"Exactly [76] years ago, April 19, 1943, Albert Hofmann, a chemist for Sandoz, in Basel, Switzerland, ingested a minute amount—just 250 micrograms--of a compound derived from the ergot fungus. He soon felt so disoriented that he rode his bicycle home, where he experienced all the heavenly and hellish effects of lysergic acid diethylamide."John Horgan, "Tripping … Continue reading Happy Bicycle Day
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Ergot on Rye
tl;dr: Ergot is a forgotten plague that teaches a lesson about the cost of ignorance, and perhaps, offers another one on the price of sanity and the value of a little madness. (1,620 words) "An old cautionary tale has it that there once was a kingdom in which all the grain crop one exceptional year … Continue reading Ergot on Rye
