To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...
The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
A few weeks ago, Harper’s magazine interviewed former Richard Nixon's advisor John Ehrlichman, who admitted that President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs was in...
Oregon became the first state in the United States to decriminalized all drugs. Will the radical move shift the failed war on drugs in the right direction?
In recent years you may have encountered the term ‘Holotropic Breathwork’, most likely in an article about altered states of consciousness that has all...
In 2001, in the midst of a heroin crisis, Portugal's government took the radical step of decriminalizing the possession and consumption of all illegal...
A recent study suggests that anti-cancer drugs in the US are significantly overpriced, and that even with research and development costs considered, these elevated...
