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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
| Ross MacFarlane
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
| Douglas SmallBenjamin Gilbert
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
| Joanna Wolfarth
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.