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Study participants consistently ranked their trip as one of their most meaningful life experiences. Source: Why psychedelics like magic mushrooms kill the ego and fundamentally transform the brain
Thiel claims to prefer “Star Wars,” but his philosophy may be Trekkier than he’d like to admit. Source: Why Peter Thiel Fears “Star Trek” – The New Yorker
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women – in the U.S. alone, more than 610,000 people die from it annually. GrowBlox Life Sciences LLC announced that they plan to develop a drug that could prevent and treat cardiovascular disease using cannabis. Source: A Pharmaceutical Company is Officially Using Cannabis…
Want a more educated, less narrow-minded citizenry that can tell fake news from real? Make them take this class Source: The art of learning: Why art history might be the most important subject you could study today – Salon.com
We are now getting to see what American democracy looks like without any real buffers in the way of sheer populism and demagoguery. Source: America’s democracy has become illiberal – The Washington Post
Source: How Being a Diver Can Restore Your Life | LSD Scuba
Liviu Babitz is the co-founder of Cyborg Nest. Source: Bird-Like Biohacker Liviu Babitz Can Sense Which Way North Is | Inverse
Leaders need to use more vivid imagery to communicate their vision for the future. Source: People Remember What You Say When You Paint a Picture
Stop trying to dazzle us. Just give us old-school great design that works. Source: Dear Apple, Please Fix Boring Problems This Year | Co.Design | business + design
Learn to conserve energy so that you can expend it when the moment is right. Source: The Chinese principle ‘wu wei’ eliminates the need for lifehacks — Quartz
Lack of geotagging is the main reason I don’t take my regular camera out as often as I’d like, so I decided to do something about that. Source: Add GPS to your dumb camera photos using your iOS device | Cult of Mac
Geotagging is simple and there are many reasons why you may want to start doing it. Here’s everything you need to know, including how to add and remove your own geotags. Source: Geotagging Photos: What It Is & Why You Should Start Right Now
For Shit Robot’s “End of Trail” music video, Kevin McGloughlin shows off his gorgeous new digital effect. Source: Digi-Cut Animation, Psychedelics, and Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor | The Creators Project
All of our recent presidents and many of our most infamous business leaders graduated from Ivy League schools, which is why we need to look somewhere else for leadership. Source: Harvard MBAs Keep Going to Prison. So Why do They Still Rule the World? | Inc.com
Thriller features a linguist, not a gun-toting hero. Source: The science behind the movie ‘Arrival’ – The Washington Post
If you’ve ever been to a foreign country where you don’t speak the language, you know that an inability to communicate can be frustrating, if not a bit scary. But in Arrival, when 12 shell-shaped UFOs land across the world, everything seems to hinge on the skills of Amy Adams’ linguistics expert, Louise—just as the…
[Helpful note: This article assumes a knowledge of, and reveals details from, the plot of “Arrival.” Read at your own risk.] Source: Decoding the linguistic geekiness behind ‘Arrival’s’ sci-fi sheen – LA Times
New blockbuster film starring Amy Adams puts a lesser known field of study in the spotlight Source: For linguists, the new sci-fi film Arrival can’t come soon enough | Science | AAAS
“It’s an artistic idea of how complex a language could be, how different a language could be,” a linguist who worked on “Arrival” tells us. Source: How the alien language in ‘Arrival’ works according to linguist – Business Insider
A linguistics professor played by Amy Adams must decipher an alien language to save humanity in a new movie. Ben Zimmer goes behind the scenes on solving the riddle of communication. Source: In ‘Arrival,’ a Linguist is a Movie Hero – WSJ
Canadian “guerrilla” archivists will help in scramble to preserve US federal climate data. Source: Toronto ‘guerrilla’ archivists to help preserve US climate data – BBC News
ng, what the early 20th century anthropologist Edward Sapir once called an “elaborate code that is written nowhere, known to no one, and understood by all.” Source: Cracking the elaborate code – The Verge
Anonymous are back – this week the group hacked the Ku Klux Klan. This is a long-awaited and compelling study of the hactivist collective, writes Jamie Bartlett Source: Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman – review | Books | The Guardian
Researchers used heart rate monitors and GPS trackers to find out how much exercise the Hadza people get every day. It’s way more than most Americans. Source: Should we get as much exercise as the Hadza people? – Futurity
A new study adds to a growing body of research that suggests we might have been thinking about Parkinson’s disease wrong this whole time. Source: New evidence suggests Parkinson’s might start in the gut, not the brain – ScienceAlert
A few companies are offering mail-order testing to measure the length of people’s telomeres, the protective caps of DNA on the ends of chromosomes, which can signal disease risk and a need to take corrective measures. Source: Mail-Order Tests Check Cells for Signs of Early Aging – WSJ
Silicon Valley is cultivating relationships on the family farm, with coders, analysts and entrepreneurs eager to work in agriculture. Source: Silicon Valley cultivates a life on the American family farm
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