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Read more: A New Dawn for Psychedelics – Microdosing and the Road to Legalization
In the mid-20th century, psychedelic substances like LSD and psilocybin mushrooms went from scientific curiosities to symbols of the counterculture. In the 1950s and 60s, researchers explored LSD’s potential to treat mental illness, and some psychiatrists reported promising results. But by the late 1960s, these hallucinogens escaped the lab and exploded into popular use, sparking…
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Read more: The Citrus Crisis: Why are Orange Crops Failing?
In the early morning light, Florida’s orange groves once glistened with promise – rows of emerald-leaved trees crowned with sun-bright fruit. For generations, these citrus orchards were a source of pride and prosperity. The scent of orange blossoms would drift for miles, and harvest time brought an abundance so vast it seemed inexhaustible. Yet today,…
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Read more: The Gaia Hypothesis – Is Earth a Super Organism?
Picture Earth not as a rock with life scattered across its surface, but as a single, self-regulating organism. Its oceans act as blood, circulating nutrients. Its forests are lungs, exhaling oxygen and drawing in carbon. Its atmosphere is a thin skin, holding in warmth and filtering cosmic rays. This was the vision crystallized in the…
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Read more: Will the Wolves of Chernobyl Cure Cancer?
When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in April of 1986, it created what seemed like an eternal scar on the Earth. Radiation poured into the air, soil, and rivers. Entire towns were abandoned, crops were poisoned, and the world watched in horror at the first great nuclear disaster to unfold under the unforgiving eye of…
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Read more: Can the Immortal Jellyfish Really Unlock Human Immortality?
A tiny creature drifts through a moonlit ocean, its translucent body no larger than a human fingernail. This unassuming jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, carries an astonishing secret. When confronted with injury, starvation, or the simple weariness of age, it does not die. Instead, it undergoes a miraculous transformation—an adult medusa turning back into a juvenile polyp,…
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Read more: How Humans Perceive Time Now AND in the Future
What is time, really? Is it the slow wheel of the seasons, turning winter into spring each year as our ancestors watched the sky? Is it the steady beat of a heart and the rise and fall of the chest as we breathe each second? Or is it the digital numbers flickering on our screens,…
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Read more: The Samurai Crab – Evolution, Myth, and the Face in the Shell
On the shores of Japan, there lives a little crab with a big reputation. Its shell, rugged and textured, bears a striking pattern that to human eyes looks uncannily like a face – not just any face, but the fierce visage of an ancient samurai warrior. Bulging eyes, a furrowed brow, a grimacing mouth: the…
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Read more: Meltdown: Ocean Climate, Politics, Trade Routes
In the far north, where the world’s oceans meet the polar ice, a profound transformation is underway. The Arctic—once sealed by thick, unyielding sheets of ice—is thawing. Summer by summer, the white expanse that crowned our planet is shrinking, revealing blue water where there was none before. Where explorers of old once dreamed of a…
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Read more: The Spectacle of Evolution
In the late 20th century, philosophers warned of a coming Spectacle – a world where reality would be eclipsed by images and appearances. They saw modern life turning into an immense show, a perpetual carnival of impressions. In this spectacle, everything that was directly lived began to move into representation, as one thinker famously put…
