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...

B.E.E. Serial

from MovieMaker Bret Easton Ellis Serializes New High School Serial Killer Story — on His Podcast by Tim Molloy For the last six episodes of his podcast, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has held readers rapt with an early 1980s story of Los Angeles...

The Oracle Returned

from The New Yorker Wikipedia, “Jeopardy!,” and the Fate of the Fact In the Internet age, it can seem as if there’s no reason to remember anything. But information doesn’t always amount to knowledge. By Louis Menand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxU2gEqrMf4 Is it...

The Largest Astronomy Book In The World

from National Geographic Why the Nasca lines are among Peru’s greatest mysteries The lines drawn in geometric patterns and distinct animal shapes across the Peruvian desert have inspired many theories over the years. Here’s what we know—and what remains to...