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Chillies and the trouble with Scoville
| Danny Birchall
Measuring the heat of these peppers can leave you a little lukewarm.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
| Cheryl Porter
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
| Sita Reddy
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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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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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
| Nelly Ekström
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.