Mike Jay – Free Radicals – How A Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science

Podcast: BooksPodcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Mike Jay – Free Radicals – How A Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic SciencePub date: 2025-07-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationI mean, you’ve got’a laugh, aintcha! Nitrous Oxide made “a picaresque journey from laboratory to lecture hall, variety palace to dentist’s chair.” A substance that does not exist in nature, it fairly blew the minds of the radical scientific community in the late 18th Century when it was isolated and synthesised. Some of them couldn’t decide whether it was more remarkable medicinally or recreationally. What they did know was that it was a wonderful product of a modern scientific sensibility. It is a story that takes in Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Humphrey Davy, Peter Mark Roget (yes, that Roget), James Watt, and at its centre, … Continue reading →The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Green-Shoot, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.