Jack Schmidt

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Is portrait painting a political act?

After WWII, the CIA undertook experiments with psychedelic compounds like LSD, in the hope of discovering pharmacological weapons. The holy grail was a "truth serum" that might be used to extract secrets from the enemy. But the CIA wasn't the first to meddle with psychedelics in this way - in fact these experiments were first initiated in Nazi Germany.

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Veteran Irish journalist Fintan O'Toole asks why democratic systems and values that had been taken for granted are now in such peril.

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Learning how birds communicate could help us to better understand the health of our natural ecosystems.

With just two weeks to go until election day, presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have both returned to Pennsylvania - the most prized swing state of all.

LSD has had a colourful history. The psychedelic drug was celebrated in hippie counterculture, before being blamed for America's social ills, to now being used in controversial medical research and treatment.

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