Stories
- Article
Chemical highs and psychedelic research
Could recreational drugs make you happy? Kate Wilkinson explores why keen clubber Simon believes taking psychedelics has helped him develop as a person.
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Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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The Martians are coming
For over a hundred years, antagonistic alien invaders have been a popular focus for the imagined end of the world. But the destructive consequences of human behaviour is far more frightening.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Chemical Phenomena: Distillation, evaporation. etc
Date: C.1760Reference: MS.MSL.49/3Part of: Cullen's Lectures on Chemistry- Archives and manuscripts
Chemical Phenomena: Combination, Mixtures and Compounds, etc
Date: C.1760Reference: MS.MSL.49/2Part of: Cullen's Lectures on Chemistry
- Books
- Online
Chemical phenomena in life / [Friedrich Czapek].
Czapek, Friedrich, 1868-1921.Date: 1911- Books
Electrokinetic phenomena and their application to biology and medicine / by Harold A. Abramson.
Abramson, Harold A. (Harold Alexander), 1899-1980.Date: 1934- Books
Surface tension and surface energy and their influence on chemical phenomena / by R. S. Willows and E. Hatschek.
Willows, Richard Smith, 1875-Date: 1919