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Still Human
It’s frustratingly easy to trick yourself into thinking you’re simply going to bounce back with 100 per cent health once your cancer treatment is over.
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Humans of healthcare
Just everyday heroes.
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Stuff Humans Don't Like
What is it that you don't like?
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Humans are social animals
And yet we still can't agree...
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To Err is Human
You can't be perfect and also be human.
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Humans, animals and the sensory world
Artists and medics through the ages have made links between our discerning human senses and similar traits in animals. Discover how close we are to the earth’s other inhabitants.
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Why the scariest monsters look almost human
Something is wrong, but you’re not sure what. Amy Jones explores exactly why your worst nightmare is the monster that’s almost human.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
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.
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Drugs, space travel and the ‘age of promise’
Space-age wonder drug Terramycin promised utopia, but might instead have triggered one of the biggest threats to our future.
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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
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The island of tranquillity
What would your island of tranquillity look like?
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Mindfulness
Does journalling help you feel more calm?
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Nature
Is nature always a place to relax and unwind?
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Where do you find tranquillity?
How do you like to relax?
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Being human
Drop the list and just exist.
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Stuff humans like
Humans like a lot of things, but they're not always the same.
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What distinguishes the human?
Are we human, or are we just potatoes with feelings?
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
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Your journey from cell to human
Find out how you became you with these ten highlights from ‘The Making of You’ by embryologist Katharina Vestre.
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Exposing the secrets of the human body
Scientists, artists, and philosophers have long studied our anatomy to try to discover what it means to be human.
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Forensic sculpture and the uncannily human clay heads
"There is a point when there are suddenly twice as many people in the class."
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Staying present
Sometimes it can be hard to stay in the moment...
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Emotions
How would you describe your emotions?
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The happiness cycle
Can you buy happiness?