Electric Bus

from The New Yorker The VW Bus Took the Sixties on the Road. Now It’s Getting a Twenty-first-Century Makeover Once, it sparked dreams of community and counterculture. What’s gained—and lost—when flower power is electrified? By Jill Lepore The new version of the...

LST

from VICE The Long, Strange Relationship Between Psychedelics and Telepathy It’s impossible to tell the story of psychedelics without telepathy. How will these experiences fit into psychedelics’ mainstream, medical future? By Shayla Love GEORGEPETERS FOR GETTY...

Brain On Idle

from WIRED The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details. by ALLISON WHITTEN When food has been in short supply for a...

In Praise of GWAR

from The Daily Beast via MSN The Heavy Metal Band Showering Fans With Blood and Semen by Nick Schager There has never been, nor will there ever be, anyone like GWAR, the metal outfit hailing from Richmond, Virginia, who dress up as space barbarians, act out all manner...