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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
| Stevyn Colgan
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Is your job bad for your teeth?
| Kristin Hohenadel
Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?
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- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
| Jill BurkeSteven Pocock
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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Plant portraits
| Julia Nurse
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.