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How to cure the eco-anxious
| Christine Ro
Could community activism be the key to overcoming a fear of environmental collapse?
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Shakespeare and the four humours
| Nelly Ekström
Blood. Phlegm. Black bile. Yellow bile. The theory of the four humours informed many of Shakespeare's best-known characters, including the phlegmatic Falstaff.
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The pain that punished feminists
| Jaipreet VirdiAnne Howeson
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
| Kristen den Hartog
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
| Charlie WilliamsSarah MarksDaniel Pick
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.