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Religion and mental health

At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.

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Eating their own kind

In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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The ugly truth about fast fashion

Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.

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  • French sailors throwing manacled black soldiers off a ship into the a sea populated by large carnivorous animals. Engraving by J. Barlow after M. Rainsford.
  • A rock beauty, a black angel fish, a blue angel fish and a french angel fish swimming in the sea. Colour line block after H. Murayama.
  • Islamic map of the world. The north is at the bottom, with the west to the right surrounded by unknown seas. The Indian Ocean, with the Red Sea, is on the left, with China, India and Iran in boxes to the right. The other sea shown is the Mediterranean next to which is a black square indicating Rome and a circle Constantinople. The Nile flows from the Mediterranean to the east and into the north then turn east and head towards a large circle indicating its source in Africa.
  • A Turkish man seated on a stool near a gallows prepares a noose inscribed "Declaration of war against the Allies". Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • Marks on the nails of the finger and thumb caused by seasickness
  • Aidez-vous à sauver les tuberculeux réformés : [Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires]
  • Aidez-vous à sauver les tuberculeux réformés : [Guerre 1914-1917 : Journée nationale des tuberculeux anciens militaires]
  • The story of whitebait : (and how to cook it).
  • The story of whitebait : (and how to cook it).
  • Seven flowering aquatic plants, including eelgrass (Zostera marina) and bog rush (Schoenus nigricans). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
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