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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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Theriac: An ancient brand?

The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.

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In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears

Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming

Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.

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  • A variety of shells, cone-shells, fossils and corals. Coloured lithograph.
  • Cross-sections of zoophytes, including corals, sea anemones and sponges. Lithograph by C. Busk.
  • Above, two reef building corals (millepora), a diving bird, a narwhal (monodon), a mollusc and a musk deer; below, a small warbler (whitethroat), two fish, a sea serpent, a conger eel, two molluscs (murices) and a mureana. Engraving by Heath.
  • A coral. Coloured etching.
  • Coral, rough beads, fragments.
  • Bells, 2 conical; on coral; on siren; sistrum.
  • Indian coral merchant selling jewelry to a woman. Gouache drawing.
  • The British Museum: the Coral Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.
  • Geography: coral reefs, in the tropics. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • A coral reef in the Red Sea. Colour line block after E. Haeckel.
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