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Is shoegaze the loneliest genre of music?

Christine Ro explores the connection between shyness and shoegaze.

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Leaving Mexico and finding refuge in hope

In Mexico, violence of all kinds – organised, street, domestic – is accepted as normal. From the UK, Laura Morales speaks out and fights to help those suffering back home.

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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs

In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.

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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

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  • Boyle's second air-pump
  • The air-pump of Otto von Guericke.
  • Pneumatics: two kinds of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • B. Martin, "Portable air-pump...": rabbit & fish in receivers
  • Pneumatics: a large kind of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • Surgical instruments and apparatus, including an air pump vapour bath. Engraving by Campbell.
  • Pneumatics: three kinds of air pump, including (lower right) Cuthbertson's design. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1796.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • Example of the first type of Boyle's air-pump, made on the continent. Marked with a French lily and a little vase. Perhaps made in France. In the Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natur weten schappen at Leyden.
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