Bryan Saunders breathes new life into experimental art. Some 50 paintings soon to be on display alongside Damien Hirst’s were drug-fuelled creations that have won him legions of admirers.

His creative process is straight out of leftfield: “That’s lighter fluid,” he told the Guardian, which recently published a long and brilliant piece on Saunders. “I used metallic crayons to give it that lighter fluid feeling. That’s computer duster. If you don’t do it right, it can freeze and shatter your teeth. That’s crystal meth. That painting’s probably the seventh or eighth on the same piece of paper, because I kept doing it over and over again. I couldn’t stop.”

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This online comedy series will make you realise how ridiculous your life has become. However you won’t be able to work out how to change things so actually there’s not much point in watching these in the first place – except for the fact that you could laugh as I did.

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Lots of people take meth and other amphetamines, and quite a few know how to make them. But oddly enough, nobody knows exactly how amphetamines work. This gap in knowledge makes it hard to understand and treat the large and growing problem of amphetamine addiction. The scarcity and slow pace of funding for research compounds the difficulty.

Dr. Ethan Perlstein of Princeton University came up with a novel project designed to try to kill two birds with the one stone. He calls it Crowdsourcing Discovery, and he is using all the media channels he can – Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, blogging, Youtube – to take his idea to a large audience.

On his RocketHub crowdfunding page, Perlstein lays out the idea: ‘For this project, we’ll determine where both amphetamine and methamphetamine accumulate within the brain cells of lab mice treated with those drugs. That’s Step One in a gradual process of determining how these drugs actually work in a complex organism like us’. All data from the experiments will be uploaded to the data-sharing site Figshare, and the results will be published in an open-access journal, as well as posted to the project website. Donors to the project can claim rewards such as beers with the researchers in New York and invitations to brainstorming sessions. (No, you don’t get any meth.) Perlstein and his colleagues are hopeful that people will be intrigued and inspired by this unique opportunity to be a part of cutting-edge scientific research.

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