Can’t Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World premieres on BBC iPlayer in February. We are living through strange days. Across Britain, Europe and America societies have become split […]
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Psychosonic
Arthur Brown talks about his innovative new project, using brain waves to directly create music for Psychosonic with performance partner and neurofeedback artist Luciana Haill. Arthur Brown is probably best known by most for his […]
Terraforming Ceres
Ditch the Red Planet and build a gargantuan floating habitat around the dwarf planet Ceres instead. In a yet to be peer-reviewed paper, astrophysicist Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki describes his […]
Understanding the African Continental Free Trade Area
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) came into effect on 1st January 2021, creating the trade agreement with the largest number of countries in the world. Africa does very little trade with itself as […]
How Wellness Influencers became Pro-Trump Rioters
On mainstream social platforms, QAnon mushroomed out from angry alt-righters to infect accounts previously dedicated to crystals, yoga, and manifesting. One of the stranger subplots in the long, weird story of 2020 is the millennial […]
Plants may Possess Intent
Research suggests that at least one type of plant – the french bean – may be more sentient than we give it credit for: namely, it may possess intent. The issue of whether or not […]
Russian Cosmism’s “Technocratic Traditionalism”
In Russia, Cosmism now serves as the basis for a syncretic ideology entitled “technocratic traditionalism” which combines technological modernity with religious conservatism. At the end of the 19th century, the Russian thinker Nikolai Fyodorov (1829-1903) […]
GM Unveils Flying Car Concept
General Motors showed off a single-seater electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft during its keynote CES address on Tuesday. Both vehicles are part of Cadillac’s Halo Portfolio and probably won’t be going into production […]
We Need a New Media System
If you sell culture war all day, don’t be surprised by the real-world consequences. The moment a group of people stormed the Capitol building last Wednesday, news companies began the process of sorting and commoditizing […]