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One of the more persistent myths about the fly-agaric mushroom , Amanita muscaria , the familiar red and white-spotted mushrooms of fairy-ta... -
Over the Christmas period I made one of the hardest decisions I've had to face and I chose to leave both my treasured bands, Wod and Tel... -
Just lately I've been listening online to what's been emerging from Newcastle University's Folk Music degree course . Here's...
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Fifteen years ago, like many people in Oxford and indeed up and down the country, I took part in the Newbury Bypass anti-roads campaign. I w... -
At last I'm able to give you a bit more information about my new musical project, Wod , about which I've been a bit hesitant to say ... -
I find it hard to believe but it's exactly ten years since my book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was published. Thou... -
There are a lot of myths about science, not least that it proceeds in an orderly manner, cool, detached and unemotional. In the 1960s, philo...
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Shroom: ten years on
I find it hard to believe but it's exactly ten years since my book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was published. Thou...
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This programme, Spirit of the Beehive by Nina Perry who made the excellent radio documentary about Oxford's Catweazle Club, looks like ...
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In 1993, when I was still a whippersnapper in my twenties, I managed to get myself invited to the Secret McKenna Workshop , organised by the... -
Not long after the August Bank Holiday, when the last lingering sunshine slinks away and the chilly morning air smells of back to school, my... -
In case you’re not a regular subscriber to Economic Botany , and to my shame I’m not, you mightn’t have read the following recently publishe... -
One of my favourite textbooks, that I refer to again and again, is New Religions: A Guide edited by Christopher Partridge. Apart from an, a... -
One of the more persistent myths about the fly-agaric mushroom , Amanita muscaria , the familiar red and white-spotted mushrooms of fairy-ta...
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I'm delighted to have been asked to write a seasonal column for the ever more wonderful Spiral Earth , increasingly the hub for all thin...