Benjamin Breen

When the Sackler Brothers studied LSD One of the stranger episodes from the 1950s golden age of psychedelic therapy, and what it tells us about the history of technology

Latest on @resobscura.bsky.social ‘s always interesting blog
resobscura.substack.com/p/when-the-s...

Thank you!

Internal memo from the pharmaceutical manufacturer Upjohn & Company (1962), brainstorming ideas about how to improve company relationship with the FDA

Among my favorite ideas:

-"understand the law"
- "spy"
- "tell the truth"
- "extorition and blackmail"
- "smile more"

#histsci #histech #histstm

Ok folks, I just started a #PublicHistory starter pack that I am certain missed a lot of people. So, share widely and share your recommended adds. TIA.

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Following on from my first #starterpack on Historians in Britain, I've now started another, which is a collection of STEM writers/journalists and medical/science historians! Please give me a shout if I've missed you, or you would like to be added to this list: go.bsky.app/3DuVT6Z

Hi Lindsey! This is great, I am thrilled to see history of science and medicine people migrating here - would love to be added to the list :)

Chatter: Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and the CIA with Benjamin Breen Discussing the history of CIA experiments with drugs.

On this week's Chatter, @shaneharris.bsky.social spoke to @resobscura.bsky.social about his new book, Tripping on Utopia, on how Margaret Mead launched a movement to expand human consciousness, a story that includes the WWII-era OSS, a shady cast of CIA agents, & the pioneers of the Information Age.

Mindscape 267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Be... Historian Breen (Age of Intoxication) blends fleet-footed biography with an accessible analysis of mid-20th-century research int...

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Kikkuli! Why do some people from the distant past become memes?

Just a note to say that a new Res Obscura post about everyone's favorite Hurrian horse trainer will be published tomorrow morning on Substack. This one is inspired by teaching UCSC's world history survey this fall. open.substack.com/pub/resobscu...

Such a fun and useful resource: text search in maps from the David Rumsey collection. Here are the results for "incognita" and "ruins": www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...