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- Photo story
- Photo story
‘My Hair Is Not…’
| Inés Yearwood-Sanchez
Eight Black people talk about their relationship with their hair – their hairstyle history, their experiences, and how they decided to have natural hair.
- 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.
- Article
- Article
The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
- Long read
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
| Caitjan GaintyAgnes Arnold-ForsterPaul AddaeFranklyn Rodgers
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Article
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
| Ken Hollings
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.