scans show how LSD opens the doors of perception

Kitty kryptonite
psychoactive | The Conversation | 21 May 2021
Why catnip attracts felines large and small

Equality
life | Bloomberg CityLab | 24 May 2021
French cities adopt gendered budgets

Treatment
psychoactive | Reset Me | 25 May 2021
Women more open to benefit from psychedelic therapy

Critical
life | Die Zeit | 25 May 2021
An interview with Francis Fukuyama about American identity (in English)

Vaccination
science | New York Times | 26 May 2021
New study shows immune cells against Covid may survive for years

Green flying
eco | The Guardian | 27 May 2021
Short distance airships could reduce CO2 output by 90 percent

They too
eco | The Guardian | 27 May 2021
Court rules government must protect young Australians from climate crisis

Trippers are doing it for themselves
psychoactive | Independent | 28 March 2021
Young psychonauts are more sophisticated drug users than prior generations

Wellspring
psychoactive | Reset-me | 30 March 2021
Coca leaf as an agent for change

Louvre online
culture | Smithsonian Magazine | 30 March 2021
480’000 art works for your eyes only

Green rush
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 1 April 2021
New Mexico – one more state legalizes cannabis

Saving the West
nature | High Country News | 7 April 2021
Arizona County pays farmers not to develop their land or sell water rights

Touching
life | The Conversation | 7 April 2021
We need to hug and kiss again

Particular
science | New York Times | 7 April 2021
Meet a muon at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Healed by fungi
psychoactive | Neo-Life | 8 April 2021
Mushroom’s role in medicine as chemical facilitator

Let the sunshine in
eco | Futurism | 14 April 2021
Installing solar power does not have to complicated or overly expensive

A kind of magic
psychoactive | Reuters | 15 April 2021
Mushrooms at least as effective as antidepressants

Research junkie
psychoactive | Tablet | 18 April 2021
Raphael Metchoulan, Israeli godfather of grass, ninety and not stopping

Comeback
psychoactive | Toronto Star | 19 April 2021
LSD as a treatment for substance abuse, anxiety and depression

Psilocybin
psychoactive | The Guardian | 20 April 2021
Psychedelic drugs lead to paradigm change in the way we view depression

Table manners
science | boingboing | 20 April 2021
The fork and knife illusion, a transparent experiment

New image
culture | Reasons to be cheerful | 20 April 2021
African Wikipedia editors rock their world

Cannabis
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 20 April 2021
Legalization, state by US state

Regeneration
science | New York Times | 22 April 2021
Scar tissue avoided in mice – will it work for us?

Psilocybin & Bitcoin
psychoactive | The Guardian | 26 April 2021
Can one lead to a better understanding of the other?

Corals
nature | The Guardian | 1 March 2021
Risk of extinction less high than previously thought

Protection
nature | New Big 5 | 3 March 2021
Five things you can do to protect the world’s wildlife

Astronomy
science | New York Times | 6 March 2021
Pictorial overview of this year’s major celestial events

Salvaged
culture | Mother Jones | 8 March 2021
John Coltrane’s house in Philadelphia remains standing

Tall buildings
culture | Reasons to be cheerful | 8 March 2021
The wooden skyscraper is here

Food security
nature | Hakai Magazine | 9 March 2021
Meet the sea beans aka as sea asparagus or pickleweed

Protoplanet
science | Science Alert | 9 March 2021
Meteorite found in Algeria is older than the earth

World’s largest market
psychoactive | 10 March 2021
Mexico set to legalize the recreational use of cannabis

Sweet smell of success
psychoactive | The Conversation | 10 March 2021
Growing cannabis at home on the rise worldwide

Runner’s high
psychoactive | The New York Times | 10 March 2021
It’s the endocannabinoids, stupid!

Pandemic diaries
life | PrzeKrój | 11 March 2021
Living instead of surviving, by Robert Rient

Their firs time
culture | Smithsonian Magazine | 11 March 2021
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam features classical women artists in ‘gallery of honor’

Thinking huts
life | Smithsonian Magazine | 15 March 2021
NGO founded by fifteen-year-old builds 3D-printed school in Madagascar

The cure
psychoactive | The Guardian | 13 March 2021
First street clinic offering psychedelic-assisted therapy opens in England

Cure
psychoactive | The New York Times | 18 March 2021
Oregon’s Psilocybin Advisory Board to supervise therapeutic use

Awesome
life | Inverse | 19 March 2021
Sense of the sublime deciphered with immersive VR technology

Rewilding
nature | New Big 5 | 19 March 2021
Restoring nature from Argentina to Romania

MDMA
psychoactive | Forbes | 21 March 2021
Integration is essential in successful treatment

Debunking
science | The Conversation | 22 March 2021
Emotional intelligence is a factor in recognizing fake news

Cannabis & Covid
psychoactive | reset.me | 23. March 2021
An overview of the approaches so far taken

Psychedelic industry
psychoactive | Lexpert Business of Law | 23 March 2021
Will Canada legalize magic mushrooms soon?

