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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles

Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.

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How architecture builds a profession of stress

Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.

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The shape of thought

Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.

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Sick of being lonely

When his relationship ended, Thom James first withdrew from the world, then began to suffer from illnesses with no apparent physical cause.

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  • A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving by F. van der Steen after N. van Hoey after Michelangelo.
  • Four groups of different generations of people in varying relationships. Colour line block with letterpress after E. Pyke and E. Farjeon.
  • A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • A board game leading to the mansion of happiness, with the rules of the game. Engraving.
  • A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • The coat of arms of virginity. Engraving by P. Velyn after L.A. Vintcent after J. Cats.
  • Clean well trained children saluting the Red Flag, with scenes showing the need for cleanliness and hygiene among Chinese children. Colour lithograph, 196- (?).
  • Hercules between Virtue and Vice. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • Hercules at the crossroads; representing the choice between different ways of life. Engraving by A. Scultori (Ghisi) after Giulio Romano.
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