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More than a bunch of stoners, the midcentury exponents of drug experimentation and LSD were respected scientists who wanted a better world.

In “Tripping on Utopia,” Benjamin Breen chronicles the legendary anthropologist’s doomed effort to save the world through hallucinogens.

Cary Grant and Congresswoman Clare Buth Luce, were experimenting with psychedelics years before Timothy Leary made LSD popular with hippies, Benjamin Breen writes in "Tripping on Utopia."

Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?

Researchers are exploring the effects and safety of psilocybin in tiny doses.

Willow Smith cut a low-key casual figure as she was spotted dining at popular Asian fusion restaurant Luna Lu by Sydney Harbour.

From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology

While much has been made about the power of these drugs to treat pernicious mental health issues, what gets lost are the people who get hurt in the process.

Comedian Shane Mauss on the democratization of mushrooms, LSD, cannabis, DMT, and ketamine

The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk