Links of the Day

Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy

The Religion of AI

Why Artists’ Studios Often Go Up In Flames

The Strange History of Opiates in America: From Morphine for Kids to Heroin for Soldiers

Judas Has Had Lousy Press, As Prominent Clerics Call for a Reappraisal of the Disciple Who Betrayed Jesus

There’s a Name for When Our Language Evolves When It Acquires Negative Connotations

Should We Subject Presidential Candidates to Psychiatric Testing?

The Problem With Invisibility is the Blindness

After Moore’s Law: The Future of Computing

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Links of the Day

Does Anyone Remember Hillary Clinton’s Seance-Like Encounters With the Late Eleanor Roosevelt?

Return to Oz: The Most Controversial Magazine of the ’60s Goes Online

Why So Many Scientists Are So Ignorant

Even 500 Years After His Death, Hieronymus Bosch Still Hasn’t Lost His Appeal

We Drank Soma, We Became Immortal

The Victorians Regarded Charlotte Brontë As Course and Immoral

The Strange Case of William T. Horton

Not All Racists Monuments Should Be Torn Down

When It’s Good To Be Bad

Secret Caves Beneath Scottish Suburb May Have Been Used for Human Sacrifice

Are Cult Members Insane?

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Links of the Day

Psychic Archaeology

Inside the LSD Museum That the DEA Somehow Hasn’t Torn Into the Ground

Psychic Exposed NYDP Cop As a Pedophile

Minds Everywhere: Panpsychism Takes Hold In Science

The Differences Between Men’s and Women’s Brains

What UFOs Mean For People Who Don’t Trust Science

The Royal Mummies of Peru

American Utopianism: Short Lived, Much Loved

What We Can Learn From the Medieval Attitude Toward Pagans

The Psychology of the Breathtakingly Stupid Mistake

God Is Laughing At You

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Links of the Day

Sometimes Busting Myths Can Backfire

The “Grandaddy” of Modern Day Conspiracy Theories

Atheism Is As Natural To Humans As Religious Belief

How Hair Became a Fashionable Way to Remember the Dead

Why ISIS Hates the Sufis and Blows Up Their Shrines

Study Shows Taking LSD Leads To Improved Psychological Well-Being

Magic Mushrooms In North America: Before the Wassons

Insights From a Scientist Who Implants Fake Memories Into People’s Minds

To Take a Computer As an Apprentice: A Look At When Art Met Technology in 1971

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Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, 1974

 

Links of the Day

The History of Beheadings is the History of Political Debates Ending Poorly

Overachieving Japanese Farmers Make Terrifying Scarecrows

Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World?

Every Recording of Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie 1 Played at the Same Time

Chastity Belts: The Odd Truth About Locking Up Women’s Genitalia

Analyse Your Tone

The Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Abilities

The Psychical Research Foundation Needs Sitters

The Mysterious Folk Art of America’s Secret Societies

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Links for the Day

Prints of Darkness: Macabre Vintage Posters

The First Artificial Insemination Was an Ethical Nightmare

No, You Haven’t Read This Déjà Vu Story Before

Baltimore Psychologist Pioneers Team Using Psychedelics as Sacred Medicine

How Real Is Reality?

What the Psychic Twins Predict for This Year

The Fried Eggs of Jorge Luis Borges

Mathematicians Reveal the Best Way to Slice Pizza

Choosing Questions For Trivia is Not Trivial

Were Neanderthals Human?

It’s Been 50 Years Since Batman Went “Bam!”and “Pow”

The Brothers Vonnegut

Goodbye, Mister Bowie

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Links of the Day

Goodbye Vasectomy, Hello Sperm Switch

Dinosaurs Performed Dances to Woo Mates

How Contacting the Dead Became a Family Game

Looking for Aliens in All the Wrong Places

The Most Viewed File in the FBI’s Vault Has Nothing to Do with Roswell

Anti-Education by Frederick Nietzsche Review: Why Mainstream Culture, Not the Universities, Is Doing Our Best Thinking

How Scientists Hope to Find Alien Life

The Subculture of Medical Clowns

Here’s a New One — The CIA Assassinated JFK Over UFOs

Jaws Finds a New Home

How the Klan Got Its Hood

The Psychology of Going to War

Happy Birthday, Roy Batty!

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