Category: good to know

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

“We too”
psychoactive | Lad Bible, 30 September 2020
Jacinda Ardern smoked pot in the past – New Zealanders not surprised

Record
eco | pv-magazine, 1 October 2020
China takes world’s largest solar plant online

Transparent
science | USDA, 1 October 2020
Glass made of wood – the future of windows

Night life
science | Mic Check, 1 October 2020
MIT glove allows you to program your dreams

Green money
psychoactive | The Cannabis Investor, 5 October 2020
Putting your money where your smoke it

Mylo
eco | Futurism, 6 October 2020
Adidas and Lululemon to use mushroom leather for their products

Bennu
science | Inverse, 8 October 2020
Ancient asteroid shows how life may have reached earth

Getting there
psychoactive | The Globe and Mail, 11 October 2020
Psychedelics and palliative care in Canada

Success
psychoactive | The Conversation, 9 October 2020
RuPaul’s Drag Race is an international money maker

Congrats
culture | Mother Jones, 13 October 2020
Sax virtuoso Pharaoh Sanders turns eighty

Breathing
science | Quartz, 14 October 2020
All about our lungs

Godhouse
culture | Smithsonian, 15 October 2020
First ruins of religious structure honoring the old gods found in Norway

Outdoors
nature | Inverse, 17 October 2020
Four ways how being in nature makes you healthier

Six herbs
psychoactive | Double Blind, 19 October 2020
Six natural ways to enhance your trip.

Over the counter
psychoactive | The Guardian, 20 October 2020
Cocaine and MDMA soon available in British pharmacies?

LSD
psychoactive | Futurism, 22 October 2020
Microdosing improves mood and cognition

From the great beyond
psychoactive | Boingboing, 22 October 2020
Timothy Leary gives an interview on the occasion of his 100th birthday

Legalization
psychoactive | Rolling Stone, 23 October 2020
Changes in the status of psychedelics may lie ahead in various states

Kiwi approval
psychoactive | The Guardian, 28 October 2020
New Zealand’s vote hanging in the air

Stronghold
life | Mother Jones, November/December 2020
How black Oaklanders finally ousted the school police

Minutely
psychoactive | Inverse, 28 August 2020
Microdoses of LSD lead to increased pain tolerance

A rumble in the jungle
psychoactive | New York Times, 30 August 2020
Ayahuasca therapy sought after by military veterans

On the road
eco | pv-magazine, 1 September 2020
Photovoltaics for highways

A celestial merger
science | Futurism, 2 September 2020
Astronomers to have spotted the joining of two black holes

Powerless
science | Futurism, 4 September 2020
First battery-free Gameboy

Faux
eco | The Conversation, 9 September 2020
Vegan leather made from mushroom myceleum

Magellanic Stream
science | Inverse, 9 September 2020
Mystery of the giant gas stream around the Milky Way solved

Jerusalem
culture | Smithsonian, 10 September 2020
Stone ruins of ancient palace discovered

New album
culture | Rolling Stone, 10 September 2020
RS interviews the Dalai Lama

Neural network
nature | Freethink, 13 September 2020
Google warns ships about whales

Aviation
science | CNN News, 15 September 2020
Why passenger airplanes may soon be flying in flocks

ASMR
science | The Conversation, 15 September 2020
Do you know what it is, and can you feel it?

Bioinspired
science | EurekAlert, 16 September 2020
Chitin-based material to help colonize Mars

Neuroscience
psychoactive | Berkeleyside, 16 September 2020
UC Berkeley opens center for psychedelic science and education

Non-dairy
life | MicCheck, 17 September 202
The best milk for you

Evolution
science | The Guardian 17 September 2020
120’000 B.C. in Arabia – how we spread out of Africa

Celebration
psychoactive | Rolling Stone, 18 September 2020
4/20 is psychedelic mushroom day

Sunny
science | FreeThink, 20 September 2020
Solar engineering, our only hope?

Free
psychoactive | Double Blind, 21 September 2020
Ann Arbor decriminalizes psychedelics

Expensive
eco | pv-magazine, 24 September 2020
Nuclear power now costs the most of all energies

Clean Power
science  | The Guardian, 28 July 2020
Europeans initiate world’s largest fusion project in southern France

Vegan
science | Inverse, 28 July 2020
Bacteria-made dairy offers an alternative to cow milk

Who do you love?
science | Mic, 31 July 2020
Why mosquitos bite some people more than others

Organ Chips
science | Freethink, 2 August 2020
A possible replacement for lab animals

Assistance
psychoactive  | Rolling Stone, 5 August 2020
Canada allows four terminally ill patients to use psilocybin

