The news that Ted Kaczynski was included in the 50th anniversary alumni directory has roiled the class reunion. Better known via his nom de plume (or ...
William Bradley | Posted 05.08.2012
Don't look now, but something important just happened on Mad Men. A major character, someone with real talent in the field, just rejected advertising. Someone who happens to be ad guru Don Draper's bright and shiny new wife.
The Huffington Post | Alex Moaba | Posted 04.26.2012
"Mad Men" got psychedelic this week when Roger Sterling tripped on LSD at his wife's psychotherapist's apartment. "Mad Men" was bound to run into '...
Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 04.25.2012
He expected her to wait for him, but she's a modern woman and she can get home on her own. It's telling that she doesn't expect him to come back for her, or does she just not want to be there when he does?
William Bradley | Posted 04.24.2012
The hairpin plot twists so evident in last week's episode continue in this one, as does the sense of suddenly (seemingly?) impending doom.
Posted 04.23.2012
Sure, it's not that shocking that a few of these famous writers and actors dropped acid back in the day. But we were surprised to find out how some at...
HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 04.19.2012
WASHINGTON -- Conspiracy theorists who question President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 have, over the years, become obsessed with another m...
Posted 04.17.2012
The family of a man who died last week after being tasered by police suspects officers may have contributed to his death with a violent beating. M...
The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 03.13.2012
Talk about flashbacks. New research suggests that LSD -- a mind-altering drug known to cause recurrent hallucinations -- may find new popularity not a...
Craig K. Comstock | Posted 04.14.2012
Martin-Smith's nourishing bio lays out food for thought about how experiences one might never chose can, with luck and hard work, lead to valuable psychological or social inventions.
Cracked.com | Posted 04.03.2012
To public service announcement creators, their videos serve as a terrible portent of doom for the audience. If they do their job right, it works, ...
Posted 01.05.2012
From caffeinated spiders to glow-in-the-dark beagles, animal experiments have taken a number of unusual forms. Some have been blatantly unethical, oth...
goodmenproject.com | Posted 12.21.2011
In December of 1962 when I was eight years old, one of the few things in my life that really mattered to me, aside from the upcoming Christmas holiday...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.30.2011
Janeen Delany describes herself as an "old hippie" who has smoked plenty of marijuana. But she never really dabbled in hallucinogens -- until two year...
Amanda Feilding | Posted 01.24.2012
There is much debate as to what the best model of future drug control might look like, but the important thing is not the specific policy to be implemented, but the principles upon which they will be founded and the freedom for countries to experiment with new approaches.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 12.28.2011
Somehow the hippie movement lost its unity and credibility when it became about flower children making love and tripping out instead of what we can do together to end war and create social justice.
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 12.20.2011
Apple's first quarterly downturn in five years is being spun by analysts as a one time event linked to planned obsolescence of an iPhone and the death...
Jane Chafin | Posted 12.05.2011
If you follow the instructions on the screen of this first video, you will experience a brief and very real visual hallucination at the end.
Lewis Richmond | Posted 10.18.2011
It will be interesting to see how the next generation of Buddhist teachers and practitioners deal with the cultural history (and baggage) of the word "enlightenment."
Cynthia Ellis | Posted 10.06.2011
Directors Alex Gibney and Allison Ellwood have resurrected, cinematically, the pivotal moment when our country went from Mad Men to HAIR.
Michael Sigman | Posted 10.04.2011
There's irony in the fact that Paul Krassner sees "increasing insanity" in our current politics and culture. The 1960s activist whom the FBI once tagg...
Marshall Fine | Posted 10.04.2011
You don't have to be a Deadhead or a Ken Kesey-phile to find the fun and the wistfulness in Magic Trip, Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood's reconstruction of the famous cross-country bus trip by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.
Mark Juddery | Posted 09.19.2011
The sixties were the decade of change, the decade of cool, the decade of excitement... and the decade of hype.
R.W. Sanders | Posted 09.13.2011
Nicholas Ito reported on CNN on July 13 that radioactive beef has been found in Japan. At first, six cows were apparently butchered and sold in Tokyo....
Sam Harris | Posted 09.05.2011
One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 05.25.2012