It’s a deal
psychoactive | The Guardian | 25 March 2021
New York finds a way to legalize recreational cannabis

Industrially
psychoactive | Washington Post, 24 January 2021
Is the cannabis business an agent for change?

NEO Exchange
psychoactive | Horizons | 28 January 2021
Psychedelic stock index PSY launched in Canada

Kratom
psychoactive | Inverse | 31 January 2021
Risks and benefits of a legal high

Affordable
life | Futurism | 1 February 2021
First 3D-printed house erected in the US

Toad juice
psychoactive | Psychedelics Spotlight | 3 February 2021
Synthetic 5-meO-DMT study at the Beckley Foundation

Historic
eco | The Guardian, 3 February 2021
French State condemned for failure to address climate change

Vitamin K
psychoactive | Inverse | 4 February 2021
Ketamine, depression and astrocytes

Worlds apart
science | Futurism | 8 February 2021
Radio telescope delivers close-ups of the surface of remote planets

Renewables
eco | Clean Technica | 8 February 2921
One hundred percent of new US energy from solar and wind

Collectively
psychoactive | Vogue | 9 February 2021
Combining anti-racism with plant medicine

Farming
science | The Conversation |11 February 2021
Pigs could play video games to be less bored

One Planet
eco | Reasons to be cheerful |12 February 2021
In Wales, residents get their “global fair share” of resources

LSD
psychoactive | Double Blind | 15 February 2021
Microdosing promises results in the treatment of chronic pain

Night life
science | Inverse, 19 February 2021
Why people have lucid dreams

Agriculture
eco | pv-magazine | 20 February 2021
Solar power’s big potential for farming

Mescaline
psychoactive | Psychedelic Spotlight | 22 February 2021
How an ancient cactus became future medicine

Ibogaine
psychoactive | Psychedelic Spotlight | 24 February 2021
What you need to know about treatment

Kambo
psychoactive | New York Times | 1 January 2021
The purge with the surge… in self-confidence

Kindred feeling
psychoactive | Reset Me | 5 January 2021
Psychedelics and nature connection

Maintenance
science | Inverse | 2 January 2020
Self-control helps determine physical aging

Spider web
Science | The Guardian | 4 January 2021
Gun spouts protective new skin for burn victims

Resolutions
science | The Conversation | 5 January 2021
Eight ways to quit smoking this year

Writing
culture | Smithsonian Magazine | January/February 2021
The invention of the alphabet

New York
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 6 January 2020
Andrew Cuomo proposes to legalize cannabis

Classic
culture | Smithsonian Magazine | 6 January 2021
Ancient temple of Aphrodite discovered in Turkey

Virtual tripping
psychoactive | Future | 6 January 2020
DMT-like states elicited in neural networks

Dog tales
science | Inverse | 7 January 2021
How wolves became man’s best friend

Sentient beings
nature  | The Guardian | 8 January 2021
French bean plants show signs of intent

Blossoming
psychoactive | Reset | 10 January 2021
On the evolution of ayahuasca

Declassified
culture | Futurism | 11 January 2021
CIA shares UFO documents online

Transformation
culture | Smithsonian | 12 January 2021
Paris’ Champs-Elysées go green(er)

Free weed
psychoactive | Futurism | 12 January 2021
DC Marijuana Justice plans to distribute vaccine goody bags

Inclusive
culture | BoingBoing | 13 January 2021
Goths live longer thanks to their community

Repatriation
culture | Atlas Obscura | 14 January 2021
Maori ancestral heads returned

Growing
eco | pv-magazine | 15 January 2021
First transparent photovoltaic greenhouse built in Australia

Not about money
eco | Reasons to be cheerful | 18 January 2021
New Zealand increases recycling rates by rewarding people

New Zealand III
psychoactive | The Guardian | 20 January 2021
No more hunting for cannabis fields from the air

Energy
eco | Futurism | 22 January 2021
First hydrogen battery for households

Default network
psychoactive | Reset Me | 22 January 2021
How psychedelics open the Doors of Perception

Spellbinding
culture | The Conversation | 23 January 2021
This history of cheese and witchcraft

Prosocial
psychoactive | Inverse | 26 January 2021
Can LSD help people make friends?