Revival
psychoactive | The Guardian, 6 August 2020
More Americans are dropping acid (again)

China’s Pompei
culture | National Geographic, 6 August 2020
Ancient city reveals mysterious carvings and traces of sacrifice

Take Back the Power
culture | Mother Jones, 11 August 2020
Native American artist win prize for mural

Nanotechnology
eco | The Guardian, 11 August 2020
Bricks turned into batteries for renewables

Hydrogen
science | Futurism, 12 August 2020
One car to ban them all: the Hyperion XP-1

A peak into the past
culture | Smithsonian, 13 August 2020
Photorealistic portraits of Roman emperors

Dousing
science | Freethink, 16 August 2020
Chemo sprayed inside abdominal cancer patients

MIP* = RE
science | The Conversation, 17 August 2020
Computational breakthrough changes physics and mathematics

Big money
psychoactive | Wall Street Journal, 20 August 2020
MAPS raises thirty million dollars for psychedelic research

Unlimited Sciences
psychoactive | Freethink, 22 August 2020
Shroomers wanted for Johns Hopkins study

Not just one
science | Futurism, 25 August 2020
AI confirms the existence of fifty new planets

Cannabis reform
psychoactive | High Times, 25 August 2020
Dutch experiment ongoing

Up the trunk
psychoactive | The Guardian, 27 August 2020
Elephants in Warsaw zoo treated with cannabis

No impact
psychoactive | The Conversation, 27 August 2020
Cannabis after work does not affect productivity

East of the Mississippi
nature | New York Times, 30 June 2020
Elks flock to Kentucky’s disused coal mines

Parched
psychoactive | Mic, 30 June 2020
Why smoking cannabis makes your mouth dry

Vision
science | Freethink, 1 July 2020
Red light improves eyesight in people over forty

Seeing without knowing
science | The Conversation, 2 July 2020
Blindsight: a neurological condition that may help explain consciousness

Minigrid
eco | pv-magazine, 3 July 2020
Solar power brings clean energy to millions

Facial recognition
life | Inverse, 7 July 2020
On banning racist technology

Weed
psychoactive | Freethink, 7 July 2020
Microdosing cannabis for pain relief

Streaming
science | Futurism, 8 July 2020
Two-hundred stars are moving toward the center of the Milky Way

Kinship
science | Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2020
Native Americans and Polynesians met eight-hundred years ago

Climate rocks
eco | The Guardian, 8 July 2020
Spreading basalt dust on fields to bind CO2 second best to reduce fossil fuel

Hydrogen
eco | pv-magazine, 9 July 2020
EU drives for a capacity of 120 GW renewables

Spirit bear
nature | New York Times, 10 July 2020
Hair from white bears reveals genetic details

Inspiring
life | The Conversation, 10 July 2020
Communal living in England and elsewhere

A green duty
eco | Mic, 10 July 2020
In Vermont composting is required by law

Socially distant operations
science | Inverse, 13 July 2020
Telesurgery on the rise

Fossil fuels
eco | Future Crunch, 16 July 2020
The worst year ever for oil & co.

Protection
nature | Expanded Consciousness, 16 July 2020
Corals as flood managers

Insomnia
psychoactive | Rolling Stone, 21 July 2020
CBN will make you sleep

Charger
eco | pv-magazine, 22 July 2020
Parking lot roof charges the batteries of parked cars

Out of this world
science | Collective Evolution, 25 July 2020
American Department of Defense briefs about alien objects

Good trip, bad trip
psychoactive | Futurism, 29 May 2020
Neuroscientists study how the sense of self breaks down on psilocybin

Holy Rollers
psychoactive | Physorg, 29 May 2020
Cannabis and frankincense found at biblical shrine in Israel

Involvement
psychoactive | Leafly, 2 June 2020
Cannabis & racial tension

Depression
psychoactive | Freethink, 3 June 2020
Ketamine’s interaction with the brain analyzed

Crisis fatigue
life | Wired, 4 June 2020
We’re not made to be upset for longer periods of time

Energy
science | Futurism, 5 June 2020
New power generator changes darkness to light

Soap ‘n dope
psychoactive | Mother Jones, 5 June 2020
The story of Dr. Bonner’s

Agrivoltaics
eco | pv-magazine, 8 June 2020
Solar potential and underlying land use

Inclusiveness
culture | The Guardian, 9 June 2020
London and Manchester to topple all racist statues

See-through
science | Freethink, 9 June 2020
Swiss scientists produce breathable, transparent and eco-friendly mask

Deep down
science | Futurism, 12 June 2020
New structures found near the core of the earth

