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Chasing spring

Isabella Kaminski reflects on a transformative journey that saw her cycle the length of the UK, tracking the first signs of spring. She explores what the changing seasons can tell us about ourselves and the climate crisis.

  • Book extract

What the wind can bring

In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.

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Virtual reality and the fix of the future

Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.

  • Long read

Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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  • Trinity College, Dublin: Biological Association members on the steps of a College building. Photograph by J. Chancellor, 1893.
  • James William Robertson. Mezzotint by J. B. Bird, ca. 1840, after J. Syme.
  • The dying Sir Wycherly Wychecombe dictates his will. Engraving by J. Cook after J. Cawse, 1844.
  • Sir Hans Sloane. Stipple engraving by J.B. Bird after S. Slaughter, 1736.
  • Ma-hos-kah (White Cloud) the Younger, a chief of the Iowa tribe, leaning on a tomahawk. Coloured lithograph by J.T. Bowen after C. B. King, 1838.
  • The blind school, and, in the distance, Bedlam Hospital, Southwark. Coloured engraving by T. Albutt after [W.?] Read.
  • Me-na-wa, a Creek Indian. Coloured lithograph by J.T. Bowen after C.B. King, 1837.
  • Robert John Thornton, and the entrance to Guy's Hospital. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1799, after J. Russell, and W. Woolnoth after J. Elmes.
  • Robert John Thornton, and the entrance to Guy's Hospital. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1799, after J. Russell, and W. Woolnoth after J. Elmes.
  • John Storrar. Photograph by G.R. Fitt, the Album Portrait Co.
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