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Navigating in a connected world

Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.

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How nature is defending itself in court

The idea that nature has legal rights is increasingly being taken seriously, but who gets to speak for it? Isabella Kaminski asks how the non-human can be represented within a human-made system.

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Is shoegaze the loneliest genre of music?

Christine Ro explores the connection between shyness and shoegaze.

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Rocking psychiatry with R D Laing

Turn on, tune in, drop out. Discover how six rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s link the ideas of famous therapist R D Laing with the era’s counterculture.

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  • Normal human male metaphase, Y banding
  • Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) sitting on a purple flower. Bees are important pollinators and play a crucial role in promoting the growth of crops and flowers. The aposematic yellow and black banding pattern on the bee acts as a warning to deter predators.
  • Top, the three-banded armadillo; centre, three-banded armadillo rolled up; bottom, the seven-banded armadillo. Coloured etching by J. Chapman, 1803.
  • Metlakahtla brass band, 1916.
  • Tsimshian brass band, Metlakahtla
  • Banded iron formation Z system
  • DNA bands on a gel
  • A twelve banded armadillo. Coloured etching.
  • Early sphygmomanometer with arm-band by Hawksley.
  • Snake, boldly cross-banded. Watercolour by Bhawani Das.
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