Article: How the Village Feast Helped Building Civilization (+Audio)

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Article: How the Village Feast Helped Building Civilization (+Audio)

Article: How the Village Feast Helped Building Civilization (+Audio)

Village feasts did a lot to transform early sedentary farming communities from egalitarian bands to a complex, hierarchically structured society, and therefore play an important role in how our global

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Article: Humans Ate Meat 3.4 mio Years Ago

Article: Humans Ate Meat 3.4 mio Years Ago

For all our vegan friends: no offense intended! New evidence from Ethiopia shows that we humans butchered meat as early as 3.4 million years ago – longer than we humans

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Article: Humans lived in North America 10,000 years earlier than thought

Article: Humans lived in North America 10,000 years earlier than thought

Archaeological findings date the first human settlements in North America back to about 24,000 years ago. Cut marks were found on the jaw bone of a Yukon horse in a

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Article: Plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus

Article: Plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus

This article shows you what great and underestimated beings plants really are. It turns out plants communicate with each other using an internet-like network of mycelia – the thin threads

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Article: Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?

Article: Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?

Interesting insight into the racism that is still woven into our everyday language. It really makes utterly no sense to call white people who live abroad ‘expats‘ and the rest

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Article: An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest

Article: An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest

The long read I read this story three times already because I find it so fascinating. It gives you insights in the brutal history of Brazil, as well as details

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Essay: The Ecosexual Awakening

Essay: The Ecosexual Awakening

Charles Eisenstein’s contribution to the book “Ecosexuality – When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love” is definitely worth a read. He entertains some interesting ideas and views and manages to

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Article: Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence

The long read An excellent piece of scientific literature that describes how hunter-gatherers use elements of play to make their egalitarian lifestyle as easy and fun as possible. Play as

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Quote: How to Overthrow the System

“How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody

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Article: Foraging Was Healthier Than Agriculture

Article: Foraging Was Healthier Than Agriculture

That foragers were and are in way better health than ‘civilized’ people is no surprise anymore by now. If even Forbes Magazine admits it, it finally has to be common

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