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In 2016, the 'First Legal Ayahuasca Church' Got Shut Down. Was It a Scam—or a...
The view from Ayahuasca Healings' Elbe retreat. (Photo: Gabriel Ng/Just 2 Guys Creative)When people drink ayahuasca tea, the psychoactive, plant-based Amazonian drink, they have visions. Sometimes,...
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Dymaxion Car at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada
One of innovator and creator Buckminster Fuller's ideas to use design to improve humanity was the Dymaxion Car.Part of his "dymaxion" line of inventions, its name a mix of dynamic, maximum, and...
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South Union Shaker Village in Auburn, Kentucky
A Shaker colony settled it roots in southwestern Kentucky for over 100 years, until dwindling resources and deserting Believers led to its sale in 1922. Of the over 200 buildings raised, only nine...
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A Retired Teacher Built a Perfect Scale Map of China on His Terrace
An excellent map of China. (Photo: Reddit user wildeastmofo)For a year, a retired teacher in China worked on the project on his terrace—a scale map of the country, more than 30 feet wide.Each province...
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Conductor Stops Train After His Work Shift Ends, Stranding 109 Passengers...
Later, losers (train conductor not pictured). (Photo: skeeze/Public Domain)Most everyone has dreamt of having that Jerry Maguire moment, when you get to just walk out of your job, but that fantasy gets...
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Arctic Sea Ice Is At Its Second Lowest Minimum on Record
Arctic sea ice extent. (Image: NASA/Public domain)The expanse of ice in the Arctic appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, and it's the second lowest record in the record of satellite...
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Was Your Salad Fork Made in a Former Utopia?
Oneida: from eugenics experiments to silverware giant. (Photo: Will Culpepper/CC BY-SA 2.0)American history is littered with stories of failed utopian communities that tried to bring new ways of living...
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Pasaquan in Marion County, Georgia
Founded by a man named St. EOM (nee Eddie Owens Martin), the psychedelic collection of buildings collectively known as Pasaquan was created at the behest of three beings from the future who came to the...
View ArticleListen to the Surprisingly Goofy Voice of a Neanderthal
When we imagine Neanderthals, we typically picture them like much dirtier, hairier versions of ourselves. Imaginative depictions of Homo neanderthalensis usually mean fur pelts, cave paintings, heavy...
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The Mystery of Van Gogh's Final Breakdown Will Probably Never Be Solved
Van Gogh's famous Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889). (Photo: Public domain)Even though Vincent Van Gogh began acting increasingly strangely during the final year and a half of his life, he...
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Maison d'Ailleurs in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Maison d'Ailleurs, or the "House of Elsewhere," revolves around extraordinary journeys—of the mind, at least. It is a museum of science fiction, utopias, and other futurist writings.The museum has had...
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How America’s First Popular Comic Shaped the 19th Century Newspaper Wars
(Photo: San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum)In 1896, Richard F. Outcault, or, as he was known professionally, R.F....
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Empire of Atlantium in Reids Flat, Australia
The Empire of Atlantium is the world's "foremost aspirant extraterritorial, transnational, intercultural, panarchist state." If that sounds like a load of heady political posturing, that's because it's...
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The NSA Has Files on a Country That Doesn’t Exist
(Photo: Deror avi)A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.A couple years ago, Robert Delaware requested from the NSA any entries from its Intellipedia - the agency’s internal answer...
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Garden of Eden Trail in Bristol , Florida
In the 1950s retired lawyer and Republican candidate for governor Elvy Edison Callaway opened his Garden of Eden Park along the highway in the Florida Panhandle town of Bristol. Callaway believed that...
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Letchworth Village in Thiells, New York
The hamlet of Thiells, New York, about 40 miles north of Manhattan, is a quiet, unassuming place nestled in the rolling hills of Rockland County, not far from the Hudson River. It has a peaceful, small...
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10 Bars at the End of the World
Vernadsky Station on Galindez Island, Antarctica. (Photo: Christopher/CC BY 2.0)People have found ways to live in the most inhospitable places on Earth. Nearly immediately after finding a way to...
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My Mom Grew Up in a Utopian Colony in Iowa
Bridge over Mill Race, the canal that stretches through the Amana Colonies in Iowa. (Photo: Carl Wycoff/CC BY 2.0)From my hometown of Toronto the drive to Amana, the dismantled utopian colony in Iowa,...
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Poland Digs Up a Nazi Time Capsule
Inside the time capsule. (Photo: Zlocieniec)What do a group of Nazis put in a time capsule?In 1934, in the Polish town of Zlocieniec, then part of Germany, Hitler's Nazi party was putting up a new...
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See 8 Fascinating Ruins of Space Exploration
The Mohon del Trigo Observatory in Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountains. (Photo: Jebulon/Public Domain)Our relationship with the stars stretches back to the first person ever to look up and wonder, what's...
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