Category: good to know

Plastic
eco | Guardian, 27 November 2019
How to shrink your footprint

Too big to fail
science | Live Science, 30 November 2019
Chinese scientists discover gigantic black hole

Futuristic
culture | Bain Pickings, December 2019
The anatomical drawings of Paul Sougy

Price war
culture | Guardian, 4 December 2019
French shoppers undercut milk cartel

Missing
science | Live Science, 5 December 2019
Nineteen planets without dark matter

What to like
life | BPS Research Digest, 10 December 2019
Ten good traits in each of us

Aviation
science | Guardian, 11 December 2019
First commercial electric airplane takes off in Vancouver

Talking heads
science | Inverse, 11 December 2019
Human(oid)s to have vocalised much earlier than assumed

Cave art
culture | NYT, 11 December 2019
Indonesia: earliest hunting scenes show hybrid beings

Snap
eco | Inverse, 11 December 2019
Supersponge absorbs oil spills but repels water

Self-medication
psychoactive | Mic, 13 December 2019
Is marihuana an anti-depressant?

Major step
life | Inverse, 16 December 2019
Marihuana no longer “drug of abuse” in baseball league

Bad news
science | Inverse, 16 December 2019
Vaping damages your lungs

Aliens
science | Independent, 16 December 2019
Unexplained lights in the sky could be communication structures

Blame game
eco | The Economist, 19 December 2019
The green impact on consumer habits

ASMR
culture | Mic, 19 December 2019
Sounds to soothe you

Construction
eco  | The Economist, 19 December 2019
Transparent solar cells to glaze office blocks

Conservation
eco  | Ecohustler, 19 December 2019
Stand for the trees

Rebooted
science | Army Times, 20 December 2019
Soldiers’ footwear to generate electricity

Arbor Tree Foundation

Ear Hustle

Driving
science | Jalopnik, 1 November 2019
Japan develops wooden car

Weight loss
psychoactive | Rolling Stone, 1 November 2019
THCV is the new «skinny pot»

Medical cannabis
psychoactive | Guardian, 3 November 2019
Largest trial in Europe to follow 20’000 UK patients

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Ecohustler, 6 November 2019
Health benefits of magic mushrooms

PTSD
psychoactive | Psypost, 8 November 2019
Cannabis reduces depression and suicide

Affordable
eco | Bloomberg, 8 November 2019
Prices for wind and solar power have dropped considerably

Compensation
eco | Guardian, 8 November 2019
Huge growth in carbon offsetting

Sleep
culture | Brain Pickings, 10 November 2019
How Patti Smith deals with insomnia

Attraction
science | The Telegraph, 10 November 2019
Scientist finds way to pull disease from blood with magnets

Three Treatments
psychoactive | NYT, 11 November, 2019
England and Wales allow medical cannabis in specific cases

Vaping
psychoactive | Futurism, 12 November, 2019
Apparent cause for vape lung found

New Green Deal
eco | Jewish Currents, 12 November 2019
What environmental policy might look like

Otherwordly
science | Gizmodo, 13 November 2019
Antimatter as a portal to a dark universe

Cutting edge
culture | Futurism, 15 November 2019
Holograms you can hear and feel

Behrouz Boochani
nature | Guardian, 15 November 2019
Manus’ most famous prisoner free at last

DMT
psychoactive | Inverse, 19 November 2019
Like entering an alternative realtiy

Cannabis
psychoactive | Rolling Stone, 20 November 2019
Legalisation bill passes First House Committee vote

Connected
psychoactive | Aeon, 17 September, 2019
Psychedelics offer a sense of belonging

Cannabis Café
psychoactive | MACH, 29 September 2019
First US coffee shop opens in LA

Stonehenge reloaded
culture | Guardian, 2 September 2019
Drought uncovers megalithic monument in Spain 

Dark energy
science | Futurism, 2 October 2019
Some black holes are not what they seem

Affordable housing
life | LA Times, 2 October 2019
California public banks provide non-profit loans

Gathering plastic
science | The Ocean Clean-up, 2 October 2019
It’s finally working!

