biology
This is a chapter taken from the forthcoming book "The Devils' Glossary" available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in February 2025. All facts are triple-checked and available in the footnotes of the book. The sordid history of research around the understudied area of human sexual behaviour
chemistry
Mother Nature's pantry is bursting with electrochemical wonder. Thousands of psychedelic plants have been catalogued by chemists and botanists. As miniature laboratories, they produce molecules of such staggering complexity, its often hard to believe your eyes. It can be hard to find a reference source or encyclopaedia index
biology
"I lived for years in a sexually liberated lesbian commune", writes the brilliant Mary Harrington. After six decades of observed evidence, it's impossible to escape the allegation the Swinging Sixties weren't progress at all, and the "liberation" they championed was a degeneration