These are a selection of articles that I think are cool or interesting.
*Our Family Garden – Building A Living Monument To Heal The Scars Of War – this is one of the most beautiful and inspirational stories I have ever read…and I’m cynical.
*The Best Board Games Of The Ancient World – Smithsonian Magazine.
*The Pleiades – Celestial Herd Of Ancient Timekeepers.
*What To Wear To A Riot – by Pippa Malmgren – sharp & incisive take on the messages we can glean from the latest fashion trends.
*AIDS and the AZT Scandal – the original 1989 Spin magazine article Sins Of Omission. This is stunning and relevant.
*Navigating The Paradigm – Torus Plasma Domains – I don’t understand this but it’s fascinating.
*The Radical, 6000 Year Evolution Of Tarot Art
*Wu – The Female Shamans of Ancient China
*A Giant Wall Of Galaxies Has Been Found Stretching Across the Universe (from 2020, but mind-boggling – how did I miss this?)
* Pluto in Aquarius (2023-2044) is potentially decentralized. It’s the trend to be across. This piece by development economist Richard Werner is the most cogent “what” and “why” explanation.
*At 80, Judy Chicago Is Finally Being Celebrated – Fuqing Epic Way To Go Into Uranus Return.
* The Idiosyncratic Writings Of Leonora Carrington, A Reluctant Surrealist
* The Hidden Occult History of Moldavite
* Ketamine and the Return of the Party-State – Palladium
* Why Rosaleen Norton, the witch of King’s Cross, was a groundbreaking Bohemian.
*Lightning could be caused by galactic cosmic particles generated by ancient interstellar events.
* The Antikythera Mechanism still works! This is an amazingly in-depth article on the Antikythera Mechanism, the mysterious device recovered from an ancient shipwreck, how it is a precise predictor of Eclipses.
* From 1978 – Evidence Linking The Origin Of Writing & Mathematics To A Star – I think it’s Canopus, not the supernova talked about in this article. And the Argo Navis constellation should never have been broken up.
* A Little Razzle-Dazzle To Juke The Algos – Adbusters – global financial fuqery.
* Scientists Observe Live Cells Responding To Magnetic Fields For The First Time – this is important!
* What Causes The Fresh Smell Before A Storm?
* Wikipedia’s Hypnagogia and Dream Yoga pages.
* Epic Tori Amos interview ranging across art, magic, aging, maintaining creative longevity, menopause & the industry.
* Super-informative and objective 2017 take on the so-called Internet of Things – FYI I was an early adopter and now I’m out, one of the disconnectors – not from the internet – just bluetoothed everything, Wi-Fi whether you want it or not & being compulsorily connected to manufacturers/data-brokers.
* Ghost Streams – important!
*A beautifully written explanation of Earth’s magnetic shield and how it works.
* Weirdness Is Your Best Weapon – Douglas Rushkoff.
* Relearning The Starlore Of Indigenous Peoples.
* Water Sign Women: Cool conversation between Glenn Close & Whoopi Goldberg.
* A Saturn talisman from 1583!
* Aniara – an epic (literally) science fiction poem that is (warning) gut-wrenchingly poignant but brilliantly written.
*An Extremely Detailed Take on Folklore Around Hair Cutting & the Disposal Of Cut Hair.
* Naval Ravikant’s famous “How To Get Rich” Tweet Storm – contemporary, quality success advice.
* Light Pollution as Cultural Genocide – a vital and amazing read.
*The Millions – by Deborah Taffa, a totally fresh take on Manchu Picchu.
* Crystals, Karma & Soul Magic With Erykah Badu.
* Beyond Silent Spring – An Alternative History Of DDT. This is about far more than just DDT – it’s like a history of public health scares and an erudite, nuanced take on government health policies and our culture around that.