Sailing
eco | Guardian, 2 October 2019
Thirty-six activists on their way to climate summit

Exoskeleton
science | Guardian 4 October 2019
Paralysed man uses his mind to walk again

Zebrows
nature | Plos, 6. October 2019
Cows painted like zebras avoid insect bites

Hydrogen
eco | pv magazine, 8 October 2019
Green energy for Australia

Addiction
life | Economist, 10 October 2019
Safe-injection sites save lives

Adventures in Psychedelia
psychoactive | NY Review of Books, 11 October 2019
Helen Joyce takes LSD

Operation Silver Frog
eco | pv magazine, 12 October 2019
Green hydrogen for Europe

Out there
science | Futurism, 12 October 2019
Swiss Nobel laureate believes in aliens

Communiucation
nature | MACH, 13 October 2019!
Interspecies internet wants to lend a voice to animals

Bonds
eco | pv magazine, 18 October 2019
Green investments pass one trillion mark

Long hair
science | Guardian, 23 October 2019
The forgotten past of Soviet hippies 

Quantum battery
psychoactive | Futurism, 25 October 2019
Revolution in energy storage mapped out

Mega!
life |  Guardian, 1 September 2019
Bicycles for refugees and others

Soulful
life | NYT, 1 September 2019
Ram Dass interview

Bingeing
nature | Guardian, 2 September 2019
Cockatoos open wheelies and turn on taps

Artificial enamel
science | Futurism, 3 September 2019
Chinese scientists create gel to fix teeth

Studies
psychoactive | NYT, 4 September 2019
Johns Hopkins Uni opens Center for Psychedelic Studies

Stroke relief
science | MACH, 5 September 2019
Tiny robot to clean cerebral blood vessels

Twitter
nature | CNN, 5 September 2019
Squirrels take their clues from birds

Booster
culture | BPS Research Digest, 9 September 2019
How to be more creative (podcast)

Pre-science
science | Futurism, 10 September 2019
Brain implants to make us telepathic

Update
science | Mach, 12 September 2019
Universe rather younger?

Legal weed
psychoactive | Merry Jane, 13 September 2019
150’000 move to Colorado

Benefits of CBD
science | Guardian, 14 September 2019
More and better studies needed

Spaced out
life | MACH, 14 September 2019
First space hotel to open 2022

Massive
science | Physorg, 16 September 2019
Largest neutrino to date

5-MeO-DMT
psychoactive | Psy Post, 18 September 2019
Persistent improvement in life satisfaction and psycho-pathology tested

Reparations
psychoactive | Forbes, 19 September 2019
Victims of the war on drugs to be compensated.

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Quartz, 19 September 2019
The world’s first research center for mushrooms in Jamaica

Legalisation
psychoactive | Guardian, 25 September 2019
Cannabis in Canberra

Forests
nature | Mongabay, 25 September 2019
Benefits of protecting and restoring intact forests by Lauren E. Oakes

Greening
eco |  Guardian, 29 July 2019
Ethiopia plants 350’000 trees in one day

Thamugadi
culture | National Geographic, 30 July 2019
A Roman city in the Algerian desert

Unconstrained
eco | Economist, 1 August 2019
Fewer and fewer cars in European cities

Decriminalising
psychoactive | Cannabis Now, 6 August 2019
First & 2nd offenders no longer criminalised in Ireland

Legalisation
psychoactive | Guardian, 7 August 2019
Luxemburg first when it comes to cannabis

Communication
nature | NYT, 8 August 2019
Why sharks glow in the dark

Biodiversity
eco | Mongabay, 9 August 2019
Species diversity highest on indigenous land

Under your skin
science | National Geographic, 15 August 2019
New sensory organ simply feels pain

Alcoholism
psychoactive | Guardian, 19 August 2019
MDMA reduces relapses

Cargo
science | NBC News, 19 August 2019
Return of the zeppelin

Through the mail
psychoactive | Double Blind,19 August 2019
Canadian psilocybin dispensaries

Ethics
science | Independent, 20 August 2019
About interspecies organ donation

Microdosing
psychoactive | Merry Jane, 20 August 2019
First clinical trials on their way in New Zealand

Stalemate
life | Technology Review, 21 August 2019
Old age is an outdated concept

Pain
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment, 21 August 2019
Marijuana flower best alleviates physical suffering

CRISPR
science | Nature, 22 August 2019
Smart materials deliver drugs and sense biological info

Natural pesticides
science | Truth Theory, 22 August 2019
Fungi to save the environment

Same old
psychoactive  |  Aeon, June 2019
Why is psychedelic culture dominated by privileged old men?

