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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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The new help to discourse: or, Wit and mirth intermixed with moreserious matters: Consisting of pleasant, philosophical, physical, historical, moral, and political questions and answers. With proverbs, epitaphs, epigrams, riddles, posies, rules for behaviour, &c. With several wonders and varieties; particularly a concise history of all the Kings of England from the Norman conquest, down to King George I. Together, with directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy, holy-days, and husbandry, in a plain method. By W.W. Gent.
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.Date: 1799- Books
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The new help to discourse. Or wit and mirth intermix'd with more serious matters; Consisting of Pleasant, Philosophical, Physical, Historical, Moral, and Political Questions and Answers: With Proverbs, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Riddles, Posies, Rules for Behaviour, &c. With several Wonders and Varieties, particularly, A concise History of all the Kings of England, from the Norman Conquest, down to King George. Together with Directions for the true Knowledge of several Matters concerning Astronomy, Holy-Days and Husbandry, in a plain Method. By W. W. gent.
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.Date: 1733- Books
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The shandymonian: containing a conclamation of original pieces, a higgledy-piggledy of controversies and opinions on various interesting Subjects; Detections and Confutations of Vulgar Errors, And Errors not Vulgar; Extraordinary Incidents; and a Salmagunda of Lucubrations, Intended as the true Pabulum Mentis: Consisting of Morsels of History, Physiology, Fragments of Art, Portions of Humour, Goblets of Ratiocination, Crumbs of Comfort, Piece-Meals of Oeconomy, &c. Adapted to all Climes and Capacities, And composed of such useful Materials that no wise Person in the World ought to be without. The second edition. By Thomas Medley, Esq; Vice President of Bollimong College, Doctor of Gallimafry, Utopian Professor of Oddities, and Fellow of Civil Society.
Medley, Thomas, Esq.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Hotch potch. Containing a conclamation of original pieces, a higgledy-piggledy of controversies and opinions on various interesting Subjects; Detections and Confutations of Vulgar Errors, and Errors not Vulgar; Extraordinary Incidents; And a Salmagunda of Lucubrations; Intended as the true Pabulum Mentis: consisting of morsels of history, physiology, fragments of art, Portions of Humour, Goblets of Ratiocination, Crumbs of Comfort, Piece-Meals of Oeconomy, &c. adapted to all climes and capacities, And composed of such useful Materials, that no wise Person in the World ought to be without it. Volume I. By Thomas Medley, Esq; Vice President of Bollimong College, Doctor of Gallimafry, Utopian Professor of Oddities, And Fellow of Civil Society.
Medley, Thomas, Esq.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Bell's common place book, for the pocket; form'd generally upon the principles recommended and practised by Mr. Locke.
Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]