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Acid and the sexual psychonauts
| Alex DymockBen MechenLeah Moyle
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
| Stevyn Colgan
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
| Nataly Allasi CanalesCat O’Neil
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
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Getting the measure of pain
| Jaipreet VirdiAnne Howeson
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.