Category: good to know

Paul Stamets
psychoactive | Whalebone Magazine | Volume 7
The effect of psychedelics on the psyche. An interview.

The anti-munchies
psychoactive | New York Times | 1 January 22
Dieting with cannabis

Special access
psychoactive | Psychedelic Spotlight | 4 January 22
Canada allows restricted drugs for psychedelic therapy

Earthships
eco | Washington Post | 4 January 22
Off-grid and climate resilient

Tripping
psychoactive |  Psychedelic Spotlight | 4 January 22
On the value of the psychedelic experience

Medically
psychoactive |  Medscape | 9 January22
Psychedelic medicines for mood disorders

Pushing back
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 11January 22
Global coalition for the rescheduling of psilocybin under international rules

Mind manifest
psychoactive | Phi Magazine | 11January 22
The new philosophy of psychedelics

California
psychoactive | Filter | 12 January 22
On the decriminalization of psychedelics in the Golden State

Power play
psychoactive | Cambridge University Press | 12 January 22
Hallucinogens, alcohol, and leadership strategies in the ancient Peruvian Andes

Harm reduction
psychoactive | Mad in America | 15 January 22
Peer support for psychedelic experiences

Ondalinda
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 17 January 22
Burning Man’s more exclusive cousin

Oregon
psychoactive | Lucid News | 22 January 22
How to implement the facilitated use of psilocybin

Cetaceans
nature | Inverse | 24 January 22
How whales eat without drowning

Heaven’s radio
science | Inverse | 26 January 22
Source of mysterious signals discovered

Safe injection
life | boingboing | 1 December 21
New York is opening the first site in the US

Serenade
nature | reasons to be cheerful | 1 December 21
Fish and corals benefit from friendly sounds

Revealing
psychoactive  | APA PsycNet | 3 December 21
Spiritual experiences in psychedelic-assisted therapy

Shrinks & shrooms
psychoactive | The Walrus | 6 December 21
Medical promises of psilocybin, and why is it still illegal?

Mysticism & weirdness in science
psychoactive |  Microdosing | 6 December 21
Five questions for Joost Breeksema

Hitchhikers
eco | Smithsonian Magazine | 6 December 21
The big garbage patch hosts a variety of organisms

Hydrogen
eco | pv magazine | 7 December 21
Chile, China, Australia, and Spain are global leaders

Psylocybe allenii
psychoactive | Double Blind | 8 December 21
Hiding in plain sight on the West Coast

I’ll see you in my dreams…
science |  PrzeKrój | December 21
An introduction to lucid dreaming

Sustainable
eco | reasons to be cheerful | 9 December 21
Cargo ships are going green(er)

Big business
psychoactive | The Observer | 12 December 21
The rich get richer, and the poor stay poor (L. Cohen)

Renovation
culture | The Observer | 14 December 21
Paris approves controversial make-over of the interior of Notre Dame

Conflicting views
psychoactive | neo.life | 14 December 21
Spiritual interconnectedness vs sober neurochemistry

Edibles
psychoactive | Vice | 17 December 21
Berlin subway tickets infused with cannabis oil

Heavenly sounds
science | Inverse | 21 December 21
The frequencies Juno got off Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon

Port Townsend
psychoactive | Double Blind | 21 December 21
The 13th city to decriminalize natural psychedelics

Sister act
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 25 December 21
Self-proclaimed feminist order uses cannabis as a sacrament

Mainstream
psychoactive |  The New Yorker | 29 December 21
Ketamine therapy for the masses

Transdisciplinary Research 
psychoactive | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1 November 21
School of Pharmacy offers course in the science, history & impact of psychedelics

When Bear met Johnny Cash
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 1 November 21
The Greatful Dead sound engineer & LSD chemist left thirteen hundred reels of tape

The look of love…
life  | Nature | 1 November 21
is not in your eyes, but in physiological synchronicity

Legit
psychoactive | Double Blind Magazine | 2 November 21
Detroit joins Ann Arbor in decriminalizing psychedelics

Sustainable 
eco |  National Observer | 4 November 21
Towns worldwide put food at the center of their climate plans

Healing
psychoactive | The Guardian | 5 November 2021
Will the magic of psychedelics transform psychiatry?

