Articles: research

Magic Mushrooms: A History

When the word “mushroom” comes to mind, “magic” isn’t far behind. But what started this almost immediate association between mushrooms and illicit drugs? While there are some…

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Fungi: All Around and Among Us

Fungi are fundamental to life. As decomposers, they are critical to the formation and sustenance of soils and ecosystems. As endlessly innovative chemists, they devise and secrete…

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What If Schools Nurtured Imagination?

Imagination is central to empathy, to creating better lives, to envisioning and then enacting a positive future. Yet imagination is also demonstrably in decline at precisely the…

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Limits to Growth and the COVID-19 epidemic

It comes to no surprise to anyone that the human population continues to grow, rapidly. However, there is a limit to that growth that we don’t quite…

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LDN Treatment Helps to Kill Cancer Cells

According to a report in The International Journal of Oncology, giving low dose naltrexone (LDN)  to cancer patients can improve the immune system’s ability to kill cancerous…

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