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How homesickness inspires art

Gail Tolley looks at homesickness through the eyes of three contemporary artists and finds powerful new themes of identity and connection.

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Finding out where my lithium comes from

The origins of the lithium Laura Grace Simpkins swallows daily are unclear. If we don’t know the provenance of our pills, how can we make informed decisions about them?

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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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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona

Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.

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  • National AIDS prevention campaign in Chile
  • A machi, or medicine woman, Araucania, Chile.
  • The copper and silver mines of Collahuasi, Chile
  • Processing of copper in Chile. Lithograph by G. Scharf, 1824, after P. Schmidtmeyer.
  • A crowd of people representing the fact that over 13,000 people are at risk of HIV in Chile; issued by the Ministerio de Salud, Chile as part of a National AIDS prevention campaign. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • Travellers in Chile arrive at a village by night. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf after P. Schmidtmeyer.
  • Two travellers and a patient on a stretcher travel towards the baths at Cauquenes, Chile. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf.
  • [Leaflet advertising the exhibition of The Petrified Man from Tucapel, Chile, in the Trance Room of the Royal Aquarium, London].
  • An Araucanian woman in Chile carrying a sleeping child on her back in a wooden carrier, supported by a strap around her head. Photograph, ca. 1913.
  • Tigridia pavonia (L.f.)DC. Iridaceae Distribution: Peru. These colourful, tulip-like flowers were named by De Candolle for Joseph (José) Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840), the Spanish pharmacist/botanist who accompanied Hipólito Ruiz and Joseph Dombey on their epic botanising in Peru and Chile (1777-1788) in search of quinine and medicinal plants. On the 8th April 1777, King Carlos III of Spain gave permission for the three botanists and two artists to travel from Spain to America to study the flora of Peru and Chile, then Spanish dominions. Initially around Lima, and then further afield, they collected plants which their artists painted
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