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Psi-verts and Psychic Piracy: The Future of Parapsychology?

Although there seems to be evidence emerging for an essentially constant and unconscious psychic awareness in all people, there seems to be little indication that the desire to buy a specific product can be psychically "planted" in one's unconscious mind. The bad news is that in principal such "psiverts" are completely feasible and resemble much of the work that has occurred in parapsychology over the years. (more)

7-3-09

Greening the Mother Road

Erin Shaw

Ambitious plans are underway to implement an alternative energy roadway system along Historic Route 66. (more)
7-2-09

Cannabis Collective in CA

Jessica Pherson

The first Cannabis Collective to use the tax remittance card presents art and marijuana as inspiration for illumination and marketing in California. (more)
7-2-09

Commons

A Vision for Getting to 2012

John L. Petersen

In the face of the rapidly converging trends approaching, we need to be on the offense: to shape and help manifest the new world that will certainly evolve. (more)

7-2-09

Honey Cure All

Nathan Clark

Australian researchers have discovered that Manuka Honey can kill any type of bacteria or pathogen that has been tested on. (more)
7-2-09

Saturn's Watery Moon

Kovvy

Astronomers recently found very strong evidence indicating an ocean under the surface of Saturn's frozen moon, Enceladus. (more)
7-2-09

Life

Acoustic Black Holes

Bill Machon

Physicists have created artificial black holes that are capable of trapping sound rather than light. (more)

7-2-09

Eco

SF's Recycling Revolution

Jessica Pherson

San Francisco has recently passed the most vigorous recycling laws in the United States. (more)

7-2-09

Gathering of the Wind

Matt Toussaint

High-flying wind turbines have the potential to harvest vast amounts of clean energy from jet streams.

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7-2-09

Commons

Beyond Life Inc: Talking with Douglas Rushkoff

Peggy Nelson

Media ecologist Douglas Rushkoff tells how the corporation has made us over into its own image, and how we can take it back. He also illuminates the Dark Ages, reveals why there's a God on our money, and explains what we're really buying into when we buy that mortgage. (more)

7-1-09

Commons

Evolver Spores: Beyond Money

Daniel Pinchbeck

For our second Evolver Spore, "Beyond Money: What Comes Next?," we will explore workable alternatives to the current economic paradigm. Spores are already taking place in 20 cities. Find your local gathering or start your own. Wed, July 15. (more)

7-1-09

Eco

Caribou Crash

Matt Toussaint

A recent study reports massive declines in caribou populations worldwide. (more)

7-1-09

Life

Quantum Teleportation

Kovvy

New discoveries in "quantum entanglement" may assist scientists in developing teleportation devices. (more)

7-1-09

Psyche

Strategies for 2012

Marisa Smith

In his new book, A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change, futurist John L. Peterson tackles the question of what government and business can do to plan for the Mayan end date.

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6-30-09

Tech

Biomimicry: Designing with Nature

Gil Friend

Industrial designs that consider and emulate nature are more likely to succeed, because they use design principles tested and refined in evolutionary time, and they use materials that renew, replenish, and support life's cycles. (more)

6-30-09

Psyche

Lick the Frog

Tollevin S Williams

Vice Magazine's resident pharmacologist Hamilton Morris risks life and limb in search of the Amazon's psychedelic sapo frog. [Video] (more)

6-30-09

Life

Self-Aware Plants

Jessica Pherson

Ordinary sagebrush shows a unique ability to "look out for their own kind." (more)

6-30-09

Eco

Open Source Farming

Nathan Clark

The Open Source Ecology movement is bringing individuals together to develop replicable "resilient communities." (more)

6-30-09

Psyche

Cosmovision: An Aya Odyssey

Rak Razam

The ayahuasca vine has spread her tendrils across the world and a genuine archaic revival was underway. My bags were packed; South America beckoned, and the ancient mysteries of the rainforest awaited. I wanted in on it. (more)

6-29-09

Tech

Turbines on a Wire

Remi Gurak

Existing power lines could become home to wind turbines thanks to a new design from Victoria University in New Zealand. (more)

6-29-09

Arts

Rapping about the Masculine

Propaganda Anonymous

Byron Hurt's documentary Beyond Beats and Rhymes explores the complex issues of masculinity, misogyny, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. [Trailer] (more)

6-29-09

Commons

Bread and Circuses

Renee Verdier

My father insists that my dissatisfaction with consumerist and materialist lifestyles renders me an inescapably unhappy person, doomed to a life of politically-correct misery. I, however, take great pleasure from abstaining from the litany of excess and violence of mainstream American culture. (more)

6-29-09

Arts

Souldish NYC Events 6/26 through 7/2

Salma

Souldish NYC Events weekend of June 26, 2009 (more)
6-26-09

Psyche

The Eight-Circuit Brain

Antero Alli

Timothy Leary indirectly turned millions of people on to LSD, but his central contribution was his Eight-Circuit Brain model for Intelligence Increase, a user-friendly grid designed for anyone exploring higher consciousness as a means not merely to get high, but for designing and creating new contexts for their lives. (more)

6-26-09

Life

Be Your Own Best Guinea Pig!

Evolver Health Editor

Evolver announces a new experiment: Try one of these alternative health products for free, and write about its effects on Evolver.net. (more)

6-26-09

Commons

Exorcising Consumerism

Erin Shaw

In the latest episode of "The Last Televangelist," Reverend Billy preaches against the "demon monoculture" that's threatening to gentrify Coney Island. [Video] (more)

6-26-09

Psyche

Crop Circle Ceremonial Complex

Bridget Algiere

Crop circles found during routine aerial surveys have uncovered temples and tombs that may pre-date Stonehenge by 1,000 years. (more)

6-26-09

Tech

New Energy Now

Remi Gurak

The New Energy Movement aims to take energy policy out of corporate pockets and place it in the hands of the public. (more)

6-26-09

Psyche

The Devil Made You Do It. Again

Lisa Kirchner

As part of a weeklong series of events, the second annual World Science Festival in New York brought in a Nobel Laureate to moderate a panel that included a neuroscientist, a philosopher, and a psychologist to take on one of the most vexing questions of all time -- do humans have free will? (more)

6-25-09

The Devil Made You Do It. Again.

Lisa Kirchner

As part of a weeklong series of events, the second annual World Science Festival in New York brought in a Nobel Laureate to moderate a panel that included a neuroscientist, a philosopher, and a psychologist to discuss one of the most vexing questions of all time -- do humans have free will?

 

 

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6-25-09
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