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Hope in the Modern World
Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The impact of the explosion blew Sadako out of her bedroom window and she very nearly died. Though she survived the blast, the radiation eventually gave her leukemia and doctors insisted that she wouldn’t live longer than a year. Sadako’s story so…
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Aliens, Death Threats and a Free Flight to Brazil
After he offered to pay my way to Brazil, I took the bait and told him to book the tickets. He said he’d email me the details on getting the free ticket, and that I’d have plenty of time to contemplate my errors while in the emergency room. I didn’t realise yet how deep this man’s hatred went, and…
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The Dark World of Balinese Cockfighting
On an otherwise uneventful day in Bali, I found myself standing in the sweaty crowd of an illegal cockfight. Being the only white person present, I was left wondering what I was doing there, and more importantly, why I was betting money. I know many of you reading this are already reaching for your pitchforks and blazing torches, and that’s…
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Guide to Vice Magazine
Here’s my take on Vice’s 311-page “best of” edition, covering all 72 issues from 2003 to 2008. If this is their best of the best, I wanted to see how good it really was. I’ll be covering the first 100 pages, which contain three sections: ‘Vice Guides,’ sex, and lastly, drugs. Each Vice article will have…
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Guide to Writing Fiction
A plot is the skeleton of a story, and is therefore essential to any work of fiction. If you plan on writing a story without a plot, don’t even expect your mother to read it, yet alone the rest of the world. In this guide, we’re going to outline a bulletproof formula to plan and…
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How to Prepare for a Psychedelic Trip
A psychedelic experience is a journey to new realms of consciousness. The scope and content of the experience is limitless, but its characteristic features are the transcendence of verbal concepts, of spacetime dimensions, and of the ego or identity. This guide is a map on how to best prepare for and navigate such a journey.
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The Psychology of Child Development
Child development is an area of psychology overflowing with zany theories and crazy ideas (cough, Freud, cough). In all seriousness though, child development is one of the most interesting topics in psychology to learn about and is also, arguably, the most important, as just about everything that we think and do today as adults has…
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Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson is a mind-blowing neuropsychological manual on how to reprogram your own brain. The book combines Timothy Leary’s Eight Circuit model of consciousness and psychological imprinting and conditioning theory to construct a strange but enlightening lens for viewing the world and our place in it.
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How to Build Your Own IKEA Pedalboard
Over the years I’ve acquired a decent collection of pedals, and while it was easily manageable when I only had a wah and overdrive pedal, once the rest of them rolled in I found myself tangled in cables and power adaptors. I knew I needed a pedalboard but I also knew if I could afford…
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