TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
He was the rightful heir to the North Korean throne – the first son born to the previous supreme leader Kim Jong-il. He was destined to succeed his father and take over at the helm of the reclusive communist state. He would command an army, have a nation’s wealth at his fingertips, and live the Read More…
50 years ago legalizing recreational cannabis anywhere in the United States was farfetched – it was the kind of thing only freaks and hippies spoke of with any real measure of seriousness. Today it is our reality… time passes, things change, drugs get legalized. Slowly but surely, the people are winning Ronald Reagan’s “war on drugs.” Read More…
Fun fact: human beings have been enjoying psychedelic mushrooms for tens of thousands of years. Rock paintings in North Africa dating back to 9000 BC portray indigenous people using psychedelic mushrooms. They are depicted (along with peyote and other magic cacti) in many Aztec and Mayan sculptures, and were referred to by Aztecs as teonanácatl, Read More…
Propaganda comes in many shapes and sizes – and our government seems to employ each one with taciturn precision: from popular artwork, to political ads, news, media, television shows, film and even music. “Psychological and informational operations” they’re called, America’s secret cerebral campaigns. In America’s recent past, psychological operations (or Psy-Ops) were not technically legal for the Read More…
There is a serious problem lurking in the jungle rivers of Colombia – a menace that was left in the wake of one of the world’s most infamous criminals, to torment and afflict the country that murdered him. It is a strange, and terrifying byproduct of a historic drug cartel; one final gift from the Read More…
While the American political system devolves before the watchful eyes of the world, while the Middle East continues their out-of-control spiral into violence and Kim Jong Un has his own men blown away with anti-aircraft guns, a group of scientists specializing in the search for intelligent, extraterrestrial life uncovered a puzzling, and altogether unexpected message Read More…
Cancer has become one of mankind’s greatest challenges. Despite years of research and virtually bottomless funding, the disease remains a mystery, the cure elusive. If there is any cause that is sure to generate profit, and stir people’s emotions, cancer is it. The quest for a cure has become a multi-billion dollar industry, a pursuit Read More…
Beneath the surface of the earth, in the far north, where winters freeze the land to its bones, lies a vast field of biological landmines waiting to be triggered and release their hazardous cargo. They are remnants of bygone eras that have remained dormant for centuries – until recently, that is. It sounds like science Read More…
Since the creation of the Turing machine in 1936 human beings have been on a strange trajectory. Computers changed history, granting us super-human abilities to calculate, communicate, formulate, and educate. They are perhaps the most functional and diverse tools ever created by man. And we have come to depend on the services they provide for Read More…
Amidst one of the most widespread and intense outbreaks of violence in the US, as civilians are being murdered by aggressive police, and police are gunned down by angry civilians, as protests fill the streets, and our criminal presidential candidates clamor to make promises about gun control and police training and peaceful protest, something happened Read More…