Maradona Gone

from GOAL Maradona: The making of a footballing legend by Daniel Edwards The Argentine hero celebrated his 60th birthday shortly before his untimely death on Wednesday, and Goal looks back on what made him such an icon  A legend, a man whose every word and...

Mushies Going Mainstream

from The Observer The Hunt For The Other Magic Ingredients In Magic Mushrooms By Chris Roberts Harvesting Mazatec psilocybin mushrooms from their growing tubs May 19, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. Joe Amon/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images In the late...

The Genius of M B-W

from Real Clear Politics Margaret Bourke-White’s True-to-Life Gift By Carl M. Cannon Eighty-four years ago today, a shiny and sophisticated pictorial publication hit the newsstands. The brainchild of Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, two prep school friends who ran...

Herzog’s Fireball

from Inside Hook What Does Werner Herzog Think About Trader Joe’s, Texas and Meteors? BY NADJA SAYEJ In 1954, a woman was hit by a grapefruit-sized meteorite while napping on the couch. Known today as the Sylacauga meteorite, this asteroid flew in through the ozone...

Brain Decoder

from NextGov Army-Funded Algorithm Decodes Brain Signals The algorithm is part of an effort to eventually establish a machine-brain interface. By Mila Jasper But researchers funded by the U.S. Army developed a machine-learning algorithm that can model and decode these...