Religious Beliefs DO Shape Psychedelic Trips

From times immemorial, priests and tribal medicine men used psychedelic drugs to experience an altered state of consciousness and access seemingly supernatural powers. French hunters travelled to distant caves to eat magic mushrooms as part of a sacred initiation ceremony. Monks ingest substances like bhang (cannabis) in India.  Amahuaca Indians drink ayahuasca deep in the Amazon […]

Are Ecobricks The Answer To Our Plastic Epidemic?

Only 9% of the one million plastic bottles used every minute are recycled. This means a whopping 2,402,400,000 bottles are added to our physical environment every day.   That’s a lot of plastic.   But is it possible to make constructive use of all the plastic waste with which our earth is being clogged?   Two […]

5 Gorgeous House Plants That Are F**king Hard To Kill!

Ferns, vines, flowers: I’ve murdered them all. But, after one successful year of VERY haphazard pot plant gardening, I’m here to share my wisdom. Here are five green things even a reckless plant parent like you can keep alive!   1. Arrowhead Plant   “Leafy boy” did not have an easy start in life. I […]

Dystopian Scientists Are Harvesting Young Blood

Back in the early 2000’s, a group of young scientists began stitching live mice together in a bid to revive a century-old procedure known as parabiosis. Their aim was to test whether young blood could be used to rejuvenate the old. Though these initial experiments were gruesome, they did gain some intriguing results and reignited […]

Could Magic Mushrooms Be More Effective Than Prozac? We’ll Soon Know.

American researchers have been given the green light to start clinical trials testing the use of psilocybin to help people with treatment-resistant depression. Compass Pathways, a company funded by merchant banker/fin-tech investor Christian Angermayer and billionaire Peter Thiel (the co-founder of PayPal), has recently been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to […]