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‘Ayahuasca is changing global environmental consciousness’
David Hill: Interview with US scientist Dennis McKenna on powerful Amazon hallucinogen, plant intelligence and environmental crises Ayahuasca, as it has come to be known internationally, is a plant medicine that has been used in the Amazon for centuries for healing and spiritual purposes. Renowned for the often extraordinary visions it induces – not to […]
Recep Tayyip Erdogan Fast Facts
(CNN)Here’s a look at the life of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president and former prime minister of Turkey. Personal:Birth date: February 26, 1954 Birth place: Istanbul, Turkey
Search engines’ role in radicalisation must be challenged, finds study
Nearly 500,000 online searches a month return Islamist material, says report that advocates multilateral approach to removing extremist sites More than 484,000 Google keyword searches a month from around the world, including at least 54,000 searches in the UK, return results dominated by Islamist extremist material, a report into the online presence of jihadism has […]
‘Jason Bourne’ reunites original band to play the fast-paced hits
(CNN)Much like its title character, “Jason Bourne” is an efficient automaton of a movie, stripping away any pesky qualifiers — “Identity,” “Supremacy,” “Ultimatum” — and getting down to what the whole exercise is about in the bare-bones title. Nine years after their last outing (and ignoring a misguided spinoff attempt), star/producer Matt Damon and director/co-writer […]
Buildup to Rio 2016 part of a chaotic and shameful tradition of Olympic hosts | David Goldblatt
Preparations have often been chaotic but Rios buildup may be the most disorderly yet and no matter how special the Games a disaster of unprecedented proportions will have already happened The final days of preparation before the first modern Games in Athens in 1896 offered many of the tropes that still structure Olympic coverage a […]