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Is God A Mushroom?

John Last | Long Now | 26th February 2025

Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Marco Allegro certainly thought so. His 1970 book about the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts on early Christianity, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, "is remembered as a quintessential example of academic suicide". But in the 21C, psychedelic science has caught up with him. Jesus wasn't a mushroom, but the human sense of the divine could be (4,100 words)

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The Hardest Working Font In Manhattan

Marcin Wichary | Aresluna | 14th February 2025

Gorton, an unassuming and unfashionable monoline typeface, is everywhere. Institutions including the US military and national parks service use it; it also appears on thousands of typewriter keyboards, warning signs and elevator controls. It seems to be have been especially popular in Manhattan. This beautifully-illustrated essay explores the history of the font and celebrates its imperfections (6,500 words)

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