Richard Godwin

It took 400,000 Nasa employees and contractors to put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969 – but only one man to spread the idea that it was all a hoax. I looked into the history of the moon hoax, which one in six British people believe in to this day.

Penny Slinger was a pioneering feminist artist of the late 1960s counter-culture whose surrealism collapsed the distinction between creator and muse, seer and seen. She transgressed every taboo going - before abandoning the art world for decades. Finally on the cusp of wider recognition, she gave her first newspaper interview since 1971.

Why is astrology so resurgent among Millennials? I looked up into the heavens and deep into my Cancerian soul, and found some surprising answers

For some reason Rolls Royce decided to lend me a £300,000 Phantom for the weekend. It was a decision they would regret

Written in a motel in Monterey, California, within a couple of hours of learning of my hero's death

How a hallucinogenic Amazonian brew became the It-drug of the tech elite

On Tuca and Bertie and politics and fantasy

"To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves"... I investigated the rural culture wars over the right to shoot crows. (Clue: It's actually pheasants we should be worried about)

On the future of psychedelic medicine - and why hallucinogens are wasted on the young

A 76 year-old triathlete, a 105 year-old sprinter, a 106 year-old marathon runner... I sought life wisdom from some of the world's most advanced athletes

I went for a walk around Hollywood Forever Cemetery with rapper Azealia Banks, who burst into tears and promised to stop being so crazy

What the queen of light entertainment can teach us about identity... and tax evasion

I interviewed late-00's pop star Kate Nash about mental health, bankruptcy and the music industry - and how she stayed sane

I wrote about the evolutionary arms race between advertisers and Gen Z.