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‘Magic Mushroom’ Drug Shows Promise in Treating Addictions and Cancer Anxiety
Suspended for decades after controversial results, research on the hallucinogen psilocybin is showing early promise in a new series of small studies.
The Black Marble: The Earth’s Iconic Image Gets a Nighttime Update
The iconic 'Blue Marble' view of Earth has been knocked out of the game by NASA’s latest image.
A Future Without Potatoes: Will Climate Change Force Us To Change What We Eat?
The United Nations committee on world food security has issued an alarming new report on the impact of global warming we may have to stop eating potatoes and get...
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Chvez Wins, but His Power Is Slipping 1 | VENEZUELA Although socialist President Hugo Chvez routed his centrist challenger, Henrique Capriles Radonski, 55% to...
George McGovern: His Life and Career, from the Pages of TIME
The South Dakota-born former Senator died at the age of 90
Uruguay Diverges from a Continent Where Abortion is a Crime Worse than Rape
To better understand the importance of what Uruguay’s Congress did this week, consider what Argentina’s Supreme Court had to do last week. It ruled that a woman...
Facing Crackdowns in the E.U., Hookers Find Sanctuary in Switzerland
The world’s oldest profession is now represented by a labor union in Geneva. It also has much more perks than the rest of Europe—or the world
Hugo Chávez Wins Big, Gives Rivals Six More Years To Climb Out of Their Hole
Henrique Capriles Radonski and his supporters can take only one, very small consolation from the results of Sunday’s presidential election in Venezuela. The...
Russia Reveals Vast Secret Diamond Reserves
Scientists of the Russian Academy of Science are claiming that a secret diamond deposit in Russia’s remote Northeast contains “trillions of carats” of the rare...
Taste Invaders
One of the biggest threats to endangered species isn't hunting or climate change or pollution. It's other animals--specifically, invasive species that overrun...
Papo & Yo Review: A Heartbreaking Meditation on Alcoholism and Child Abuse
Don't get that title wrong, Papo & Yo is still a video game through and through: It has climbable ladders, autosaving, platforms you tap a gamepad to jump...
Frog Juice: Horse Racing’s New Doping Scandal
More than 30 horses have now tested positive for an illegal performance-enhancing substance that makes even the grossest doping scandal of human athletes pale in...
Hot Travel Trend: Bunk Beds in Boutique Hotels
Bunk beds are associated with “The Brady Bunch,” IKEA catalogs, and summer camp. But hip urban hotels? Travelers tend to encounter bunk beds only in a select few...
The Transit of Venus: 2012 Gets Another Celestial Showstopper
Venus is making a rare move this week – so rare that it won’t happen again until 2117. In an event known as the “Transit of Venus”, the solar system’s second...
Death to “Resource Wars”!
Nice Washington Post piece on Saturday about how the “center of gravity” in global oil exploration and production is shifting to the Western hemisphere. No, the...
Feeding the Planet Without Destroying It
Climate change is the environmental problem that obsesses us, the one that's the focus of high-flying international summits and hardcore national politics. But...
Temple of Doom: Scientists Discover Peruvian Tomb Filled with Mummies, Infants
While excavating the pre-hispanic Pachacama site on the Pacific coast of Peru, a team of archaeologists from Brussels recently made a huge — and eerie —...
How Did Ancient South American Skulls End Up in a Florida Backyard?
Generally, when a plumber finds skulls in your backyard, it’s not a good sign. Thankfully for one Floridan family, the discovery wasn’t a sign of foul play but...
A Gourmet Food's Growing Pains
Over the past decade, Quinoa, one of the few crops that thrive on Bolivia's high plains, 13,000 ft. above sea level, has become a pinnacle product for foodies,...
Meet the ‘Steely’ Woman Who Booted 11 Secret Service Agents from Colombia
Leave it to a woman to keep the boys in line. According to the Washington Post, a top female member of the Secret Service was responsible for booting 11 agents...
