February 2012
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Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your... →
Polyurethane seemed like it couldn’t interact with the earth’s normal processes of breaking down and recycling material. That’s just because it hadn’t met the right mushroom yet.
The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One of them, carried home recently by a group from Yale University, appears to be quite happy eating plastic in airless landfills.
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January 2012
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As Above, So Below: Upcycling's Upshot: How Urban... →
In domestic relationships, one of the quickest ways to butter up your partner is by taking out the trash. In business, removing festering piles of waste also makes you the sort of person who’s gets missed when you’re not around.
In 2009, Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez were recent graduates of the University of California at Berkeley who had both been offered positions in consulting and...
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“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of...”
– Jim Morrison (via experience-electric-ladyland)
December 2011
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October 2011
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“Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is...”
– Tom Robbins
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“Most people find the word Apocalypse, to be a terrfying concept. Checked in the...”
– Alan Moore
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September 2011
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Watch‘DIRTY PICTURES (2010) is a documentary about Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, the rogue chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA (aka Ecstasy) and over 200 other mind-altering drugs. Shulgin’s alchemy has earned him the title “The Godfather of Psychedelics,” and a reputation as one of the great chemists of the 20th century.
Working from a lab in his home, and using himself and his...
August 2011
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This joint: Massive Attack on the London riots →
“In context with the complicit support of the government, the banks looted the nation’s wealth while destroying countless small businesses and brought the whole economy to its knees in a covert, clean manner, rather like organised crime. Our reaction was to march and wave banners and then bail them out. These kids would have to riot and steal every night for a year to run up a bill...
July 2011
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“The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly...”
– Tom Robbins
June 2011
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May 2011
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February 2011
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“There’s more beauty in truth even if it is dreadful beauty. The storytellers at...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
January 2011
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“Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.”
– Kakuzo Okakura
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December 2010
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November 2010
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“Let go or be dragged.”
– Zen Proverb (via oceanofmind)
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“there is a place in the heart that
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– Bukowski - no help for that
October 2010
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WatchBREAKDOWN, a mashup of thousands of public domain samples, is the ageless tale of corrupt power-seekers perpetrating hideous deceptions on gullible masses.
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September 2010
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August 2010
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“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– Banksy