The breadth and erudition of her case studies is as impressive as it is entertaining. Her examples range from the prosaic, such as the continued influence of drugs on the music industry, to more interesting cases of acid-tripping geneticists seeing new ways of mapping genomes, psychiatrists getting high to understand their patients better, and Easter Islanders' natural rhythm providing a new theory for just how they moved those stones. Written with great warmth and humour, Cormier's key insight is that it is often because of joyous excess, rather than in spite of it, that discoveries are made.
Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll is a raucous ode to base pursuits by Zoe Cormier, who is one of the co-founders of the events and installation organiser Guerilla Science. Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll: The Science of Hedonism
