{"id":378,"date":"2018-01-05T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2018.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=378"},"modified":"2018-02-07T00:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:02:50","slug":"january-2018-good-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2018\/01\/05\/january-2018-good-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"january 2018 – good to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women Power<\/strong><\/a>
\nculture\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0\u00a0National Geographic, 14 August 2017
\nThe Mosuo people are said to be one of the last semi-matriarchal societies in the world, following a maternal bloodline.<\/p>\n

Mental time travel<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Uplift, 22 November 2017
\nPrecognitive dreams suggest the mind doesn\u2019t follow the rules we usually apply to the physical world.<\/p>\n

Fadiman is our man<\/strong><\/a>
\npsychoactive\u00a0|\u00a0Vice, 29 November 2017
\nEarlier this year, over 1500 volunteers from 59 countries took small doses of LSD or other psychedelics for an entire month.<\/p>\n

Turned on in jail<\/strong><\/a>
\npsychoactive\u00a0|\u00a0Salon, 28 November 2017
\nSome of Brazil’s violent offenders are being offered the opportunity for radical rehabilitation via the powerful psychedelic experience of the ayahuasca ceremony.<\/p>\n

Quantum protection<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Kurzweil, 29 November 2018
\nA new low-cost nanomaterial developed by New York University Tandon School of Engineering researchers can be tuned to act as a secure authentication key to encrypt computer hardware and data.<\/p>\n

Spirit of the Jaguar<\/strong><\/a>
\npsychoactive\u00a0|\u00a0National Geographic, December 2017
\n\u201cYou don\u2019t take ayahuasca,\u201d the shaman said. \u201cIt takes you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yiddish in Romania<\/strong><\/a>
\nculture\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Times of Israel, 5 December 2017
\nRomania\u2019s parliament established a national day celebrating the Yiddish language and theater.<\/p>\n

Curtains for everyone<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0The Root, 6 December 2017
\nDo your neighbours know everyhing about you yet?<\/p>\n

Biocompatible bacteria\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Kurzweil, 8 December 2017
\nResearchers at ETH Z\u00fcrich have developed a technique for 3D-printing biocompatible living bacteria.<\/p>\n

What causes dementia?<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Daily Accord, 11 December 2017
\nAn international team of scientists have confirmed the discovery of a major cause of dementia, with important implications for possible treatment and diagnosis.<\/p>\n

Intelligent Optimism<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Singularity Hub, 11 December 2017
\nIn order to continue to launch moon shot ideas, tackle global challenges, and push humanity forward, it\u2019s important to be intelligently optimistic about the future.<\/p>\n

The Hidden Workings of Memory<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Quanta, 14 December 2017
\nAt MIT, Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa\u2019s lab is overturning old assumptions about how memories form, how recall works and whether lost memories might be restored from “silent engrams”.<\/p>\n

Conscious artificial intelligence<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Singularity Hub, 15 December 2017
\nMost computer scientists think that consciousness is a characteristic that will emerge as technology develops.<\/p>\n

Glowing in the dark<\/strong><\/a>
\neco\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0The Space Academy, 18 December 2017
\nRoads of the future could be lit by glowing trees instead of streetlamps, thanks to a breakthrough in creating bioluminescent plants.\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Life everywhere<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Science Daily,18 December 2017
\nAncient fossil microorganisms indicate that life is common in the universe.<\/p>\n

3D-Printed Implants<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0New Scientist, 20 December 2017
\nMetal pins and plates for broken bones could be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

Ten people who mattered<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Nature, 21 December 2017
\nNature\u2019s Ten is the journal\u2019s annual list of people who mattered in science in the past year.<\/p>\n

Male contraceptive<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0IFL Science, 21 December 2017
\nA male contraceptive gel will start clinical trial this year.<\/p>\n

Being better<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0The Mind Unleashed, 21 December 2017
\n\u201cThe difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire:\u201d (Carl Jung)<\/p>\n

Hope for opioid addicts<\/strong><\/a>
\npsychoactive\u00a0|\u00a0Reality Sandwich, 22 December 2017
\nCBD and other cannabis-based medicines have the potential to be a major tool in the battle against the current epidemic of pharmaceutical drug abuse and overdose in the United States.<\/p>\n

A<\/a><\/strong>mazing Stories<\/strong><\/a>
\nscience\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0BBC News, 25 December 2017
\nBBC News looks back on eight of the biggest science and environment stories of 2017.<\/p>\n

Protect your phone?<\/strong><\/a>
\nlife\u00a0<\/span>|\u00a0Zero Hedge, 25 December 2017
\nWhistleblower Edward Snowden has launched an app with which any android cell phone can be turned into a high security system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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