“If you want to do ayahuasca properly, reach out to this shaman.” That recommendation had landed me and two friends in Tarapoto, a small town in the middle of the Rainforest in Peru.
It took 20-hours to get there (and we would have to travel 20 hours back the same…
The rat race. It begins with your alarm jolting you out of deep sleep. You crawl out of bed and wince as you’re blinded by lights your eyes weren’t prepared for. You get blasted by a cold wind as you open your front door onto a cold, dark morning. You…
Every COP meeting on climate change seems to be a tragic repeat no one wants to watch. The initial hope that this time will be different ends with disappointment. Since COP26 ended, the UN secretary-general has admitted the deal agreed upon is not adequate. The tragedy continues. …
One person, one vote is a basic foundation of modern democracy. Elections are the ultimate expression of that democratic right. But the voting patterns of pensioners and young people represent a weakness with the democratic system. Politically, the young and old want very different things, yet pensioners have a significant…
What would be the most terrifying thing you would never want to see? Maybe an army of the dead, how about a masked serial killer, or perhaps a melting ice sheet? The ice sheet doesn’t quite evoke the same feelings of terror. …
You often hear the routines of highly successful people and their highly productive lives. Each second is planned meticulously. They wake up at 4 am, do an intense workout, work 14 hour days, every single day. They digest books for breakfast, make millions, all while having enough time to raise…
It’s everywhere, and yet it’s nowhere. It forms the fabric of life, yet you can’t see it, feel it, or smell it. From microscopic bacteria to humans to trees, from the Earth to the Sun to the entire universe, everything exists due to laws governing energy. One of those laws…
Many people who voted to leave the EU hoped it would take Britain back to some promised land. Here was Britain saving £350 million a week that would otherwise have been sent to the EU; here was Britain taking back control of its borders; here was Britain making itself great…
In the land of opportunity, anyone can go from having nothing to everything. That idea — that legend — lies at the heart of the American dream. All it requires is some grit, determination, and hard work, and you can make it. Those who succeed in living the dream become…
The British Financier James Goldsmith once said it’s as if “the rich are enjoying champagne on the deck of the Titanic”. The Titanic was made famous due in part to the conviction it was unsinkable, only for it to sink on its maiden voyage, killing an estimated 1500 people. There…
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