Donald D. Hoffman and the Mathematical Case for One Consciousness
Cognitive scientist Donald D. Hoffman has a radical vision of consciousness. He sees it not as something produced by the universe, but as the thing from which the universe appears.
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John Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia: The Grim Experiment That Predicted Society’s Collapse
If you were a scientist in the 1960s and had a flair for dramatic experimentation, you might do something like
Could Living Concrete Be the Future of Our Cities?
Imagine a world where skyscrapers heal their own wounds, streets breathe, and entire neighbourhoods are grown rather than built. Sound like the fever dream
Project MKOFTEN: CIA Mind-Control
In the late 1960s, at the crossroads where chemical labs meet intelligence agency paranoia, Project MKOFTEN emerged as a murky
Scientists Discover a “Third State” Between Life and Death
Death, we’ve always believed, is final. The curtain falls, the lights go out, the body cools. Yet somewhere in the
The Freaky Physics That Explains How UFOs Might Fly
If UFOs are real — and these days, even the Pentagon’s not laughing — then they are breaking every known
The Engineer Who Measured the Soul: The Strange Genius of Itzhak Bentov
In the twilight zone between the laboratory and the lotus flower lived a man named Itzhak Bentov — engineer, inventor, mystic, and
Arm Farms: Inside the Strange New Industry Teaching Robots to Be Human
In the half-light of a Chennai morning, where the air tastes faintly of diesel and ambition, a young man named
Project Pigeon: The Secret WWII Experiment That Turned Birds Into Bombs
In the spring of 1940, a young Harvard psychologist named B.F. Skinner looked out the window of a train and
Is Psychic Power Hidden in Our DNA? Inside Dr Dean Radin’s Quest for the Genes of the Supernormal
What if your ability to bend spoons, read minds, or dream tomorrow’s headlines wasn’t supernatural at all — just biological?
Ancient Worm Revived After 46,000 Years Frozen in Siberian Permafrost — and It’s Alive
The Defrosted Worm Reshaping the Limits of Life The permafrost of Siberia just flicked on an age-old light switch, and
Terence McKenna: Prophet of the Mushroom Age
In the half-light between science and sorcery, there once lived a man who claimed that language was a virus, time
AI’s Psychedelic Without the Trip: Silicon Valley’s Quest to Edit the Mind
If Aldous Huxley had been born in Palo Alto, he might have traded his mescaline for machine learning. Instead of The
Skywatcher.ai: The Company That Says It Can Talk to UFOs
There’s a new constellation in the world of UFO obsession, and it’s not up in the night sky — it’s
Why the Colour Purple is a Hallucination of Your Brain
Purple is a trickster. A velvet-cloaked con artist. The smooth-talking lounge singer of the spectrum, swaying in from stage left
Pat Price: The Policeman Who Claimed to Spy With His Mind
History has its eccentrics, but few straddle the line between earnest oddity and state-sponsored experiment quite like Pat Price, the former
The Stargate Project: When the CIA Tried to Read Minds in the 70s and 80s
The Cold War produced many absurdities. Nuclear stockpiles large enough to vaporise the planet twenty times over. Astronauts and cosmonauts
Lab-Grown Brain Cells Learn Pong—But Is This Science or Sci-Fi Creep Show?
In a story that sounds like it escaped from the cutting floor of Black Mirror, a bunch of brain cells in