Hippie issue
psychoactive | Whalebone | Volume 07
Psilocybin on the Psyche, with Paul Stamets

Greening the archipelago
eco | pv-magazine | 5 November 21
GrEco Islands launched on Greek island Chalki

Food waste
eco | reasons to be cheerful | 5 November 21
Milan is the first city worldwide to effectively tackle the problem

Biologically alive
nature | Washington Post | 11 November 21
The River Thames has reversed its course

Unexpected support
psychoactive | The New York Times | 11 November 21
Veterans are hard to discard when they ask for psychedelic counselling

Renaissance
psychoactive | Johns Hopkins | 18 November 21
A risky decision leads to a fantastic research program

Repurposing 
eco | pv-magazine | 19 November 21
Using US landfills could almost double the country’s solar energy

Psychedelics and the brain
psychoactive | Microdosing | 21 November 21
An interview with the Johns Hopkins researcher Manoj Doss

Boston comes clean
eco | Boston Globe | 22 November 21
Mayor Michelle Wu’s first act is to divest the city from fossil fuel

Ingenue
psychoactive | boingboing | 25 November 21
The psychedelic effects of Xenon gas

Powerful
psychoactive | The Guardian | 27 November 21
Psychedelics can change the world for the better

Shrooms
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 27 November 21
Mushroom lover MycoLoco spreads his fungal frequencies

Electrolysis
science | pv-magazine | 1 October 21
Swiss-Canadian consortium produces green hydrogen

Industrially
psychoactive | Rolling Stone | 2 October 21
A new approach to work

Blades to shelters
eco | My Modern Met | 5 October 21
Denmark turns old turbine blades into bike shelters

More growable
psychoactive |  ifl science | 6 October 21
Psilocybin created in bulk by scientists uses widely available materials

Psilocybin
psychoactive |  Inverse | 6 October 21
The one ingredient enhancing any psychedelic experience

Climate science
eco |  The Conversation | 8 October 21
The most important paper of all times

No increase
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 7 September 21
Legalisation does not lead to more smoking in teens

Cleaning up
eco | Hakai Magazine | 12 October 21
Harnessing Bali’s rivers of trash

Rebirth and renaissance
psychoactive | Mic | 16 October 21
Could psychedelic ego death bring you back to life?

More wind
science | Fast Company | 19 October 21
This smart wall could pay for your electricity bill

Humanity’s deep past
science | The Guardian | 19 October 21
The truth about the ice age

Pacific garbage patch
eco | Smithsonian Magazine | 19 October 21
The Ocean Cleanup: 28 tons of garbage collected in one haul

Tobacco addiction
psychoactive | Psychedelic Spotlight | 19 October 21
Psilocybin study receives first federal psychedelic research grant in fifty years

Therapeutic hallucinogens
psychoactive |  Toronto Life | 20 October 21
A huge movement is afoot

Therapeutic hallucinogens II
psychoactive | Los Angeles Magazine | 21 October 21
Los Angeles is tripping out

Green fingers
psychoactive | The Guardian | 22 October 21
In Luxembourg, growing and using cannabis is legal now

Just wat we’ve been waiting for
not psychoactive | The New York Times | 24 October 21
Fake cannabis plants to help facilitate talking about its use

Custom made
psychoactive | The Microdose | 29 October 21
Several dozen psychedelic patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,

The Stoned Ape Theory
psychoactive | Psychedelic Spotlight | 30 August 21
Terence McKenna and the origins of consciousness

The fungal mind
psychoactive | Psyche | 1 September 21
The evidence for mushroom intelligence

Traditional tales
culture |  boingboing | 2 September 21
Iron Circus Comics concentrates on Native art

Powered by the sun
science | Reasons to be cheerful | 3 September 21
Darling, let’s get a new fridge!

Teamwork 
psychoactive |  Marijuana Moment | 6 September 21
Oregon Psilocybin Panel joins Harvard research program

Treating the brain
psychoactive | Inverse | 7 September 21
How ketamine affects depression

A life-changing experience
psychoactive |  reset.me | 7 September 21
5-MeO-DMT also cures this TV star’s anxiety

No increase
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 7 September 21
Legalisation does not lead to more smoking in young people

In storage 
eco | The Guardian | 9 September 21
World’s largest machine to capture carbon from ice launched in Iceland

Growing poppies
psychoactive | The Nib | 11 September 21
Mexican mountain farmers affected by the opium economy

Safe parameters
psychoactive | Springer Link | 13 September 21
LSD as a potential treatment for medical and psychiatric disorders

Cannabis for athletes?
psychoactive | The Guardian | 15 September 21
World Doping agency to review marijuana’s banned status

Legalization
psychoactive  | Counterpunch | 15 September 21
The case for entheogens

Free cannabis
psychoactive | Business Cann | 17 September 21
Swiss cities enlist subjects to help decide best drug policy

Psilocybin
psychoactive | Newsweek | 22 September 21
‘The biggest advance in treating depression since Prozac’

A conclusive study
psychoactive | the Onion | 22 September 21
Cannabis mostly helps us overcome life

Australia
psychoactive |  The Guardian | 25 September 21
Wave of research into psychedelics and mental health

Roll Over!
culture | Open culture| 27 September 21
AI finishes Beethoven’s 10th Symphony

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?