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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me

Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.

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The art of scientific glassblowing

Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.

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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac

Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.

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History of condoms from animal to rubber

Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.

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  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - Snake-Coil boil
  • Faraday's magnetic sparking coil
  • A moving coil galvanometer.
  • Radiograph by W.K. Roentgen: wire coil; 1895
  • Demonstration of the Great Electric Induction Coil at the Polytechnic Institution in London in 1869 by Professor Pepper.
  • Demonstration of the Great Electric Induction Coil at the Polytechnic Institution in London in 1869 by Professor Pepper.
  • A woman tending corn in a field recommends using the coil: the Acquire Project for family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A man wearing a loin cloth holding a stick with a piece of cloth draped around it and a coil of string. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A man entwined in the coils of DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • A man entwined in the coils of DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
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