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The side effects of lithium mining

Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.

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Conflicted and confused about lithium

Covid-19 left Laura Grace Simpkins out of work and living back with her parents. She now had time to restart her research into her medication, but was she mad to continue?

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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet

Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.

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Autism assessments and me

When, as an adult, Mayanne Soret decided to get a formal diagnosis of her autism, she found that the series of assessments had a dishearteningly negative focus, seeming to frame her as a problem.

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  • Coal mining and diagrams of instruments used. Etching by Bénard.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Consolidation, Fairmont and Somerset Coal Companies exhibition stand: models of the mines. Photograph, 1904.
  • Apparatus for coal mining and two illustrations of coalmines. Engraving by A. Krausse for G. Heck.
  • A coal mine: miners at work above and below ground. Coloured lithograph.
  • Wattstown, Wales: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment and a training dummy. Photograph by A. Davies, 1914.
  • Wattstown, Wales: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment and a training dummy. Photograph by A. Davies, 1914.
  • Sections of a coal mine. Etching by Garner.
  • Improved machinery for use working coal mines. Etching by J. Pass.
  • Engineering: mines and tunnelling. Engraving.
  • A mine: cross-sections of a pulley and tunnels in the mine. Etching by W. Lowry.
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