Category: good to know

Accountable
eco | Futurism, 2 March 2020
Anti-Coke lawsuit launched in California

Endurance
science | Inverse, 2 March 2020
Million-mile battery on the horizon

On the for-real side
eco | Eco-Hustler, 3 March 2020
Five ways CoV-2 measures help humanity overcome the ecological crisis

Ketamine
psychoactive | Freethink, 3 March 2020
How it is used against depression

Life on Mars
science | Futurism, 4 March 2020
NASA rover finds new evidence

CRISPR
science | Mic, 4 March 2020
First live gene editing

Haven
culture | Freethink, 6 March 2020
US court rules: safe injection sites are legal

Agnes Pelton
culture | Hyperallergic, 9 March 2020
The unconventional life of a new age painter

In style
life | Conversation, 10 March 2020
Young people drink less than earlier generations

Innovation
eco | Guardian, 13 March 2020
Achuar tribespeople introduce solar boats to the Amazon

Conspiring
life | The Conversation, 16 March 2020
How to recognize a conspiracy theory

Birds
nature | New York Times, 17 March 2020
The best engineers

The new Norml
psychoactive | Rolling Stone, 19 March 2020
How to get high these days

Rewilding
nature | Inverse, 19 March 2020
Pablo Escobar’s rhinos

No new dams
nature | Guardian, 20 March 2020
Moratorium on new hydropower plants along the Mekong

Gene editing
science | Futurism, 24 March 2020
Squids alter their RNA as needed

Essential
psychoactive | Mic, 24 March 2020
Weed is one of things we need dearly during a pandemic

The Beatles
psychoactive | The Guardian, 28 March 2020
The first time John and George took LSD

Better climate
psychoactive | The Conversation, 28 January 2020
Psychedelics and our relationship with nature

Tied in knots
culture | The Economist, 1 February 2020
An ancient Andean tradition

A fungi to live with
eco | The Conversation, 3 February 2020
Towards a green construction industry

Energy
Science | Inverse, 3 February 2020
Anti-solar panels to create electricity at night

Progress
eco | pv-magazine, 7 February 2020
More solar and wind energy than coal generated in Europe last year.

Rain drops
science | Engadget, 9 February 2020
Soon a source of renewable energy

Psychedelic posters
culture | NY Times, 10 February 2020
R.I.P. Bonnie Maclean

Testimony
nature | Smithsonian, 10 February 2020
150’000 free illustrations

Vertical Forest
eco | Mic, 11 February 2020
Turning your apartment into a jungle

Under the influence
life | The Conversation, 13 February 2020
Drugs and crime less related than poverty and crime

Under Lockdown
life | Hyperallergic, 13 February 2020
China’s music scene has taken refuge online

Horseplay
nature | Marijuana Moments, 16 February 2020
CBD administered to horses for soothing effect

Follow the money
psychoactive | Marijuana Moments, 18 February 2020
Cleaner highways and less bullying thanks to Colorado weed

Ringel’s conjecture
science | Quanta Magazine, 19 February 2020
Graphs can be built out of identical smaller parts

Recycled
eco | Educate Inspire Change, 25 February 2020
Buddhist monks make their own robes

Moonstruck
science | The Mind Unleashed, 26 February 2020
The earth is trailed by a second satellite

Public Domain
culture | Open Culture, 27 February 2020
2,8 million images up for grabs online

Safe haven
culture | Guardian, 27 February 2020
First supervised injection site to open in Philadelphia

Scythes
culture | Haaretz, 30 December 2019
Three generations of warrior women found buried together

Pleasure fasting
life | MIC, 30 December 2019
Is dopamine retention going to make us better people?

Pardoned
psychoactive | Guardian, 31 December 2019
Clemency for more than ten thousand pot related offenders in Illinois

San Pedro
psychoactive | London Review of Books, 2 January 2020
Mescaline, as seen by Emily Witt

Night life
life | The Psychologist, 3 January 2020
A collection of articles on sleep and dreams

Family
life | NYT, 5 January 2020
Birthing where you live

Exercise
science | Inverse, 5 January 2020
How much is enough?

Liquids
culture | The Conversation, 6 January 2020
About sparkling water

Renewables
eco | pv magazine, 7 January 2020
World to add 142 GW of solar energy this year

Stronger
psychoactive | Futurism, 8 January 2020
THCP thirty times stronger than THC

Destination management
life | Smithsonian, 10 January 2020
It’s the Netherlands, not “Holland”

Stocks
psychoactive | Economist, 13 January 2020
First cannabis exchange-trade funds (ETF) launched in Germany

Road trip
eco | pv magazine, 14 January 2020
The Netherlands are installing a first forty km strip of solar panels along a highway

Sourced
nature | The Conversation, 16 January 2020
The gene allowing green plants to colonise the world

On the nose
psychoactive | Futurism,18 January 2020
Sniffing out marijuana in Michigan

Tribal
psychoactive | Inverse, 20 January 2020
Positive effects of trippy drugs

Bonding
science | Smithsonian, 22 January 2012
First footage of atoms forming and breaking apart

Sleepers
eco  | The Conversation, 22 January 2020
Overnight trains curb flying

Spoliation
culture | Smithsonian, 23 January 2020
12 Nazi looted paintings discovered at the Louvre

Cannabis House
life | Rolling Stone, 23 January 2020
Hemp at the WEF

Vital drawings
culture | The Economist, 25 January 2020
Therapy and justice for child survivors

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