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- Article
Virtual reality and the fix of the future
| Stevyn Colgan
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
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The stranger who started an epidemic
| Anna Faherty
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
- Book extract
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
| Amanda Thomson
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
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The chymist’s trade card
| Julia Nurse
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.