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MISSION STATEMENT  

This is a platform of happiness where anyone who is tripping is welcome.

Tell us about the highs you’ve been on - mental, physical, spiritual.

Define your experiences in a safe, positive, free-form environment. 

We are not here to promote, condone or condemn.

 We pass no judgment. 

We are merely purveyors of joy.

Mating: Nature’s Most Dangerous Sport

Valentine’s Day, that annual pageant of performative affection, where lovers eager to woo their partners with traditional gifts of red...

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Feb 712 min read

Crazy Tidbits our History Books Left Out

History, for all its posturing as the noble record of humanity's triumphs and tragedies, has always had a peculiar knack for being...

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Jan 3117 min read

Geography: Strange Places and Weird Spaces

The Earth is a fascinating and infuriating enigma, a patchwork of peculiarities stitched together with a combination of cartographic...

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Jan 2414 min read

The Postal Service

Remember postage stamps? Those little squares of adhesive currency that once felt like the pinnacle of sophistication when you peeled one...

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Jan 1710 min read

The Dinner Party

The dinner party: a social institution where the promise of companionship often gives way to the grim reality of under seasoned...

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Jan 109 min read

April Fool’s Day in a Sparkly Dress

Imagine this: It’s New Year’s Eve. You’re crammed into a room, clutching a flute of champagne that tastes like optimism watered down with...

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Dec 27, 20249 min read

Bizarre Victorian Christmas Cards

The Christmas card, that flimsy token of obligatory cheer we now dutifully shuffle through each December, was born not as a wholesome...

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Dec 20, 20248 min read

Some of the Worst Christmas Toys Ever

It’s Christmas time again. The season of gauzy nostalgia and rampant capitalism wrapped up in a shiny bow. As children, it wasn’t about...

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Dec 13, 202411 min read

What Were They Thinking?

Late Tuesday evening, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol took a page from the "How Not to Lead" playbook, scribbling his name on a...

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Dec 6, 202412 min read

From Flying Spaghetti to Holy Ducks: The Lighter Side of Faith

Religion, at its core, is humanity’s attempt to make sense of the senseless, to satisfy our longing for meaning. It sings to the heavens,...

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Nov 29, 202410 min read

Mispronounced Places Worth a Visit

Language is a treacherous game. It promises communication but delivers confusion the moment you step beyond the borders of your mother...

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Nov 22, 202410 min read

Money: What is It?

Once upon a time - around 600 BC in Lydia, where today you’d find Turkey - someone struck a chunk of electrum, a natural alloy of gold...

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Nov 15, 202411 min read

Lessons Not Learned From History

There’s a funny thing about history. It seems almost like a ghost, doesn’t it? Always lingering in the background, rattling its chains to...

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Nov 8, 202414 min read

Words Under Siege: A look at Bizarre Literary Censorship

Books, like all great cultural artifacts, have the curious power to simultaneously illuminate the human condition and spark endless...

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Nov 1, 202413 min read

Is This Really Necessary?

In a world teetering on the edge of chaos, it's comforting to know that some governments have taken a stand - against prolonged hugs. New...

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Oct 25, 20247 min read

All Chips Are Not Created Equal

There’s something oddly ceremonial about the act of opening a bag of potato chips. A rip, a puff of air, and suddenly you’re holding a...

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Oct 18, 20248 min read

Car Innovations That – Thankfully – Failed

Cars today are indeed marvels of technology, stuffed to the gills with gadgets and gizmos that would have made James Bond green with...

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Oct 12, 202411 min read

War, what is it good for?

War. Noun : a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state. Verb : to...

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Oct 4, 202414 min read

It Was Good to Be a Kid

It’s funny, isn’t it? When we’re kids, all we want is to be adults. We can’t wait to shed the shackles of recess and homework, thinking...

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Sep 27, 202414 min read

Hell

One of our regular readers (we do very much appreciate all of them!) recently sent us a note that they’d been having discussions with...

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Sep 20, 202418 min read