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

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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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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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