Scientists are reporting today that they have overcome a major obstacle to using a promising alternative to embryonic stem cells, bolstering the prospects for bypassing the political and ethical tempest that has embroiled hopes for a new generation of medical treatments. The researchers said they found a safe way to coax adult cells to regress into [...]

Are you an Internet ad sales person, tired of repping only hum drum dating, sports, and gaming sites? Would you like to spice up the mundane grind of your daily sales calls? Well, Reality Sandwich is looking for two or three experienced, professional, commission ad sales representatives to join our team of dedicated evolutionaries. Connect with great people and companies aligned with our social mission while helping your favorite web magazine pay some bills.

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Itching to put a dent in our "hyper-capitalist" society's dominant values of competition, greed, and exploitation? You might be interested in Radical Urban Sustainability Training, or R.U.S.T.

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On Sept. 18, the news from CERN, the organization that runs the LHC, was that an electrical problem involved with a cooling system caused a helium leak that would keep the mammoth particle accelerator out of commission for a day or so. A couple of days later, the estimate had stretched into two months: The [...]

It’s nearly impossible to talk about shamanism in New York City without bringing up the name Itzhak Beery.  Born in Israel, Beery was initiated into the family tradition of a powerful Quechuan Yachak from Ecuador and has studied under the Brazilian elder Ipupiara and Peruvian curandera Cleicha.  As a founding member of the NY Shamanic Circle and the NY Annual Shamanic

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A team of astronomers based in the MIT Haystack Observatory created a continent-sized telescope “capable of seeing details more than 1000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope.” It was created by combining signals from four radio telescopes spread out in Arizona, California, and Hawaii.

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Great series of articles on possession and the artist. “In a beautifully written and highly interesting recent post on his interview with Mark Stewart for The Wire, Mark K-Punk writes: “…one link between the post-punk trio I wrote about in the July issue (Stewart, Mark E Smith, Ian Curtis) is channeling. In order to get at what [...]

Found in an old, dilapidated copy of “Good Omens”, possibly from a convention held long, long ago: “Room Party, Friday night at 9:30, Room 3064, Hosted by Bruce Schneier; Come celebrate the publication of another travelogue, and whatever else we can think of worth celebrating.” It must of been a great party because I can’t remember [...]

Cultures are continuously evolving myths through their own imaginations, all while sharing a collective source of information. The strongest, most potent myths have risen from the land or atmosphere; gods and mythic tales correspond wholly with the dreamer's environment or evolutionary story. The current "massive mythic expression" is rooted in fear, governmental control, technology, the internet, and, for the sake of this article, video games.

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There has been a lot of talk about various forms of “collapse” lately -- economic, ecological, political -- and many of us are involved in ongoing conversations, arguments, debates, and the like about said same.

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“Classic film fans lock up your daughters, take up your wooden stakes and prepare to battle the forces of darkness: Hammer Films has announced it’s called action on its first horror production for over 30 years. Principal photography began today in County Donegal on The Wake Wood, featuring Eva Birthistle, Aidan Gillen and Timothy Spall. [...]

  The Lords of Bakersfield. Until recently, it was a little remembered local legend, of interest mostly to conspiracy theorists. [...]

The "Alaskan Women Reject Palin" rally marched through Anchorage carrying signs with a variety of charismatic slogans: "Hockey Mama for Obama," "Bush in a Skirt," "The Alaska Disasta," and "God's Will is not a Foreign Policy." With a population of roughly 800,000 in Alaska, pulling together 1,400+ for a politically charged rally is no small task.  As one man put it on his local Anchorage radio station, "It&

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“Neil Gaiman’s imaginary worlds are indisputably dark, often chillingly macabre, and always fun to visit. His characters are spooky but charming, like Death, the beguiling goth girl of the groundbreaking comic series The Sandman; the Other Mother, the soul-snatching matriarch of the young adult bestseller Coraline; and Aziraphale and Crowley, the angel and demon frenemies [...]

I’m looking for vector format equivalents of the Goetic seals, or any demonic names for that matter. If anyone knows where or whom I might contact to get a hold of such files, please drop me a line! Totally appreciate it! Love, Fell

Citing unsafe practices and potential toxic contamination, the Environmental Protection Agency shut down a small ghost- entrapment operation in downtown Manhattan today, and had four of the business’ spectral-containment specialists arrested in the process. According to EPA agent Walter Peck, employees of the company—located in an old fire station in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York—had [...]

Melisande? Ive never heard that name before, he said truthfully as he bit into a butter cookie. Its French, she said turning around and sitting back down. She looked passed him for a moment remembering how the name had rolled off Luxs tongue. Melisande, my little honeybee It was important to live under false pretense in those days. [...]

The new technology is, to its critics, Orwellian. Others view it as a silver bullet against terrorism that could render waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods obsolete. Some scientists predict the end of lying as we know it. Now, well before any consensus on the technology’s readiness, India has become the first country to convict someone [...]

Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That’s why the U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing “thought helmets” that would harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops. Ultimately, the Army hopes the project will “lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought [...]’