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Opinion | Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens

Even for people who are deeply disabled neurologically, nature can be more powerful than any medication.

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Ancient hallucinogens found in 1,000-year-old shamanic pouch

The ritual container, made of three fox snouts, contains the earliest known evidence of ayahuasca preparation.

One of those stories that instantly reframes what you know about the world, in many different ways. The history of shamanic practice, the substances used, the origins of those substances, the science used to determine all these things. There’s a lot to learn here.

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How the news took over reality

This article is rife with all the language of Baudrillard's 'Simulacra and Simulation' but falls short of actually naming it. If reality is a continuous, analog experience, news stories are what makes it discrete and digital, to say nothing of digital technology's assistance in the matter. News stories are thus simulacra of a particular kind, and the notion of what's newsworthy defines a reality which is constructed by the news. The ubiquity of the news today has then led to the advent of the hyperreal - a reality that is in fact simulated, but we can hardly tell the difference, let alone escape.

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Žižek’s ‘I Prefer Not To’ (Respond to Peterson) - The Philosophical Salon

“What many consider as missing, i.e., a structural refutation of Peterson’s claims, was as such the demonstration of the debate’s real limitation through Žižek’s position.”

A debate in and of itself is a discourse which can be refuted.

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Is there any hope for archaeologists to discover a civilization that existed before humanity?

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No Heart, No Moon

How humanity eats the future to feed the present.

Really well written by Matt Jones, a romantic tragedy on the sacrifices made for progress and ambition.

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Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files

When it comes to their stuff, people often have a hard time letting go. When the object of their obsession are rooms full of old clothes or newspapers, it can be unhealthy—even dangerous. But what about a stash that fits on 10 5-inch hard drives?

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What Does a Fantasy Map Look Like?

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Big data, AI and the peculiar dignity of tacit knowledge – Tim Rogan | Aeon Essays

Market systems have made better use of more information than economic planners. What if AI and machine learning changed that?

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Returning to Order through Realism

Law and Order is the familiar rallying cry for a generation of contemporary right-wing politicians from Poland and Turkey to Brazil and the USA. In the context of such a political program, difference, change, and cultural others must be avoided as disruptions of the safety that order is supposed to represent.

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The Geopolitics of Rare Earth Elements

These not-so-rare but still increasingly important members of the periodic table are causing supply chain quandaries for global powers including China and the United States.

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U.S. Readies $11 Billion in Tariffs on E.U.

The U.S. and Europe said they are preparing to impose tit-for-tat tariffs as part of a long dispute over aerospace subsidies.

By reading the article it is clear that this is merely a battleground, a part of a strategic war being directed by business concerns, and one that really should not be waged on traditional allies.

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On Early Modern European Political Theory and African Slavery

Offering a provocative critique of the unspoken liberal underpinning of historiography on slavery, Herman Bennett's new study is addressed to Europeanists who have ignored the centrality of slavery to early modern political theory.

A bit like Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectic applied to socio-political theory.

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Opinion | Why Trump Reigns as King Cyrus

The Christian right doesn’t like the president only for his judges. They like his style.

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UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That.

More than half the carbon humanity has ever emitted into the atmosphere has come in just the last 25 years.

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I know the past few articles I've posted have been pretty antagonistic but this one is good, trust me.

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The American Economy Is Rigged

And what we can do about it