Author: Jason Louv

Between 2006 and 2010, at least 148 female inmates were sterilized by doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to…

Arthur mag’s Jay Babcock takes on Julian Cope, the Archlord of All Pagan Psychedelia and a Dangerous Minds patron saint. (This is a reprint of…

Physicist Stephen Hawking has suggested (in his new documentary series) that aliens almost certainly exist in the universe (by dint of the sheer numbers and…

UK scientists have successfully created an embryo from the DNA of one man and two women, combining three genetic strands into one. Finally, my science…

Excellent, excellent article on Cary Grant’s love affair with acid. This is rather heart-warming… how come we never hear THIS side of history? It was…

Arundhati Roy talks with Democracy Now about spending time with Maoist rebels in India. As somebody who’s spent time getting chased and almost killed by…

(Via Megomuseum) (Thanks, Howard Hallis!)

Tim Weiner on the dark history of the CIA, including the recent revelation of CIA suicide agents. (Via Fora.tv) (Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras,…

Alejandro Jodorowsky—well known to readers of this site as the director of El Topo, Santa Sangre, The Holy Mountain and several other film reels of…

Check out this LA Times article on the 10 years Philip K. Dick spent in Orange County, on leave from Berkeley. This is how I…