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Unbecoming is the work of Alexis Turner, a PhD candidate in the History of Science at Harvard University. In addition to sharing details on his current research into the early scientific and political history of LSD in the United States, Alexis writes about inappropriate topics like science and spirituality, being trans, living in a converted ambulance camper, political judgment, and the culture wars in America.

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Rambling across the history of science, technopolitics, spirituality, the US, and gender while living in the back of an ambulance. From a Harvard PhD who should be old enough to know better.

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Alexis Turner

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Rambling and musing my way across the history of science, politics, and the US in a janky ambulance.