Understanding ego death: Psychedelics can be haunting and humbling for some people — but for others it inflates their egos. Why?

Understanding ego death: Psychedelics can be humbling for some people — but for others it inflates their egos. Why?

Rich Haridy | Salon | 
A commonly recounted experience with psychedelics is that it dissolves one’s ego, blurring the boundaries between ourselves and others ...
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Octopuses are incredibly intelligent creatures. Should they receive more protection against scientific experimentation?

Matthew Rozsa | Salon | 
According to Dr. Barbara J. King, professor emerita of anthropology at the College of William & Mary and author of ...
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How heirloom seeds help preserve genetic diversity

Lauren David | Salon | 
Safeguarding heirlooms may be more important now than ever, as the full scope of our current biodiversity emergency continues to come into ...
Can we ‘vacuum carbon dioxide from the atmosphere’ to fight global warming?

Can we ‘vacuum carbon dioxide from the atmosphere’ to fight global warming?

Elizabeth Hlavinka | Salon | 
In August, the Biden Administration granted $1.2 billion in federal funding to kickstart a project intended to vacuum carbon dioxide up ...
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‘Like veins in a leaf, rather than branches on a tree’: Updated human origin model illuminates how Homo sapiens arose in Africa

Carlyn Zwarenstein | Salon | 
There's a promising new model for human origins in Africa — but scientists don't quite know what to do with ...
From a ‘chemical soup’ to complex life: Understanding the beginning of evolution of life on Earth

From a ‘chemical soup’ to complex life: Understanding the beginning of evolution of life on Earth

Troy Farah | Salon | 
Did evolution occur before life even existed? New research illuminates the ancient processes from which the first life arose on ...
Grains, coffee and citrus are among foods threatened by rising temperatures. Some species may go completely extinct without new solutions

Grains, coffee and citrus are among foods threatened by rising temperatures. Some species may go completely extinct without new solutions

Matthew Rozsa | Salon | 
There are some ways in which we can definitely expect climate change to alter what we eat. Here are some ...
With climate change accelerating spread of aflatoxin mold in Midwest corn, farmers look to genetically modified seeds as key solution

With climate change accelerating spread of aflatoxin mold in Midwest corn, farmers look to genetically modified seeds as key solution

Diana Kruzman | Salon | 
Climate change is expanding the reach of aflatoxin, a chemical produced by a gray-green mold that infects corn crops and ...
A transgender woman says she’s breastfeeding her daughter during the formula shortage. Is that possible?

A transgender woman says she’s breastfeeding her daughter during the formula shortage. Is that possible?

Matthew Rozsa | Salon | 
As America's baby formula shortage continues to inspire scammers and politicians alike, parents have become desperate for solutions. Sometimes they get so creative ...
Red-fleshed apples: The story behind the genetic anomaly with health and nutritional benefits

Red-fleshed apples: The story behind the genetic anomaly with health and nutritional benefits

Joy Saha | Salon | 
To an unsuspecting consumer, these delicate apples could easily be mistaken for the commonplace Gala or Braeburn varieties.  But inside, ...
‘This a crop that not only does not exist in the wild, but could not exist in the wild’: Modern corn is humanity’s creation, for mostly better and some worse

‘This a crop that not only does not exist in the wild, but could not exist in the wild’: Modern corn is humanity’s creation, for mostly better and some worse

Matthew Rozsa | Salon | 
While the 1,500 miles of America's corn belt might mislead you into thinking corn is a wild crop, it was ...
More than 50% of Americans accept the science of evolution — but only 32% of fundamentalist Christians

More than 50% of Americans accept the science of evolution — but only 32% of fundamentalist Christians

Matthew Rozsa | Salon | 
Americans are more scientifically literate than ever in 2021 — so much so that creationism has become a minority opinion. And ...
Viewpoint: Might embracing fake news and conspiracy theories serve as an evolutionary survival strategy?

Viewpoint: Might embracing fake news and conspiracy theories serve as an evolutionary survival strategy?

Paul Rosenberg | Salon | 
Human beings have an evolutionary history, and deception is commonplace in the animal world because it confers evolutionary advantage. There's ...
‘If humans are so smart, why do women menstruate? Who thought that was a good idea?’ Interview with ‘Evolution Gone Wrong’ author Alexander Bezzerides

‘If humans are so smart, why do women menstruate? Who thought that was a good idea?’ Interview with ‘Evolution Gone Wrong’ author Alexander Bezzerides

Mary Elizabeth Williams | Salon | 
Okay, humans, if we're so smart, why do our backs hurt so much? Why do we cry? And menstruation, who ...
Viewpoint: Evolution is more than a Darwinian 'selfish gene' battle to the death

Viewpoint: Evolution is more than a Darwinian ‘selfish gene’ battle to the death

Jeremy Lent | Salon | 
The idea that selfishness and greed are drivers of evolution, and therefore possess underlying virtue, has been around for over ...
Life on Earth originated on Mars? Here’s the intriguing case

Life on Earth originated on Mars? Here’s the intriguing case

Nicole Karlis | Salon | 
Though the idea that life started on Mars before migrating on Earth sounds like some far-fetched sci-fi premise, many renowned ...
Understanding the ‘post-truth’ world: Is cognitive bias hard-wired?

Understanding the ‘post-truth’ world: Is cognitive bias hard-wired?

Lee McIntyre | Salon | 
One of the deepest roots of post-truth has been with us the longest, for it has been wired into our ...
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Are all anti-vaxxers kooks? Here is one couple’s journey to vaccine rejection and what might change their minds

Jonathan Berman | Salon | 
Anti-vaccine parents are deeply concerned with being good parents. They are college educated and usually members of the middle class ...
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CRISPR breakthrough — gene edited lizards

Nicole Karlis | Salon | 
According to a study published in the journal Cell Reports [August 27], a group of scientists at the University of Georgia successfully ...
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While managed honeybees get all the attention, some native pollinators ‘dwindle toward extinction’

Nathanael Johnson | Salon | 
Those honeybees you’ve been fretting over are getting native bumblebees sick. A new study shows that viruses infecting domestic honeybees ...
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Viewpoint: Even as a doctor, I didn’t understand my 23andMe breast cancer risk analysis

Pamela Munster | Salon | 
Anyone can order 23andMe — with less than $150 and a small tube of saliva, you can learn much about ...
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De-extinction debate: Why we should bring back the woolly mammoth

Katherine Clover | Salon | 
De-extinction is just what it sounds like: taking a species that has gone extinct, and through cloning or genetic engineering, ...
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Viewpoint: Vertical farming not nearly as feasible as popular media reports

Stan Cox | Salon | 
[In] their efforts to develop a system that sustainably supplies cities with a large share of their food, theorists and ...
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Food Evolution director defends documentary as pro-data, pro-science

Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Tom Roston | Salon | 
[Scott Hamilton] Kennedy goes deep here with his answers to Salon’s questions, judiciously explaining what others might consider blasphemy. ...
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DNA testing can take you on the ride of your lifetime

David Updike | Salon | 
Genealogy — thanks in part to genetic testing of companies like Ancestry.com, National Geographic and the PBS series “Finding Your ...

Modern food technologies let us choose to spend time in the kitchen, or not to

Jayson Lusk | Salon | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to a new ...
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EWG Verified: Anti-GMO Environmental Working Group rolling out big bucks food scare label

Jenny Splitter | Salon | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The strange thing about ...

‘Making a Murderer’ touches on twisted history of white supremacy, eugenics

Kate Tuttle | Salon | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Everyone in the world, ...
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