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The science of why things spread
| Adam KucharskiCamilla Greenwell
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
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On contagion
| Daisy LafargeNaki Narh
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
| Aparna Nair
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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Jim, the horse of death
| Chris Baker
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’
| John Walter
I’m a painter, but I make worlds.