A Plant A Day

Last week I wrote about the Amazon flooding its atmosphere with sesquiterpenes: a chemical SOS from the canopy as the […]

In 2025, a paper in Cognitive Science showed that the “sensitive plant” Mimosa pudica can track the number of light–dark

This post series on botanical ingredient adulteration is inspired by the excellent work coming out of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP)

Pause for a second and really feel into this: we may be walking through a planet full of conscious beings

In our upcoming Explorer’s Way episode, Dennis McKenna and I dive into one of the strangest universal reports in psychedelic

Before we had anti‑doping rules, banning enhancement wasn’t some abstract ethical decision: it was a response to athletes literally dying.

Six new tree species in the genus Matisia from Panama and Colombia were recently named: Matisia petaquillae, M. changuinolana, M.

This post series on botanical ingredient adulteration is inspired by the excellent work coming out of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP)

Here Oliver Catlin of BSCG Certified pulls back the curtain on one of the most unsettling corners of the peptide

In this clip, Beto Borges of Forest Trends Association jokes that anyone following my work “must be good people” simply