Author: Zoe Cormier
Coloring Outside the Lines: Microbes Meet Modern Fashion
Merging art, biology, and engineering, new bio-based dyes promise to replace toxic chemicals with vivid, responsibly produced colors in today’s fast-paced fashion industry
18 February 2025
Thread Lightly: Biofabrication and the End of Fast Fashion
Amidst the ecological fallout from fast fashion's disposable culture, innovators are turning to microbes to create durable, eco-friendly fabrics that challenge traditional manufacturing
12 November 2024
Professor David Nutt’s new psychedelic mission
The expert on drugs is researching the potential to treat mental health disorders with psychedelics. ‘Disparate regions in the brain communicate with each other when they don’t normally do so’.
18 September 2024
The Harsh Reality of Becoming Plastic People
Ziya Tong, Ben Addelman, and Rick Smith investigate the hidden costs of microplastics
8 May 2024
Australia Legalizes Psychedelics, But Fails to Deliver Results
Final instalment in a four part series on the mosaic of laws worldwide governing access to psilocybin
7 December 2023
Psychedelics, States Rights, and Civil Liberties Collide in the U.S.
Third of a four part series on the mosaic of laws worldwide governing access to psilocybin
29 November 2023
Is Canada Really a Bastion of Legal Psychedelics?
Second of a four part series on the mosaic of laws worldwide governing access to psilocybin
25 November 2023
As the Psychedelic Legalization Debate Rages in the UK, People Suffer
First of a four part series on the mosaic of laws worldwide governing access to psilocybin
14 November 2023
February 13, 2024: Of Parasites, Bicycles & Saints: A Short History of LSD
How Psychedelic Music Can (Literally) Transform Your Mind
The unsung hero of the psychedelic experience is music: research has consistently shown that the nature of the musical experience is more important than the intensity of the drug.
6 September 2023
Stone Nest w/ Max Cooper: May 13 2023
Breaking Convention: April 20-22
EISF: The You, the V, and the W – April 11 2023
How Dr. Rosalind Watts is Bringing Integration into The Psychedelic Renaissance
Dr. Watts’ program is arguably the first devoted to long-term integration for psychedelic therapy.
23 March 2023
The Two Sides of Microdosing: Medical Marvel or Psychedelic Placebo?
Since microdosing exploded in popularity, many have been deeply skeptical, speculating about whether or not the perceived benefits are due to the placebo effect. What does the latest evidence say?
18 March 2023
Change your mind: How movement reconfigures the brain
We know that movement shifts our perspectives and makes us more creative. But how exactly? Take an in-depth look at the science (and magic) explaining the links between movement and improved cognition.
1 December 2022
Why I Hate Buddhism
We humans just aren’t built to be Buddhists
1 November 2022
Psychedelics Inc.
The brave new world of legalized psychedelics is already here–and so are the profiteers
4 April 2022
The Soil Solution
The UN says the world's soils have barely 50 harvests left. What are we going to do about it?
1 April 2022
Ancient Echoes
The amplification of music with electronic technology has allowed us to become lazy. The ancients, on the other hand, with only, stone, rock and their imaginations to use, were the true masters of amplified sound...
1 April 2022
Future Is Sound: April 5 2022
Future Is Sound
My Psychiatrist Is A DJ
London-based startup Wavepaths is creating a new kind of music technology explicitly designed for psychedelic therapy.
17 March 2022
Music As Medicine
Music and psychedelics go hand-in-hand. Could both have a healing effect?
17 March 2022
Health Canada Takes Small Step Towards Accessible Psychedelic Medicine
This month Canada took one step closer to a possible future of legal psychedelics by making psilocybin and MDMA more swiftly available for medicinal use
19 January 2022
Why We Dance
"Life is a rhythm - and I am the rhythm."
1 November 2021
Tripping the Switch
Psychedelics and Self-Determination
1 November 2021
Tripping Together
As psychedelics are integrated into mainstream medicine, experts weigh the benefits and costs of solo versus group therapy.
12 August 2021
MDMA Shows New Promise for Trauma, but the Drug Alone Is Not a Cure
The illegal substance—paired with intensive therapy and hard work—dramatically improves PTSD symptoms
12 May 2021