Cabinet of Marginalia
The margin is where the medieval scribe drew dragons and pulled faces while the main text held forth on theology. This is that margin. Cartoons, glossed quotations, curiosities from the literature, sketches from cottage and farm, fragments from the bookshelf, and the occasional act of irreverence aimed at the
Which Ayahuasca?
Ayahuasca is not one thing: one name, many brews, hidden variables, and a global habit of flattening complexity into a single word.
The Trouble with Supernormal Stimuli.
Wide vintage-style ARDMT Field Notes comic strip titled “The Trouble with Supernormal Stimuli,” showing male Australian jewel beetles mistaking glossy brown beer bottles for females, illustrating how exaggerated artificial cues can override natural mating signals and create an evolutionary trap.
The Case of the Vanishing Molecule
Wide vintage-style ARDMT Field Notes comic strip titled “The Case of the Vanishing Molecule,” showing the scientific history of endogenous DMT from Julius Axelrod’s 1961 INMT enzyme discovery through inconsistent transmethylation-era findings, Borjigin’s rat brain studies, and modern
The Compound That Forgot to be Interesting.
The Compound That Forgot to Be Interesting — a field note on timing, context, and rejected purchase orders. In 1931 the Canadian chemist Richard H. F. Manske first synthesised N,N-dimethyltryptamine and entered it into a table of tryptamine derivatives without ever suspecting what it would become.
The Committee on Extraordinary Claims. Part 1
The margin is where the medieval scribe drew dragons and pulled faces while the main text held forth on theology. This is that margin.