Discrimination
psychoactive | CTV News | 26 January 2021
Psychedelic drugs help treat PTSD caused by racism

Rejuvenation
science | BoingBoing | 28 November 2020
New process claims to reverse aging in blood cells

Goldman Prize 2020
eco | The Guardian | 30 November 2020
And the winner is… the environment

Sistine Chapel of the Ancients
science | Smithsonian | 1 December 2020
Tens of thousands of rock paintings found in Columbia

Astronomy
Science | The Guardian | 3 December 2020
Most detailed map of the milky way to date

Rehabilitation
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 3 December 2020
UN remove cannabis from list of dangerous drugs

Rehablitation II
psychoactive | Microdose | 4 December 2020
US congress votes to federally decriminalize cannabis

Salt water
nature | The Conversation | 7 December 2020
Oceans 21 explores past and future of the ocean

Medi(t)ation
life | The Guardian | 7 December 2020
Ugandan monk brings Buddhism to Africa to heal trauma

Galactic visitors
science | Jerusalem Post | 8 December 2020
Former general confirms aliens exist and contacts have been made

End of life assistance
psychoactive | Psyche | 8 December 2020
Psychedelics help people die in peace

Musical memory
science | Digest British Psychological Society | 8 December 2020
We remember voices better than instruments

Relationships
psychoactive | MAPS | 8 December 2020
Pilot trial assesses MDMA-assisted couples’ therapy

New gold rush
life | Futurism | 9 December 2020
Space will soon touch upon all aspects of our lives

Macrodosing
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 10 December 2020
Should we take a little more?

The spirit molecule
psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 10 December 2020
DMT to be researched for its potential in treating depression

Dark side of the moon 
science | Inverse | 13 December 2020
Chinese lunar probe Cahnge’e4 returns with more data than any other

Less pollution
science | NASA | 14 December 2020
Seeing the Covid-19 pandemic from space

NAND
culture | BoingBoing | 15 December 2020
Building computer logic while gaming

Big business
psychoactive | The Guardian | 16 December 2020
Cannabis: we’re talking billions now

Come-back
eco | Reasons to be cheerful | 21 December 2020
London is “Rewilding”

Mobility
life | Ozy | 27 December 2020
Working from an Island soon (oh yes, please!)

A blast
psychoactive | Smithsonian | 20 October 2017
When activists on acid tried to levitate the Pentagon

Back to the roots
psychoactive | Neo.Life | 29 October 2020
The decolonization of psychedelics

New technology
science | Neo.Life | 1 November 2020
Focused ultrasound technology to help many patients with multiple diseases

Oregon
psychoactive | Mother Jones | 3 November 2020
First to legalize access to psilocybin

Columbia
nature | Mongabay | 4 November 2020
Indigenous leaders mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon

Opening
psychoactive | BoingBoing | 4 November 2020
Every cannabis initiative passed on election day

New evidence
science | The Conversation | 5 November 2020
Prehistoric women were hunters and gatherers

Hard drugs
life | reasons to be cheerful | 10 November 2020
Oregon takes a less punitive approach to addictive substances

Sanctuary
nature | Smithsonian | 16 November 2020
Tristan da Cunha creates largest Marine Protected Area of the Atlantic

Edible landscapes
life | Smithsonian | 16 November 2020
The future of public parks

Psychedelic past
culture | Derek Beres | 17 November 2020
The heathen roots of Christian rituals

CBD
psychoactive | The Guardian | 19 November 2020
French ban illegal, European Court rules

Revealed
science | Smithsonian | 23 November 2020
The secrets of the Blue Ring Nebula

Cave art
science | Science Magazine | 23 November 2020
Six natural ways to enhance your trip.

Electric airplanes
culture | Quartz | 23 November 2020
How to fly without kerosene – an in-depth look

Faith
psychoactive | Psyche Magazine | 23 November 2020
Psychedelics as a route to spirituality

Amazon
eco | Mongabay | 24 November 2020
Farmers and rangers paid to keep trees standing

Alien art
culture | IFLS | 24 November 2020
Mysterious metal monolith discovered in Utah desert

Dr. Fungus
psychoactive | Przekroj | November 2020
The Medicinal Properties of Mushrooms