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Acid and the sexual psychonauts

How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.

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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science

The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.

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Conserving Audrey

Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.

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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry

Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.

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  • Amino acids - charged residues, mol. models
  • Amino acids - charged residues, mol. models
  • Amino acids - neutral residues, mol. models
  • Amino acids - non-polar residues. Molecular
  • Amino acids - non-polar residues,mol. models
  • Stomach and duodenum after poisoning by a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids
  • Cases of the diabetes mellitus; with the results of the trials of certain acids, and other substances, in the cure of the lues venerea / [John Rollo].
  • Cases of the diabetes mellitus; with the results of the trials of certain acids, and other substances, in the cure of the lues venerea / [John Rollo].
  • A scholar in a surgeon's workroom with a jar of spirits containing Saint Michael defeating a dragon with a barbued tonge; representing the scholar's knowledge of chemistry enabling surgeons to heal, by setting the beneficent force of alkalis against the noxious force of acids. Etching by P.P. Bouche, ca. 1686.
  • A collection of tracts, chirurgical and medical, viz. I. A new light of chirurgery; or a discovery of a more safe, and speedy way of curing wounds ... II. The new light of chirurgery vindicated ... III. A physico-medical essay concerning alkaly and acid ... IV. Further considerations concerning alkaly and acid ... V. A treatise of the gout ... VI. The doctrine of acids in the cure of diseases further asserted ... VII. A relation of a ... cure of a person bitten by a viper ... / Corrected and enlarged.
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