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Targeted adverts

Black Mirror writers WISH they came up with this concept.

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The girl with no name

When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.

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Cinematic universe

Streaming services have been real quiet since this comic went live.

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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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  • Example of Arabic text
  • Martyrdom of Saint Regina. Woodcut.
  • Wellcome museum, view of Leukaemia section etc...
  • Breve e sustantiale trattato intorno alle figure anathomiche delli più principali animali terestri, aquatili, et volatili / [Jean Germain].
  • X-ray of tilted pelvis of a dog.
  • Anatomical fugitive sheets
  • Schucha, Caucasus: a funeral procession of men holding swords. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • Four school children sitting in class with the words 'A','I','D','S' spelt out in the shape of a clock; an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December 1993 by the UNESCO Programme of Education for the Prevention of AIDS. Colour lithograph D. Roger and A. Jonquieres.
  • A child holds a large bunch of holly and two others watch as a young woman stands on a chair to reach the picture she is decorating for Christmas. Colour process print.
  • Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.
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