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Soho Farmhouse
Wilderness Festival
Banning laughing gas is a serious matter. The balloon protest treats it as a joke.
The proposed ban on nitrous oxide is irrational and unworkable, and requires serious challenge, not an inane demo in Parliament Square
31 July 2015
Standon Calling
The Science of Hedonism: Wilderness, August 9 2015
The Search for a Women’s Condom Alternative That Could Prevent HIV
“The possibility of having a ring that contains a microbicide and a contraceptive, in the same device? Now that would very attractive.”
23 July 2015
Latitude
Drugs: Meds for the Soul? Latitude Festival, July 17 2015
Could ecstasy be a potential treatment for PTSD?
The first clinical trial in Canada is under way to test whether the party drug could be part of a treatment for those with PTSD
13 July 2015
MDMA for PTSD? Canada, July 13 2015
Café Scientifique
Also Festival
The Soft Moon @ Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
I don’t have a music collection titled “Music To Slit My Wrists To”, but if and when I ever start one, The Soft Moon will definitely feature prominently.
19 June 2015
Let’s Get It On: The race for the world’s best condom
It’s hugely unpopular, worn by an estimated 5% of men around the world: can 11 design mavericks, funded by Bill and Melinda Gates, reinvent the condom for a sexier, safer world?
13 June 2015
Let’s Get It On: Guardian Cover Story, June 13 2015
A History of the Ice Pick Lobotomy
It was decreed “the worst idea on the mind” in history in a public debate at the Royal Institution in 2006. Yet it seemed like such a good idea at the time—so good, it won its devisor the Nobel Prize.
12 June 2015
Psychedelic Society
CBC Radio: Toronto, May 16 2015
Pages Unbound
Edinburgh Science Festival
Huff Post Live: NYC, May 6 2015
40 Winks Hotel
Pages Unbound: Toronto, May 8 2015
Your Baby Knows Music Better Than Most Adults
Each and every one of us is born with perfect pitch
24 April 2015
Animals Like to Get High in the Wild, Too
Humans aren’t the only ones who turn to drugs for a little bit of escape. In my new book on the science of hedonism, the quest by animals to get high is documented.
20 April 2015
On The Anniversary of the First Acid Trip, What Do We Now Know About LSD?
But one high is so famous it has a birthday: Bicycle Day, April 19, 1943. The world’s first acid trip.
19 April 2015
f5 Fest
Squarepusher @ The Barbican
The last time I saw Tom Jenkinson, a.k.a techno-jazz originator Squarepusher, it was at The Glade at Glastonbury 2004. At the time, one of the most highly-regarded platforms for electronic music worldwide, at one of the most influential festivals on earth.
And it was awful.
15 April 2015