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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
| Charlie WilliamsSarah MarksDaniel Pick
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle
| Dr Camilla RøstvikJo Hanley
Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
| Ken Hollings
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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Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition
| Sharrona PearlSteven Pocock
Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.