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From paper kites to kinky capers: the long history of psychedelia

  • Written by The Conversation
imageMichael Warwick/Shutterstock.com

Psychedelia: technicolor, drugs, nonsense. Invariably, the terms calls the 1960s to mind: the decade in which inhibitions dropped and the experiences produced by psychedelic drugs seeped into music, art and popular culture. The psychedelic 60s have become almost cliche as a topic of academic study and personal...

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The myth of flying peanuts: not so deadly after all

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imageNot quite true.Dan4th Nicholas, CC BY

By the time the Ryanair flight had touched down, four-year-old Fae Platten had been taken away by paramedics and a group of passengers were converging menacingly on a Zimbabwean man they accused of trying to kill her. His crime? He had ignored requests by the air stewardess to refrain from eating nuts on the...

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  1. Swimming upstream: plight of Delta smelt exposes flaws of the Endangered Species Act
  2. Why US may be ready to resolve Feta dispute to clinch trade deal with EU
  3. Scientists score one over celebrities in battle to decriminalize sex work
  4. Should you rely on first instincts when answering a multiple choice exam?
  5. When sex education emphasizes shame, it doesn't help youth who have been sexually abused
  6. Australia's new cap on emissions is a trading scheme in all but name
  7. Politics podcast: Canning byelection special
  8. If there's so little profit, why do people buy 7-Eleven franchises?
  9. In step with the times: So You Think You Can Dance and the pleasure of screen dance
  10. Goths just wanna have fun – why there's a problem with the depressed stereotype
  11. Architecture's brief love affair with psychology is overdue a revival
  12. Organic 'computers' made of DNA could process data inside our bodies
  13. Lebanon's leaders abandon pragmatism as trash fills the streets
  14. Healthy behaviours are more common than you might think
  15. The anxiety puzzle: why are women in deprived areas more likely to suffer?
  16. Let's make sure that cleaning up the world's water doesn't send our climate targets down the gurgler
  17. Ranking African universities is a futile endeavour
  18. Why South Sudanese adversaries signed a peace deal that they do not want
  19. Why culture, not race, determines tastes in music
  20. How current measures underestimate the level of poverty in South Africa
  21. Geosciences as a means to address water shortages in Africa
  22. How changes in African traditional medicine research can benefit South Africa
  23. After Heydon and Carmody, does Australia need a new test for judicial recusal?
  24. Security vs usability: that's the choice we make with passwords
  25. Explainer: why are off-label medicines prescribed?
  26. Offshore detention removes scrutiny and accountability for those who need it most
  27. Economic modelling may overplay the costs of Australia's 2030 climate target
  28. How cybercrime has changed over the past 5 years (it hasn't got any better)
  29. Elderly men have the highest suicide rate - and ageism stops us from doing something about it
  30. Give me location data, and I shall move the world
  31. Global count shows tree numbers have halved since dawn of human civilisation
  32. Silverbacks and greenbacks: the catch-22 at the heart of gorilla conservation
  33. Yes, Google has a new logo – but why?
  34. What attracts Chinese students to Aussie universities?
  35. Why we need a legal definition of artificial intelligence
  36. On our side: remembering the national and international in China's war
  37. This is a hellish time to be a journalist
  38. Three trillion trees live on Earth, but there would be twice as many without humans
  39. Why the Murdoch press wants to exterminate public broadcasters
  40. Wes Craven: the scream of our times
  41. Why the sharing economy needs a democratic revolution
  42. After Palmyra, what can the world do to protect cultural treasures?
  43. The theory of parallel universes is not just maths – it is science that can be tested
  44. Loin des Hommes, We Are All First Men: Camus’ Algerians and Oelhoffen’s Camus
  45. Is HarperCollins flogging a dead horse with latest Tolkien publication?
  46. How showing your emotions at work can make you a better leader
  47. Idris Elba too 'street' to play Bond? Why the word sparked a racism debate
  48. Snorted, injected or smoked? It can affect a drug's addictiveness
  49. Here's what you need to know about homework and how to help your child
  50. Why we should cheer World War II operatives for Israel, but not Jonathan Pollard

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