The Acid Tests were a series of parties held by author Ken Kesey primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid-1960s, centered on the use of and...
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to achieve expansion of their consciousness. The book chronicles the Acid Tests (parties with LSD-laced Kool-Aid) and encounters with notable figures...
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Look up acid test or acid tests in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Acid test is a qualitative chemical or metallurgical assay which uses acid, or figuratively...
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An acid test is a qualitative chemical or metallurgical assay utilizing acid. Historically, it often involved the use of a robust acid to distinguish...
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A nucleic acid test (NAT) is a technique used to detect a particular nucleic acid sequence and thus usually to detect and identify a particular species...
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Polymerase chain reaction (redirect from Nucleic Acid Amplification)
(for example, in forensic science and parentage testing); and detection of pathogens in nucleic acid tests for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. PCR...
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Quick ratio (redirect from Acid Test Ratio)
In finance, the quick ratio, also known as the acid-test ratio, is a liquidity ratio that measures the ability of a company to use near-cash assets (or...
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describe the background music for acid trips in underground parties in the 1960s (e.g. the Merry Pranksters' "Acid Tests") and as a catchall term for the...
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Journalism book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, some of the parties were promoted to the public as Acid Tests, and integrated the consumption of LSD...
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Merry Pranksters (redirect from Sound City Acid Test)
chronicled their early escapades in his 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, including a bit on the same epic 1964 cross-country trip on Furthur -...
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Ken Babbs (section Acid Tests)
book Last Go Round. Babbs is best known for his participation in the Acid Tests and on the bus Furthur. Ken Babbs was born January 14, 1936, and raised...
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Acid3 (redirect from Acid 3 Test)
nature: "http://www.hixie.ch/tests/evil/acid/003/NOT_READY_PLEASE_DO_NOT_USE.html" Despite the notice in the URL, the test received widespread attention...
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Acid2 (redirect from Acid 2 test)
to function. The Acid2 tests rendering flaws in web browsers and other applications that render HTML. Named after the acid test for gold, it was developed...
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LSD (redirect from Lysergic Acid Diethylamide)
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German Lysergsäure-diethylamid), is a potent psychedelic drug that intensifies thoughts, emotions...
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Diagnosis of HIV/AIDS (redirect from HIV tests)
single test. Combination tests can detect HIV as early as 2–6 weeks after infection, and are recommended in laboratory testing. Nucleic-acid-based tests amplify...
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other nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs). Antigen tests may be one way to scale up testing to much greater levels. Isothermal nucleic acid amplification...
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of psychotropic drugs, especially LSD, also known as "acid." By holding what he called "Acid Tests", and touring the country with his band of Merry Pranksters...
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History of LSD (redirect from History of lysergic acid diethylamide)
The psychedelic drug (or entheogen) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized on November 16, 1938, by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in...
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Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily...
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Grateful Dead (category Acid rock music groups)
1965, at one of Ken Kesey's Acid Tests. Scholar Michael Kaler has written that the Dead's participation in the Acid Tests was crucial both to the development...
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bus featured prominently in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test but, due to the chaos of the trip and editing difficulties, footage of...
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detecting antigens, rather than antibodies (antibody tests) or nucleic acid (nucleic acid tests). Rapid tests generally give a result in 5 to 30 minutes, require...
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Owsley Stanley (redirect from Owsley's Acid)
A Biography of Jerry Garcia (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1994). Acid Tests pp. 70–1, 76, 85; LSD Millionaire p. 99. Pareles, Jon (August 10, 1995)...
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Pranksters) helped thousands of people take uncontrolled trips at Kesey's Acid Tests and in the new psychedelic dance halls. In Britain, Michael Hollingshead...
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Acid1 (redirect from Box Acid Test)
specification. As with acid tests for gold which produce a quick and obvious assessment of the quality of a piece of metal, the web acid tests were designed to...
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"acid tests" where they would fill a large container with a diluted low dose form of the drug and give out diplomas to those who passed their test. Along...
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at a series of "Acid Tests"; musical and multi-media events where participants were given "acid", the street name for LSD. The tests were held at various...
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Cepheid (company) (section Tests)
Its systems automate traditional nucleic acid tests (tests for specific sequences of DNA or RNA). The tests can be used to identify and analyze pathogens...
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a loose group that developed around novelist Ken Kesey, sponsored the Acid Tests, a series of events based around the taking of LSD (supplied by Stanley)...
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Viral load monitoring for HIV (category Medical tests)
Various viral load tests might be used. One way to classify tests is by whether it is a nucleic acid test or non-nucleic acid test. Variation in cost...
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