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- Article
Losing touch
| Agnese ReginaldoAisha Young
In these pandemic times, when touch has become taboo, Agnese Reginaldo explores the importance of physical contact to our wellbeing.
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- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
| Nazlin BhimaniGergo Varga
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- Book extract
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
| Kate SummerscaleTim Robinson
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Book extract
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
| Aarathi Prasad
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.