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Magic mushrooms changed her life. After taking them in Amsterdam, Lena Russell felt in tune with herself and the world. So much so that she decided to move from England to the United States to pursue a career in psychedelic assisted health care. But in the days after the trip, she also felt curious about what had happened to her...

Riccardo Cenedella is a designer and furniture maker, whose work focuses on repurposing waste material. As part of his postgraduate program at Central Saint Martins in London, Cenedella experimented with transforming locally sourced carpet waste into bespoke pieces of furniture.

The toilet is one of the most important innovations of modern life. Still, around 2 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services. To make matters worse, human factors – from plastic waste and toxic pollution to climate change and overpopulation – add an enormous strain on the toilet systems that do exist. Despite this gloomy scenario, Chelsea Wald, science...

We’re biased, but you need to read this. While reporting about sex and relationships for Mashable, most recently amid an ongoing pandemic, our senior culture reporter Rachel Thompson went and wrote a whole book on the topic. Rough, out now through Square Peg and Vintage, is Thompson’s first book and examines an important, intersectional issue: how sexual violence has found...

NASA scientist Josh Willis flew over Greenland this week, and gazed at a sprawling polar world of melted ice and dark pools of water. In mid-August, a potent heat wave melted large swathes of the Greenland ice sheet, which is three times the size of Texas. It’s a vivid sign of changing times, and climes. In recent decades, Arctic scientists...

The Other Two is finally returning with its second season, over two years since its first season premiered on Comedy Central. After all this time, and a move to HBO Max, has this satirical take on show business maintained its sharpness and relevance? It absolutely has. Season 2 of The Other Two, created by former Saturday Night Live head writers...

As a video game, Aliens: Fireteam Elite does absolutely nothing special, original, or, really, memorable. That doesn’t mean it’s not a good time, though. This debut effort from Cold Iron Studios is decidedly more for fans of Aliens than Alien, which is to say it leans on sci-fi action over sci-fi horror and your arsenal is the functional main character....

A few weeks back, my father-in-law was looking for a trespassing sign. Their house has a dock and people had snuck onto it at 1 a.m., clearly imbibing. Late night, no light, alcohol, and open water is never a good idea. He wasn’t mad, but a sign to keep people safe seemed prudent. So we went to Etsy to find...

If we had a list of most underrated cold opens from The Office, the opening of “The Duel” would absolutely make the cut. In the latest episode of the Office Ladies podcast, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey chatted all about the Season 5 episode, which opens with the cast racing each other in front of a speed radar sign on...

Not that long ago, if you were a runner in the market for a wearable, your options were limited to a handful of brands, each with a few models, max. With any of them, you could expect questionable accuracy, bare bones features, limited battery life, and very little comfort. (My first GPS-equipped watch was about the size of a hockey...