Before it fueled Woodstock and the Summer of Love, LSD was brought to America to make spying easier.
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It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.
Many of his criticisms ring true today.
The pieces don’t represent an army, they stand in for the Western social order.
Yukio Mishima treated his life as if it were a story — one with a surprising and deadly final act.
Scans show similar activity to what occurs when you think about yourself.
It is often assumed that AI will become so advanced that the technology will be able to do anything. In reality, there are limits.
Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky. A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual.
A tourist generally has an eye for the things that have become almost invisible to the resident.
Even 1500 years after the fall of Rome, its western border can still be seen on German street maps.
The negative associations of introversion help to explain why loneliness now carries such social stigma.
When does a healthy desire for wealth morph into greed? And how can we stop it?
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is often labeled a quintessential Spanish artist, but his allegiance may well have lied with the French Enlightenment instead.
It’s not the caffeine; it’s the people.
Well preserved coffins hint towards more discoveries in a famed necropolis.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
The bubonic plague ravaged the world for centuries, killing up to 200 million people.
Dancing, for Nietzsche, was another way of saying Yes! to life.
Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?
But most city dwellers weren’t seeing the science — they were seeing something out of Blade Runner.
If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
ExtendNY stretches the Big Apple’s gridiron all across the globe – with some bizarre effects
“Body, breath, awareness…that’s your life. Every problem you ever have, every joy you ever have, depends on that.” In this week’s episode of Think Again, host Jason Gots talks with acclaimed poet and zen teacher Norman Fischer about the imagination as a tool for living a good life.
Experts on the science of giving look into whether there’s another possible upside to doing good: physical attractiveness.
A general reorganisation of masculine norms interrupted the shaving-respectability regime.
What is human dignity? Here’s a primer, told through 200 years of great essays, lectures, and novels.
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.