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009 — All Media, Now Known or Hereafter Devised

Oct 9, 2026

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7 min read

009 — All Media, Now Known or Hereafter Devised

One clause in a contract can decide who controls tomorrow’s use of today’s video

RN Collins
RN Collins

Hidden Wiring

Most of the CIA’s LSD Came from Eli Lilly

Sep 24, 2026

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12 min read

Most of the CIA’s LSD Came from Eli Lilly

A 1953 memorandum identifies the pharmaceutical supplier inside an intelligence program built to obscure its own workings.

RN Collins
RN Collins

High Culture

The Celebrity Psychedelic Memoir Is a Genre Now

Sep 24, 2026

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15 min read

The Celebrity Psychedelic Memoir Is a Genre Now

How celebrity confession turns a legally constrained psychedelic experience into marketable redemption.

RN Collins
RN Collins

High Culture

What Brain Scans Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Orgasm

Sep 24, 2026

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16 min read

What Brain Scans Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Orgasm

What laboratory neuroscience can actually say about orgasm—and what commerce asks it to say.

RN Collins
RN Collins

High Culture

A Meal on Mushrooms

Sep 24, 2026

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21 min read

A Meal on Mushrooms

What happens when a controlled substance, a tasting menu, and three regulatory systems meet at one table.

RN Collins
RN Collins

High Culture

What MDMA Does to a Marriage

Sep 24, 2026

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24 min read

What MDMA Does to a Marriage

What small couples studies, FDA rejection, and underground history do—and do not—show.

RN Collins
RN Collins

Unsettled

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Law Happens Somewhere

Sep 24, 2026

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12 min read

Law Happens Somewhere

The rooms, rules, screens, waits, and relationships through which law becomes real

RN Collins
RN Collins

Unsettled

+2

Who Made This So Hard?

Sep 24, 2026

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11 min read

Who Made This So Hard?

Before blaming the user, map the legal encounter

RN Collins
RN Collins

Unsettled

+1

Suggested but Not Proven

Sep 24, 2026

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22 min read

Suggested but Not Proven

Twenty-four clay pipe fragments from Shakespeare's garden, and what the residue analysis did and did not establish.

RN Collins
RN Collins
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