Rich Haridy

Rich has written for a number of online and print publications over the last decade while also acting as film critic for several radio broadcasters and podcasts. His interests focus on psychedelic science, new media, and science oddities. Rich completed his Masters degree in the Arts back in 2013 before joining New Atlas in 2016. Since joining the team Rich’s interests have considerably broadened to include examining the era-defining effects of new technology on culture and life in the 21st century.

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Psychedelics

Meet two researchers bringing VR to psychedelic therapy

A pair of unassuming psychedelic researchers have proposed a radical paradigm shift to the way psychotherapy is conducted, presenting a unique protocol for incorporating virtual reality into the still-experimental model of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
Psychedelics

The ideological war at the heart of the psychedelic renaissance

Most psychedelic advocates picture a future where the drug war is over and people are free to use a number of currently illicit substances but exactly how we get to that utopian future is the source of great acrimony in a previously unified community.
Infectious Diseases

As Omicron mutates wildly the virus shows first signs of convergent evolution

Researchers tracking emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants have started noticing something strange. Different subvariants seem to be accumulating the same mutations in a sign of convergent evolution but what does this mean for the future of the pandemic?