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Read more: Flesh-Eating Bees & Our Fear of Nature
What if the honey on your morning toast came not from flowers, but from rotting flesh? It sounds like a horror-movie premise, yet in the rainforests of Central and South America, there are bees that do exactly this. These so-called “vulture bees” forego flowers and feast on carrion, turning putrefying meat into an edible substance…
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Read more: The Horror of Liminal Spaces
What “Backrooms” Says About Our Loneliness
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Read more: Versailles, Mr. Beast, and The Twilight Zone
Why do so many people play along in power games and why do we enjoy watching suffering?
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Read more: Rhythm of Life: A History of Drums
Let’s travel back before Spotify playlists and stadium concerts – about 7,000 years. A group of early humans gather around a fire… one of them starts hitting a hollow log covered with reptile skin. To our modern eyes it might look like a casual weekend at Burning Man, but to them it was serious business.…
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Read more: How the Men's Right Movement Harms Men
Why “divorced online dads” should redirect their anger
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Read more: Can We Learn to Speak Dolphin?
The journey toward inter-species communication
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Read more: The Invincible Art: Indonesia’s Debus and the Power of Pain
In a dusty village square in Banten, a man in a black headband stands calmly as another strikes his back with a rattan rod. The crowd gasps—he doesn’t flinch. Moments later, he’s rolling over a bed of thorny cactus and grinning as if it were a plush mattress. A chorus of drums and chants builds,…
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Read more: Stonehenge: A Social and Technical Achievement
What research tells us about its construction
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Read more: How Big is the Universe?
How the vastness of space can rob us of meaning
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Read more: Abiotic Oil: Fossils, Frauds, and Fallacies
A culture of weird science
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Read more: Cheating Death with Cryonics
Can freezing temperatures really grant immortality?
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Read more: Does Poverty Make Us Greedy?
Scarcity, Culture, and the Brain
