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The art of soundproof design

Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.

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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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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 history of brainwashing

Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.

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  • Two condoms with a message that only fools don't use condoms to combat the spread of AIDS; a safer-sex advertisement by the State of Connecticut Department of Health Services. Lithograph.
  • A man's midriff with open jeans and a hand holding a condom; promotion for safe sex by the Connecticut Department of Health Services. Colour lithograph.
  • Milford E. Barnes (Director for Siam of the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division), outside a wooden cottage at the Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand. Photograph, 1921.
  • Annual report of the Local Government Board. Supplement containing the report of the Medical Officer.
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