Hamilton Morris
Hamilton Morris is a journalist and science editor of Vice Magazine and a contributor to Harper's magazine, born on April 15, 1987[1][2] who lives in Brooklyn, New-York.[3]
Biography
Morris was born in Massachusetts, and is the son of Julia Sheehan and documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. As a teenager he acted in television commercials, most notably a 2002 iPod commercial.[4] Although much of his work focuses on science, he has been described as a psychonaut, the writer Daniel Pinchbeck called him "a mad scientist, chemical genius, alchemist on the hunt for the chemical elixir of consciousness."[5] He also has edited the "Weird science issue" of Vice magazine. He has studied science at the University of Chicago[6][7] and New School with anthropologist Nicolas Langlitz, and is currently working on a book about clandestine chemistry.[8]
Video Reports
Morris writes a series called ("Hamilton's Pharmacopeia"), where he travels around the world investigating unusual psychoactive drugs. All of his video reports have been published as print articles in Vice or Harper's Magazine. Morris has a blog, where he speaks principally about chemistry.
Projects Include:
- The Sapo Diary, about Phyllomedusa bicolor skin secretions in Amazonia
- Nzambi, Wade Davis's theory of TTX-mediated zombification Haiti
- An exploration of the clandestine laboratory once operated by William Leonard Pickard.
- An interview with Alexander Shulgin.
- Icelandic mushroom picking
- Psilocybin-containing sclerotium laboratories in The Netherlands.
- An unreleased episode about Chinese cannabinoid laboratories.
- Tanks for the Memories
- Tripping on Hallucinogenic Frogs
- The Ambien Effect
- Swaziland: Gold Mine of Marijuana