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The Aperture of Wonder
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
― Terry Pratchett
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Neanderthals liked to unwind after a hard day’s work hunter gathering by consuming psychoactive drugs, a new study has found.
A discovery of human hair strands at a burial site in Menorca, Spain has given us evidence of drug use in prehistoric times…
The findings uncovered a number of different alkaloid substances which came from nightshade plants.
They contain scopolamine and atropine which can cause hallucinations and out-of-body experiences, while ephedrine is a stimulant.
The cave also contained boxes patterned with psychedelic decorations, which could well have been decorated while neanderthals were under the influence.
— Harry Fletcher
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A satisfied consumer would be a disaster for the consumer society, for which needs must always be rising, must never end; consumers must be insatiable, perennial research for new products, greedy for new satisfactions in a market that constantly supplies new products…
