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A walk through other people’s expectations
| Caroline ButterwickSteven Pocock
The steep path isn’t the only thing Caroline Butterwick has to navigate on her Lakeland hike. Always aware of other people’s expectations, she continually monitors how her disability might seem to strangers.
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John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’
| John Walter
I’m a painter, but I make worlds.
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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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Migraine, creativity and me
| Lydia Ruffles
Novelist Lydia Ruffles explores how migraine has made her mind stretch, shrink, widen and change, and how it’s influenced her art.
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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.