* Reich was by any standards a very strange figure. Born in the Habsburg province of Galicia, he studied under Sigmund Freud and eventually ended up in New York, where he argued that sexual urges should be indulged, not repressed, and that orgasms were the key to mental health. He later insisted that he could channel a cosmic life force called ‘orgone energy’ (not unlike the Force in Star Wars) with an ‘orgone accumulator’, which he could then fire at the clouds to create rain. Convinced that this was ‘a fraud of the first magnitude’, the Food and Drug Administration ordered Reich to stop selling the orgone accumulator. When he refused, he was imprisoned in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1957. It seems likely that he was mentally ill.