by | Oct 31, 2016 | Culture Music Art
from TIME LSD Might Make You More Creative A small study of the illegal drug has found eye- and mind-opening results Lysergic acid dyethylamide, which you probably know as LSD, has been put to various uses since its discovery in the 1930s: scientists have tried to...
by | Oct 30, 2016 | Weirdness
from The Independent Future of TV could be pills that make people hallucinate television shows, Netflix boss says It might be a blue pill that makes you hallucinate in an entertaining way – and then another white pill that brings you back to normality, Reed Hastings...
by | Oct 29, 2016 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
from Vanity Fair An Oral History of Laurel Canyon, the 60s and 70s Music Mecca They made music together, took drugs together, formed bands together, slept together. But none of the legends of the Laurel Canyon scene that flowered in L.A. in the late 60s and early...
by | Oct 28, 2016 | Mirth
from VICE How a Three-Year-Long Prank Landed Me a Job at ‘South Park’ By Sanjay Shah Not Mickey the Goat. Photo via Wikimedia Commons I had just gotten a job writing for a sitcom, so when my agent Mickey got married I felt a lot of pressure to give him a...
by | Oct 27, 2016 | Weirdness
from The Economist Brave new worlds – New discoveries, intelligent devices and irrepressible dreamers are once again making space exciting IT MAY turn out to be a bare and barren rock. The fact that liquid water could be flowing across the surface of the planet...
