'60s and early '70s to a movement embraced by the mainstream in the later part of the 20th and early 21st centuries, and to answer the questions: How did counterculture writers and thinkers--by way of literature, social and political activism, philosophy--make the shift into the mainstream ...
The counterculture movement dismissed classic gin cocktails as their grandfather's booze. And upwardly mobile "Mad Men" types embraced the James Bond cool of the vodka martini. Chances are if you grew up in the 1970s and 1980s and had your first legal drink in the 1990s, it probably wasn...
from the sandstone of the American Southwest to the granite of the Bugaboos, but is best known as the author of now classic hardman routes in the Gunks in the 1960s, and as a counterculture fixture in the New York climbing scene for the better part...
From there, magic mushrooms became inextricably tied to the hippie movement and its search for a new form of spirituality for the rest of the decade. For years, mushrooms were mostly associated with the counterculture [source: Harvard University]. But these days, magical fungi are finding ...
From there, magic mushrooms became inextricably tied to the hippie movement and its search for a new form of spirituality for the rest of the decade. For years, mushrooms were mostly associated with the counterculture [source: Harvard University]. But these days, magical fungi are finding ...
After several years of dramatic jumps, gasoline prices fell slightly in 2013 to the same absolute price as 2011. A key reason for this movement towards lower prices was an increase in domestic oil production within the United States. In October of 2013, Americaproduced more oil domesticallythan...
John Markoff, a former technology correspondent for The New York Times, wrote about the early experiments in What the Dormouse Said, his book on the relationship between the 1960s counterculture and the PC industry. He is a sceptic, believing that LSD was not a "magic pill" that made the...
Cybernetics is “deeply inter-twingled” (to borrow Nelson’s magical phrase) with the early development of personal computers, the 1960’s counterculture, and the rise of the design methods movement, which has enjoyed a recent rebranding as “design thinking.” ...
Both The Stooges and MC5 came out of Michigan, but it was the Big Apple where punk rock found its home.CBGBquickly became the movement's living room. The late CBGB owner Hilly Kristal initially envisioned the East Village venue as a country, bluegrass and blues spot when heopened its doors...
John Markoff, a former technology correspondent for The New York Times, wrote about the early experiments inWhat the Dormouse Said, his book on the relationship between the 1960s counterculture and the PC industry. He is a sceptic, believing that LSD was not a “magic pill” that made the...