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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.
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The men who meddled with nature
| Allison C Meier
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
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Yoga gets physical
| Lalita Kaplish
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
| Rachael SwindaleSteven Pocock
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.