Stories
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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The castration effect
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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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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Secrets of the sequence. Pt. 102.
Date: 2002- Pictures
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A lion attacking a stag; sheep and cow in the background. Engraving.
Reference: 577140i- Pictures
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A lion attacking a wild boar. Engraving by F. Rosaspina after Titian (?), ca. 1800.
Titian, approximately 1488-1576.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 577160i- Pictures
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A giant coluber snake swallowing a panther. Etching after Howitt, 1 April 1812.
Howitt.Date: 1 April 1812Reference: 577118i- Pictures
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A red snake and a maroon snake entwined and glaring at each other. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: March 67 [March 1967]Reference: 2901313iPart of: Adamson Collection