Mike Jay

FREE RADICALS - Mike Jay How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science

Out in paperback in the US today

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There’s been a group on the cliffs at Gurnards Head for a while, haven’t been down there yet this year, others may have more up to date info

Astonishing, and seemed to come from nowhere - any antecedents I missed, or anything similar out there? What are the creators doing next?

Little Atoms 962 - Mike Jay's Free Radicals | Little Atoms A Podcast about Ideas and Culture

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @mikejay.bsky.social on his latest book Free Radicals. Out now from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:

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Talking FREE RADICALS and the discovery of nitrous oxide
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Speaker: Mike Jay — EGA Garden States: Regeneration 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Speaker: Mike Jay (UK) Mike Jay is an author and historian known for his extensive writing on the history of science and medicine, with a focus on the mind, consciousness...

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Behind the scenes at the Pneumatic Institution, with Tim Haigh
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Presentations — EGA Garden States: Regeneration

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EGA Garden States: Regeneration

I’ll be down under for this in Nov/Dec
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late to this but easily the best thing that's been written on the history of ketamine to date. i dream of visiting john lilly's archive at stanford...

Free Radicals! Thomas Beddoes, Humphrey Davy and the Pneumatic Institute of Bristol – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution At the very end of eighteenth century, the distinguished Oxford chemist Dr Thomas Beddoes founded a new private medical research clinic, The Pneumatic Institute, where together with his brilliant assi...

On the gas in Bath tomorrow
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This Native-Run Raptor Center Is Safeguarding Sacred Birds, Feathers, and Practices A Comanche-led conservation project takes on an increasingly urgent mission: protecting the birds revered by many tribes while preserving traditions at the heart of their culture.

The mighty Sia get due recognition in Audubon - great piece by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social
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Bristolians: launching FREE RADICALS at the Bookhaus on Wednesday
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This guest blog by @mikejay.bsky.social Mike Jay was originally published in the New Statesman, reproduced with permission

Mike Jay is a cultural historian, author, & former Transform Trustee

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His books include the recent: 'Psychonauts: drugs & the making of the modern mind'
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How Britain fell into the K-hole | Transform

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"Ketamine has no deep history or hinterland: it is a product of pharmaceutical modernity.

Its multiple identities mirror the broad spectrum of its effects...from a mild & pleasant giddiness to a white-knuckle ride into another dimension"

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Free Radicals! Thomas Beddoes, Humphrey Davy and the Pneumatic Institute of Bristol – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution At the very end of eighteenth century, the distinguished Oxford chemist Dr Thomas Beddoes founded a new private medical research clinic, The Pneumatic Institute, where together with his brilliant assistant Humphrey Davy, he administered experimental treatment of volunteers and medical patients with the psychedelic gas nitrous oxide. Seeking to cure chronic diseases, they instead discovered that the gas had remarkable effects on the mind. Davy was fascinated and although he dubbed the treatment “laughing gas”, he took it much more seriously than that. The astonishing story of this short-lived, but immensely influential, medical research institute involves a stellar cast of characters: from the socialite and political hostess Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, to the scientists James Watt and Erasmus Darwin, not to mention the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. Mike Jay is the author of a new book about Beddoes and his circle, Free Radicals (Yale University Press) and this event will be in conversation with the BRLSI’s Professor Stuart Reynolds. There will be book sales and signings with Mike after the talk. Mike Jay is an author specialising in psychedelics and the history of drugs. He has published many books on this subject. Mike’s book Free Radicals will be published in the UK by Yale University Press in June. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. You can read about his work by visiting his website https://mikejay.net/ Stuart Reynolds is Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Bath and is convenor of the BRLSI Science group.

How did laughing gas change medicine forever? @mikejay.bsky.social and Stuart Reynolds, who will be exploring the groundbreaking work of #ThomasBeddoes & #HumphreyDavy at #ThePneumaticInstitute.🎉🔬🎟️ #FreeRadicals #HistoryOfScience #BristolEvents

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YouTube video by Lewis Carroll Society of North America (LCSNA) Spr 25 (03) Magic Mushrooms in Wonderland - Mike Jay (LCSNA)

A chat with the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
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Free Radicals! Thomas Beddoes, Humphrey Davy and the Pneumatic Institute of Bristol – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution At the very end of eighteenth century, the distinguished Oxford chemist Dr Thomas Beddoes founded a new private medical research clinic, The Pneumatic Institute, where together with his brilliant assi...

Discussing FREE RADICALS at a launch event in Bath on Thursday 26th
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In his essay “The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris”, @MikeJayNet explores how consuming powerful solvents shaped the writings of Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ether-dreams

How Britain fell into the K-hole Silicon Valley’s favourite drug is also the UK’s.

Some thoughts on ketamine
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Hot off the press: out June 24 (UK), August 4 (US)

The Scientists Who Drank Their Own Medicine - Mike Jay When self-experimentation was heroic, not shameful—and what we lost when courage became career suicide

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Electric Fish and the First Battery - JSTOR Daily Allesandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, the earliest electric battery, in part because of his investigations into the torpedo, an electric ray fish.

Alessandro Volta’s ‘voltaic pile’ was modelled on electric eel anatomy

very apposite that this is getting re-issued simultaneously with @mikejay.bsky.social's book about Thomas Beddoes and the discovery of laughing gas... yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Just asking questions…searching stuff from @robertshrimsley.bsky.social in Saturday’s @financialtimes.com

Ooh haven’t heard the cuckoo round there for years!

Could equally be evidence for an egalitarian multi-ethnic pilgrimage site with a local caste of Chavín guides. Where are the ‘elite’ residences, defensive structures etc?

Interesting contrast with James’ drug experiences, which were similarly soft-pedalled by scholars for most of the 20th c but are now prominent in the accounts of Yaden and others

“On May 5th, at night, after walking for an hour amidst the scenery of the Avon, at this period rendered exquisitely beautiful by bright moonshine; my mind being in a state of agreeable feeling, I respired six quarts of newly prepared nitrous oxide....” publicdomainreview.org/essay/o...

Gold from the FH archives: guest post by my teacher & current head of HPS Cambridge, Hasok Chang. www.forbiddenhistories.com/2018/08/haso...