Is there a land beyond exhausted? I think my boat has pushed against its golden sands…
- Did belief in ghosts help kick-start civilisation?
- UK psychiatrist calls for psychedelic drugs to be reclassified.
- Uncover the universe’s mysteries from the comfort of home. Not related to the story above.
- Can we learn to hack our nervous systems?
- Cambridge scientist says that uploading the human brain for eternal life is possible.
- Mindfulness is stopping the world from thinking, warns Oxford academic.
- As glaciers retreat, the ancient dead are emerging from their icy tombs.
- The physicist who vanished: the strange fate of Ettore Majorana.
- Cold sore virus ‘treats skin cancer‘.
- The Charlie Charlie Challenge: Twitter kids ditch the Ouija Board to perform a bizarre ritual which ‘summons a Mexican demon‘.
- US Air Force wants planes with laser cannons
- NASA is sending a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa. It might be home to life…
- Secrets of the Hagia Sophia – healing powers, mysterious mosaics and holy relics.
- Jeffrey Kripal writes for The Daily Beast about Mad Men’s Don Draper heading to Esalen.
Thanks @grailseeker.
Quote of the Day:
The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Plutarch