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The unimprovable white cane
| Alex LeeIan Treherne
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
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Duelling doctors
| Russell Moul
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
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What the wind can bring
| Amanda Thomson
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
| Sita Reddy
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
| Alex Green
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?