Decarceration
culture | Freethink, 17 June 2020
Atlanta jail replaced with center for equity

Guidance
psychoactive | Aeon, 17 June 2020
How to have a safe trip

Expertise
culture | Hyperallergic, 23 June 2020
John Cage loves mushrooms

Belated honors
science | Futurism, 24 June 20020
NASA to rename its headquarters after black engineer Mary W. Jackson

Prehistoric  landscaping
culture | Smithsonian, 24 June 2020
Thirty large prehistoric pits discovered close to Stonehenge

Furry
nature | National Geographic, 24 June 2020
No more Dutch mink farms

Drugs for free
psychoactive | Inverse, 25 June 2020
Canadian activists hand out free cocaine to address drug poisoning emergency

Big cats
nature | Inverse, 4 May 2020
On the genetics and repopulation of lions

Staying alive
psychoactive | Rolling Stone, 5 May 2020
Black market weed is keeping many New Yorkers sane

Yoga
life | Mic Check, 11 May 2020
Daily routine may help curb migraine

Spirituality
culture | National Geographic, 12 May 2020
What we can learn of Native American healers

Relief for PTSD patients
psychoactive | MAPS, 12 May 2020
Study shows statistically significant difference after MDMA treatment

Reforesting
eco | Mongabay, 12 May 2020
Amazonian women’s collective collects 3.2 tons of seeds

Clarification
life | AlterNet, 14 May 2020
How to talk to people who believe in corona conspiracies

Have A Good Trip
psychoactive | Leafly, 14 May 2020
Netflix’ documentary on LSD

Drug Education
psychoactive | Freethink, 14 May 2020
Meet Dominic Milton Trott

Ghostbusters
life | The Economist, 15 May 2020
Is the British Museum haunted?

England
science | Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2020
Amateur archeologists discover dozens of unknown structures

Art Activism
culture | The Conversation, 15 May 2020
Barbie strikes back

Nature vs. nurture
science | Big Think, 15 May 2020
An idea we need to rethink

Vaccine
psychoactive | High Times, 15 May 2020
Cannabis-based protein to be part of a Covid-19 vaccine

Plastic waste
eco | The Guardian, 16 May 2020
Coca Cola & Carlsberg plan to switch to plant-based bottles

Therapeutically
psychoactive | Futurism, 20 May 2020
Farming psilocybin in Jamaica

Survival
nature | Inverse, 21 May 2020
Corals turn stunning colors to survive

CBD
psychoactive | New York Times, 23 May 2020
Where the craze originated

Landscapes
culture | The Guardian, 24 May 2020
News from Nazca

Mount St. Helena
nature | Mother Jones, 25 May 2020
The illustrated healing of a volcanic scar

By the numbers
nature | National Geographic, 30 March 2020
How animals count

Optimal
psychoactive | New York Times, 1 April 2020
The search for a predictable cannabis high

CBD
psychoactive | Futurism, 2 April 2020
The twenty best oil brands

Sweet
life | The Economist, 4 April 2020
Making chocolate in the jungle

Big tobacco
science | Freethink, 4 April 2020
Clinical trials on plant-based SAR-Cov-2 vaccine underway

Leftovers
life | Mother Jones, 4 April 2020
New York chefs feed hospitality workers

Braille
science | Inverse, 6 April 2020
New physics for forty-year old technique

Rafting
nature | Smithsonian, 6 April 2020
African monkeys came to South America more than 30 million years ago

Entertainment
culture | The Atlantic, 8 April 2020
Watch, listen and learn for free

Exceptional
life | Mother Jones, 10 April 2020
How two black sisters are fighting inequality in New York

Hyperloop
life | The Guardian, 10 April 2020
The future of traveling by train

Intelligent
science | Futurism, 11 April 2020
Ring detects Covid-19 ahead of symptoms

Reset
psychoactive | Inverse, 13 April 2020
How psilocybin recalibrates the brain

Purse strings
life | Futurism, 13 April 2020
Pope Francis endorses universal basic income

Free classes
culture | Hyperallergic, 13 April 2020
Artists teach kids online in English and Spanish

Addicted?
science | British Psychological Society, 15 April 2020
Satirical study of online interactions

Drinkables
psychoactive | Rolling Stone, 20 April 2020
Cannabis beverages more widely available in the US

Milan
eco | The Guardian, 21 April 2020
After lockdown: great plans for pedestrians and cyclists

2nd hand
eco | The Conversation, 21 April 2020
Popular in Malawi and elsewhere in Africa

Viewpoint
culture | First Dog on the Moon, 24 April 2020
Are bats to blame?