Homin’ in on Serotonin
(Note: It’s always interesting to me to find out what thinking was around new discoveries and where the train of thought ultimately led to. The...
Author: pjg
A Lode of Growed Toad
The cane toad, Bufo marinus, is a very successful species which has invaded the Australian environment since its deliberate introduction in 1935. The cane toad...
Project MK-Ultra
While researching old newspapers in relation to the early use of LSD on psychiatric patients in the 1960s, I stumbled across the weird 1950s CIA...
Imposing and Opposing 6 o’clock Closing
In 1965, at age 13, I sold evening newspapers standing outside a pub on a busy intersection in Carnegie from about 4.30pm to 6pm. Blokes...
A Lean Glean of Lysergic Acid Diethylamine
While working as a psychiatric nurse on night duty at a large mental hospital in the late 1970s, I found an old, large, leather bound...
Leucotomy
Leucotomy (or lobotomy) is an obsolete treatment for schizophrenia – the surgical ‘interruption’ of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain – usually...
Kathleen Hilda
My great grandfather Alexander Migan sailed on the barque, Kathleen Hilda. The following is an excerpt from his memoir of his sailing days, about the...
Bottle-O
SAD DAYS FOR THE BOTTLE-O Wants Suburbia Back on Beer Yes, we have no beer bottles; we have pickle bottles and vinegar bottles, but yes,...
Plight of the Night Cart Shite
THE TRAIL OF THE NIGHTCART Yesterday morning Arthur Lewis appeared before the bench in answer to a summons charging him with so filling a night-cart...
Mugs and Thugs Shrug and Plug Bugs
Rabbits European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were introduced to Australia in the 18th century with the First Fleet and eventually became widespread. In mid 1860s there was...