No more vaping
life | Tech Crunch, 25 June 2019
San Francisco bans all e-cigarettes until officially permitted

Reclassification
psychoactive | Guardian, 26 June 2019
International call to do drugs more justice

Heartfelt
science | MIT Review, 27 June 2019
Remote identification by laser

At the top
psychoactive | Guardian, 29 June 2019
The world biggest growers

The Pharao Nastasen
culture | National Geographics, 2 July 2019
Submerged tomb of Nubian black pharaoh explored

Green Fairy
psychoactive | Guardian, 4 July 2019
New Zealand to hold cannabis referendum

Mobility restored
science | The Lancet, 4 July 2019
Transferred nerves let paralysed patient move their hands

More trees
eco | Guardian, 4 July 2019
Worldwide forestation to tackle climate crisis

Up the nose
culture | Economist, 7 July 2019
Cocaine production at historic high

Somniferous
psychoactive | Rolling Stones, 5 July 2019
Majority tokes to sleep

Uneasy
psychoactive | Guardian, 8 July 2019
Marihuana and anxiety

Chameleon Theory
science | Phys Org, 8 July 2019
How gravity may also work

Micro-dosing
psychoactive | Guardian, 13 July 2019
Overcoming grief with mushrooms, a testimonial

Cosmic tango
science | Futurism, 15 July 2019
First picture ever of quantum entanglement

Microdosing research
psychoactive | The Conversation, 16 July 2019
Studies show improvement in mood, concentration and creativity

Neuropsychology
science | Brainpickings, 19 July 2019
Altered States of Consciousness by Maria Popova

Microlife
science | IFL Science, 24 July 2019
Organic apples contain many beneficial bacteria

trenuous
psychoactive  |  WSU News, 29 May 2019
Gene sequencing of cannabis allows for quality control

Ancient rites
culture | IFL Science, 30 May 2019
Bronze age shaman skeleton reveals astonishing accoutrements

Whale sightings
nature | The Observer, 3 June 2019
Huge increase in humpback population in New York

Life goes on
nature | Guardian, 4 June 2019
Calf born to endangered orca pod

V-shaped
science | CNN Travel, 4 June 2019
KLM funds fuel-efficient new aircraft

Missing link?
culture | Nature, 5 June 2019
Neo Siberians may have engendered First Nations

Legit
psychoactive | Eater, 5 June 2019
Oakland second US city to decriminalise psilocybin

Recognition
culture | Rolling Stone, 5 June 2019
Black Sabbath honoured for earth quake relief in Armenia

Galactic web
science | National Geographic, 6 June 2019
Evidence found that the universe resembles a huge net

Mental health
psychoactive | Independent, 9 June
Magic mushrooms could replace antidepressants

Anomaly
science | Physorg, 10 June 2019
Metallic mass discovered under largest moon crater

Limited Habitat
science | The Astrophysical Journal, 10 June 2019
Alien life is probably rarer than expected

Historical
psychoactive | Guardian, 12 June 2019
Oldest evidence of cannabis smoking found in China

Unionised
psychoactive | Rolling Stone, 14 June 2019
United Food and Commercial Workers major force in marihuana politics

Sleep tight
science | Inverse, 17 June 2019
CBD and dreaming

Giving back
eco | Food Business News, 17 June 2019
Agro-giant pledges 30 million to protect the Amazon

Ecotown
eco | Guardian, 18 June 2019
Eskilstuna – the world capital of recycling

Billions of trees
eco | 19 June 2019
Will planting them save our planet?

