Cross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry’s bottom line

Author Michael Pollan returns for a discussion on the most intriguing questions at the intersection of psychedelics and consciousness.

Michael Pollan explores consciousness, plant intelligence, psychedelics, the gut microbiome, and how our relationship with nature and food shapes our health.

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Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.

Lawler discusses new archeological tools for studying psychoactive plant residues.

This is the week that someone pulled the fire alarm on AI. It began with industry employee Jacob Coxon issuing a dire warning: "I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote on Twitter/X. "I spent the la...

Policies enacted by RFK Jr have not delivered the expected results, but have instead hindered people’s ability to eat healthy

What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness?

On second thought, I’m not that hungry.

Plus: Ketamine seized at the UK border hits record high; an Arizona ibogaine trial; Study reveals cell signaling that differentiates hallucinogens and non-hallucinogens

Participants, often in vulnerable states, have little recourse if mistreated or injured.

The federal government was supposed to release a definition of ultraprocessed foods. What happened?

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Plus: Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly makes a psychedelics acquisition; Cardiovascular safety is top of mind for psychedelics researchers

Author Michael Pollan returns for a discussion on the most intriguing questions at the intersection of psychedelics and consciousness.

Author Michael Pollan returns for a discussion on the most intriguing questions at the intersection of psychedelics and consciousness.

Ham discusses doing interviews with clinical trial participants who didn’t experience substantial benefits.

How the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace ibogaine, a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub.

With 'A World Appears', Michael Pollan goes after the most elusive question of consciousness itself. It’s not about neuroscience or the philosophy of consciousness alone, but a deep dive into the very...

Ten combat sports fighters suffering from traumatic brain injuries went to Medellín, Colombia, for eight days of psychedelic neuroplasticity-enhancing treatment. The lessons could benefit all of us.

Following toad poachers across the Sonoran Desert

Waiting for a disaster to save us.

Barack Obama's annual summer reading list is out, and we agree with many of his 5-star picks. Here's what his taste in books reveals.

The author of A World Appears discusses the microbiome, AI, and literature in relation to a fundamental human question.

“All That’s Unseen,” by Emilee Hackney, an eighth-generation Appalachian, offers a portrait both loving and cleareyed of the region that formed her.

Hashemi discusses her approach to drug education and what students want to know about psychedelics.

Jorie Graham’s poem in our December 5, 2024, issue begins: The Killing Spree whizzed past, we liked the look of it, it liquefieddeath, it was here to

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Plus: Study finds personality traits may shape the intensity of psychedelic sensory experiences

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Laura Mullen “Then the rain came and we thought it / might clean us. / It did not clean us.” In his Theses on History, Walter Benjamin described a painting by P…