4 ’68 Radicals

from The LA Times Four radical and radically original pieces of music that blew up the modernist status quo in 1968 By MARK SWED On a cold Berkeley morning early in December 1968, I cut class and joined a queue on Telegraph Avenue, waiting for Discount Records to...

Miloš Forman Gone

from The LA Times Miloš Forman, Oscar-winning Czech director of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ dies at 86 By GINA PICCALO Miloš Forman came of age as a filmmaker under the watchful eyes of the Soviets in postwar Czechoslovakia. And though he...

All Hail HAL!

from The New York Times What ‘2001’ Got Right By Michael Benson FRANKFURT, Germany — It’s a testament to the lasting influence of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which turns 50 this week, that the disc-shaped card commemorating the...

Geeks On Acid

from The Miami Herald LSD is ‘harmonizing’ for the brain — and can change your personality for years, studies find BY JOSH MAGNESS Two recently released studies show how LSD can affect the brain. Wikimedia Commons Your brain on LSD is kind of like jazz...

Dark Age Sex

from AEON The salacious Middle Ages Medieval people feared death by celibacy as much as venereal disease, and practiced complex sexual health regimens by Katherine Harvey In the popular imagination, the history of sex is a straightforward one. For centuries, the...