New species
nature | CNN, 20 June 2019
Meet Corsica’s new cat-fox

Africa’s lost kingdoms
culture | New York Review of Books, 27 June 2019
An article by Howard W. French

Climate neutral cars
eco |  Futurism, 30 April 2019
Gasoline to be produced from CO2

Not enough to get high
life | Guardian, 2 May 2019
Cocaine and ketamine found in all shrimp in County Suffolk, GB

Taking over
eco | Futurism 2 May 2019
In the US renewables beat coal for the first time

Doing it for themselves
psychoactive | Guardian, 3 May 2019
Mothers microdosing mushrooms

Sociobiology
science | Quanta, 5 May 2019
An Interview with Edward O. Wilson

A higher high
science | Rolling Stone, 7 May 2019
The best strains of cannabis

Three months
culture | Wired, 7 May 2019
Put a cap on Google storing your web and app activity

Cold water immersion
life | Guardian, 8 May 2019
Meet the Ice Man (if you haven’t already)

The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide
psychoactive | Podcast
Tim Ferris talks with James Fadiman

Carl Sagan’s Dream
science | Planetary News, 13 May 2019
Crowd-funded LightSail 2 to be launched next month

Fly me to the moon
science | Ars Technica, 14 May 2019
Artemis to visit the planet she rules

Shrooming in Denver
psychoactive | Guardian, 18 May 2019
Colorado’s decrimininalization paves the way for legal medical use elsewhere

Hungry
nature | Science, 20 May 2019
Tiny microbes eat plastic ocean waste

Single dose
psychoactive | Expanded Consciousness, 20 May 2019
Psilocybin relieves depression in cancer patients

Mitigating Factor
science | The American Journal of Psychiatry, 21 May 2019
CBD could curb heroin addiction

Earth-like
science | Max Planck Institute, 22 May 2019
Eighteen exoplanets discovered

Collaboration
science | Nature, 22 May 2019
Europe’s cross-border science programs

Forestry
eco | Mongabay, 23 May 2019
What kind of trees benefit the climate most?

The Ocean Cleanup
eco | 24 May 2019
System design upgraded

Hybrids
nature | Independent, 25 May 2019
European wolves and dogs interbreed

Upshot
Psychoactive |  Futurism, 26 March 2019
First automatic hemp farm

Cache
nature | National Geographics, 28 March 2019
Fossils galore

Megaparty
eco | Guardian, 28 March 2019
A cleaner Kumbh Mela

Financially
psychoactive | Futurism, 28 March 2019
How to bank on marihuana

New HIV therapy
science | UPMC, 3 April 2019
Virus drawn out of hiding and neutralised

Oil Fund
eco | Guardian, 5 April 2019
Norway comes clean(er)

Immaculate
nature | Mongobay, 5 April 2019
Double – egg and foetus – lizard birth

Contained
science | The Next Web, 5 April 2019
Headbands for better learning

In Synch
science  | Wired, 7 April 2019
The chimeras of synchronisation

Liberating
culture | Guardian, 8 April 2019
A humorous battle against populism

Accurately
science | Science Daily, 8 April 2019
Dogs detect cancer in blood

Ketamine
psychoactive | Scientific American, 12 April 2019
The science behind changing depressed brains

Canada
psychoactive | Guardian, 17 April 2019
Not enough legal weed to go around

Plastic
eco | National Geographics, 18 April 2019
On making the cosmetic industry sustainable

US
psychoactive | Rolling Stone, 19 April 2019
Boom in illicit marihuana as a result of legalisation

Upcycling/Recycling
eco | Wired 22 April 2019
These products go easy on the environment

Composting
eco | Futurism, 23 April 2019
State of Washington about to allow human composting

Nanofiber yarn
science | MIT News, 23 April 2019
Twisted fibers coated with living cells to assist healing

Decoding speech
science | Scientific American, 24 April 2019
Restoring communication for those who cannot speak

Cosmology
science | CNN, 25 April 2019
Universe expands nine percent faster than expected

Research
psychoactive | Imperial College of Science, London, 26 April 2019
Imperial College launches Centre for Psychedelics Research