Access

Autumn Books

Nature 455, 870 (16 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/455870a; Published online 15 October 2008

Open Innovation Challenges

  • Single-cell Analysis Platform

    • Deadline: Dec 02 2009
    • Reward: $5,000 USD

    This Challenge is looking for novel approaches to analyzing changes at a single-cell level. This is...

  • Optimizing Sub-cellular Localization Tags

    • Deadline: Jan 31 2010
    • Reward: $20,000 USD

    The Seeker is looking for methods to optimize sub-cellular localization tags for protein expression....

naturejobs

Drug-fuelled counterculture

Arran Frood1

BOOK REVIEWEDAlbion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain

by Andy Roberts

Marshall Cavendish: 2008. 288 pp. £18.99

LSD — lysergic acid diethylamide — is an evocative acronym: it strikes a rational fear into governments and an irrational one into the media. Those who have taken the drug are in awe of its transformative power; to those who have not, it is a dangerous unknown.