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Take a vacation on Mars in the future? Forget it: scientists tell us there is too much radiation, even if your spacecraft is shielded. Alas, we need to learn much more before we’re ready to travel into space.

NASA has been discussing going to one of the moons of Mars and going to the planet itself from there. In New Scientist, David Shiga quotes planetary scientist Pascal Lee as saying, “I, for one, would go to Phobos or Deimos in a heartbeat, even without any hope of landing on Mars.”
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Experiments prove that thought changes quantum measurement. But does it go further? Is the universe itself conscious, as Max Planck and Albert Einstein thought? How has this idea, which was central to the early history of quantum physics, become fringe science? Why have we been catastrophically disempowered, and how can we reestablish our connection with earth and the universe?

Listen as William Henry interviews David Sereda about the bone-chilling reasons that we turned away from this reality and began, as a society, to live the lie that the universe is a vast, unconscious desert, perhaps sprinkled with intelligent life and perhaps not.

How do we recover from our disastrous journey into materialism, and regain our power as part of a living universe?
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It’s a scientific fact that wine tastes different to people who are given information about the wine before they drink it. When you read the edge news at unknowncountry, you never get what you expect!

When 163 test people tasted a red wine which a wine expert Robert Parker had given 92 points out of 100 to, the ones who were told about the positive appraisal before the tasting liked it much better than a second group, who were told that the wine had only scored 72 points and was thus average.
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They don’t just warn us about disease, they’re worried about global warming too (which can lead to disease), and they’re trying to communicate this concern to us.

18 of the world’s professional medical organizations say that the recent failure to reach a UN climate agreement will lead to a “global health catastrophe” and urge physicians to “take a lead” on the climate issue.

In BBC News, Richard Black quotes an article in the medical journal the Lancet as saying, “Effects of climate change on health will put the lives and wellbeing of billions of people at increased risk.”
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