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The Search for the Adam and Eve of Magic Mushrooms Is Booming
Image via Flickr Creative Commons Some mushrooms may be mind-meltingly magical, but they didn't appear out of thin air. Like all fungi, psychotropic shrooms evolved from another living species, though...
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The FISA Court Knew the NSA Lied Repeatedly About Its Spying, Approved Its...
The NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center, via the NSA The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) is the secret authority that judges on whether or not surveillance actions conducted under...
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Is Internet the Next Fundamental Human Right?
A map of world internet access in 2007, via Flickr As decreed by the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human beings have the right to free expression, to culture, to equality, to...
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Perhaps Silicon Valley Should Just Leave Homeless People Alone
Silicon Valley, fixing homelessness / Image Silicon Valley has long had an uncomfortable relationship with the homeless. Privileged members of the tech entrepreneur class have alternatively used the...
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Ancient Europeans Spiced Up the Hunter-Gatherer Life with Garlic Mustard
Photo partially via Wikimedia Commons Neolithic humans did all sorts of non-cavemen-like things, like domesticating animals, farming, crafting stone tools, pottery, clay figurines and bone flutes… and...
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New Zealand Just Passed Its Own Domestic Spying Bill
This Kiwi's roaming internet connection is no longer safe. Flickr According to the Global Peace Index, after Iceland, New Zealand is the safest place to live in the world. Despite boasting liberal gun...
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"The Ghosts in Our Machine" Is a Raw, Decidedly Quiet Look at the Animal...
Blackfish has gotten a hell of a lot of press in the past few months, and rightfully so. It is a tight and powerful documentary, one that reveals the deplorable conditions of captive entertainment...
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We Get Confused When Recyclables Look Like Garbage
Photo via Flickr Even with all the descriptive triangle symbols, color-coded bins, and heaps of information on how to sort your paper and plastic, people only recycle about a third of all recyclable...
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Wolves Howl More for Their Friends
Photo via Tambako/Flickr Does the lonesome wolf howl at the moon for the same reason a dog cries when its master leaves it home alone? Tracing the roots of canine communication is difficult, but new...
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The CIA Is Closing the Office That Declassifies Historical Documents
CIA Director John Brennan, courtesy the CIA As a result of the sequester-induced budget cuts, the CIA is closing the Historical Collections Division office, which declassifies historical documents,...
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Free Chelsea Manning
The photo Manning emailed to Master Sgt. Paul Adkins, subject "My Problem." It was released by the US Army. “I wouldn’t mind going to prison for the rest of my life, or being executed so much, if it...
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The Price We Pay on the Black Market for Prescription Downers
Photo via Flickr / CC. If the proverbial street does not lie, then what about all the semi-faceless people locked in handshake drug deals in the bombed-out middle of the block? Do they not lie too? A...
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Scientists Can Turn Scar Tissue Into a Beating Human Heart
Image via Wikimedia Year after year, heart disease is the number one killer in America. In researching a treatment, scientists have poured resources into developing potential heart replacements. But...
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So We Just Broke a Giant 4 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Into 5 Pieces
The meteor as seen from Reno, Nevada, April 22, 2012. Image credit: Lisa Warren via NASA Its trip began 4 to 5 billion years ago. It came to Earth as a 75-ton fireball one April day, and is now spread...
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This Project Breaks Your Facebook Habit With Electrocution and Ridicule
Well, Facebook is officially the bad habit of internetting—that fixation you can't seem to kick, feel really guilty about, but sneak it anyway at night while no one's looking. As studies have shown,...
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Someone Uploaded 75 Videos of the Alleged Chemical Attacks in Syria
In the early hours of the morning on Tuesday, August 20–eerily close to the anniversary of Obama’s "redline" speech—an alleged chemical attack occurred just outside of Damascus, taking the lives of...
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Talking Apocalypse with the Cast of "The World's End"
Images: Laurie Sparham / Focus Features Last week, the author attended a roundtable with the cast of the upcoming film The World's End. The topic? The world's end, obviously. Warning: some spoilers...
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Montreal To Say Au Revoir to Fireplaces
An endangered fireplace via Wikimedia Commons Along with our old light bulbs and aerosol cans, culture practices near and dear to humans are going to have to change, if we're going to have any air...
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Wikipedia Can Predict Box Office Flops
Photo via Flickr / CC. Film studios churn out an inexhaustible glut of sequels, reboots, and adaptations during the summertime blockbuster season. This of course is because existing franchises usually...
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This Aussie Drone Captured the Sheepish Swarm of Things
Hey, what do you call a group of sheep? A drift. It's really the perfect animal group name in the context of this promotional video from an Australian wool company. The short clip is yet another...
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