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- Article
- Article
Synaesthesia, or when senses overlap
| Lydia Ruffles
What’s it like to see heartbeats, taste Tube stations or hear paintings?
- Article
- Article
The colonist who faced the blue terror
| Anna Faherty
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
- Book extract
- Book extract
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.
- Book extract
- Book extract
The meaning of happiness
| Tiffany Watt SmithEleanor Shakespeare
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
- Interview
- Interview
Refugee health on a pound a day
| Vanesha Kirita SinghBenjamin Gilbert
Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.