Stories
- Article
Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies
The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Eye Hospital Clinical Society, Royal Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Semi Lunar Society, Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, and the Society of Chemical Industry.
Date: 1934-1983Reference: PP/MCI/E/73Part of: McIlwain, Henry- Archives and manuscripts
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'Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry'
Date: 1936-1950Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Chr/J.262Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Journals
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Ambix : the journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry.
Date: [1937]-- Journals
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Bulletin for the history of chemistry / Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
Date: 1988-- Books
Alchemy and early modern chemistry : papers from Ambix / editor : Allen G. Debus.
Date: 2004