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The castration effect
| Gavin FrancisBenjamin Gilbert
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
| Cassidy Phillips
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
| Jude Seal
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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You know the drill
| Richard Barnett
Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.