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Infographic of cannabis strains<\/strong><\/a>
\npsychoactive\u00a0| Boing Boing,\u00a029 Juni 2017
\nJody Radzik designed this incredible infographic of marijuana strains for Berkeley, California\u2019s Patient Care Collective. Click the images to expand (your mind)!<\/p>\n

Forest bathing to improve your health<\/strong><\/a>
\neco<\/span>\u00a0| Quartz Media,12 October\u00a0 2016
\nAlbert Hofmann liked to wax about the benefits of living on the edge of a forest and regularly walking there. Now there\u2019s scientific evidence supporting eco-therapy.<\/p>\n

The young girls\u2019 club<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0| The Guardian,\u00a022 October 2017
\nThere was not much happening other than rampant alcoholism in the Indian backwater of Thenamadevi until the teenage daughters of the drinkers took things into their own hands.<\/p>\n

The global revolution \u2013 An interview with Patti Smith<\/strong><\/a>
\nculture\u00a0| Lenny,\u00a031 October 2017
\nAs her photographs and a poem crop up in unexpected venues across Mexico City, the punk poet talks Frida and Diego, the death of the romantic caf\u00e9, and why young people are going to save the world.<\/p>\n

Facing up to the past<\/strong><\/a>
\nculture\u00a0| The Nation,\u00a031 October 2017
\nFrom Los Angeles, Austin, and Albuquerque to Cambridge, Portland, and Seattle, Columbus Day is on its way out in scores of cities across America. Municipal officials are replacing it with Indigenous Peoples Day, a day meant to recognize and celebrate the original human communities on this continent.<\/p>\n

Reforestation<\/strong><\/a>
\neco<\/span>\u00a0| Inhabitat,\u00a031 October 2017
\nConservation International aims to plant 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon in the largest reforestation project ever. The planting method used in the project is known as\u00a0muvuca<\/em>, which is the Portuguese word to describe many people (in this case trees) in a small place.<\/p>\n

How the brain deals with distractions<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0| Daily Accord,\u00a031 October 2017
\nResearchers from the University of Singapore (NUS) have recently discovered a mechanism that could explain how the brain retains working memory when faced with distraction.<\/p>\n

Daydreaming makes you smart and creative<\/strong><\/a>
\nmind\u00a0| Kurzweil,\u00a001 November 2017
\nDaydreaming during meetings or class might actually be a sign that you\u2019re smart and creative, according to a Georgia Institute of Technology study.<\/p>\n

Consciously hacking consciousness \u2013 your new hobby?<\/strong><\/a>
\nmind\u00a0| Wired,\u00a001 November 2017
\nSilicon Valley has always sought to mix engineering with enlightenment. Today, the new frontier is consciousness hacking.<\/p>\n

Mail order genetics with CRISPR kits<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0| Scientific American,\u00a002 November 2017
\nExperts debate what amateur scientists could accomplish with the powerful DNA editing tool \u2013 and whether its ready availability is cause for concern.<\/p>\n

United Nations heritage classification for Marshal McLuhan Library<\/strong><\/a>
\nculture\u00a0| University of Toronto News,\u00a002 November 2017
\nMcLuhan\u2019s book collection at the University of Toronto is as diverse as it is large, with subject matter ranging from media studies to English literature, Catholicism and philosophy.<\/p>\n

Aging decoded<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0| Psych.org,\u00a002 November 2017
\nA team of scientists at the University of California San Diego has helped decipher the dynamics that control how our cells age, and with it implications for extending human longevity.<\/p>\n

What Zoroaster meant to tell us<\/strong><\/a>
\nculture\u00a0| Collective-Evolution,\u00a002 November 2017
\nGraham Hancock investigates the mysterious religious texts of the Zoroastrians of ancient Persia and the \u2018underground cities\u2019 of neighboring Turkey. Both, he argues, are far older than is presently taught and date back to cataclysmic events near the end of the last Ice Age.<\/p>\n

Radical new approach to schizophrenia<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0| The Guardian,\u00a003 November 2017
\nBritish scientists have begun testing a radically new approach to treating schizophrenia based on emerging evidence that it could be a disease of the immune system.<\/p>\n

Old cells rejuvenated<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0| Newsweek,\u00a008 November 2017
\nA research team experimenting on a class of genes called “splicing factors” was able to take older human cells and physically rejuvenate them, turning back the clock to make them appear and behave young again.<\/p>\n

How to beat global warming<\/strong><\/a>
\neco\u00a0| The Guardian,\u00a008 November 2017
\nUntil recently the battle to avert catastrophic climate change \u2013 floods, droughts, famine, mass migrations \u2013 seemed to be lost. But with the tipping point just years away, the tide is finally turning, thanks to innovations ranging from cheap renewables to lab-grown meat and electric airplanes.<\/p>\n

Healthy mushrooms<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0| Science Daily,\u00a009 November 2017
\nMushrooms may contain unusually high amounts of two antioxidants that some scientists suggest could help fight aging and bolster health, according to a team of researchers.<\/p>\n

Eat your broccoli!<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0| Sapiensoup,\u00a009 November 2017
\nSulforaphane in broccoli can greatly reduce your cancer risk, detoxify your system, and even work towards reducing Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Critical mass of influence<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0| Time,\u00a009 November 2017
\nCritical mass has its roots in physics: it\u2019s the amount of material needed to sustain a nuclear explosion. Accumulate enough, set it off and there is no other outcome but boom! The concept has been used in sociology for decades.<\/p>\n

200’000 year-old city rewrites history<\/strong><\/a>
\nculture\u00a0|\u00a0The South African,\u00a010 November 2017
\nThe complex ruins of a walled city, thought to be built by an advanced ancient civilisation have been discovered in Southern Africa.<\/p>\n

Floating cities<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0| New York Times,\u00a013 November 2017
\nLong the stuff of science fiction, so-called \u201cseasteading\u201d has in recent years matured from pure fantasy into something approaching reality, and there are now companies, academics, architects and even a government working together on a prototype by 2020.<\/p>\n

Voyage to Hana<\/strong><\/a>
\nculture\u00a0| Civil Beat,\u00a017 November 2017
\nAt the invitation of the 9th annual Lima Festival\u2019s organizers, the venerable voyaging canoe Hokulea is making Hana the second of an estimated 40 stops throughout the islands during a two-year Mahalo, Hawaii sail that began last summer.<\/p>\n

Synthetic nanobots end antibiotic resistance<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0| Futurism,\u00a019 November 2017
\nBy creating their own microbes, researchers could provide targeted solutions to deadly bacteria, which traditional antibiotics increasingly cannot deliver.<\/p>\n

DNA revolution decodes genome<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0| The Guardian,\u00a019 November 2017
\nWithout digging up a bone or a molar, scientist from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig found \u2013 merely by studying a few microscopic strands of DNA \u2013 that tens of thousands of years ago Neanderthals had sheltered at the cave Trou Al\u2019Wesse in Belgium<\/p>\n

Mysterious extragalactic object<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0| The Guardian,\u00a0\u00a020 November 2017
\nAstronomers are now certain that the mysterious object detected hurtling past our sun last month is indeed from another solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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