After the shock of surviving the rapture wears off we investigate the medical value of hugs, why clowns are effective IVF treatments, and the new field of sleep hacking.

We then look at the dangers of apocalyptic predictions when violent cults get involved before throwing a smorgasbord of different books at the studio wall to see what sticks.

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Links

• Hugs Can Reduce Your Risk of Illness!
• Funny or Die
• Man predicting end of world next week moves thousands of miles to remote jungle volcano
• The latest from #Hawaii is increasingly unsettling.
• Rapture September High Alert See You At The Feast!
• About Sept 23rd Rapture and Future
• Hacking sleep: Meet the transhumanists making sleep obsolete
• A fresh light on the Nazis’ wartime drug addiction
• The Most Evil Secret Societies in History
• Woman leaps from car after spotting spider, leading to crash
• ‘Ginger extremist’ convicted in royal death plot so Prince Harry can be king
• IDAREU2LETME
• r/shittykickstarters/
• INGENIOUS HAT
• Woke to an Idea

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• Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion
• From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants and the Cults of the Dead
• The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China
• The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
• Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat
• September 28 2015 Prophecy: The Shift of Ascension

Music

• Brock Berrigan – Bacon egg and cheese via The Burning Ear
• Telepopmusik – Breathe (Fhin Flip) via La Musique Sismique
• RVDICAL THE KID. – Funk With Me via Pilerats
• Maceo Plex – Solar Detroit (Original Mix) (Ellum) via MixMag
• GUM – Anesthetized Lesson via LIB
• Vanilla – Swept Away via Genre Confused
• Whilk Misky – Clap Your Hands – Solomun Remix via Circle.Square.Triangle