Stories
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How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
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Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
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Dazzling luxury
As the 20th century dawned, both elite and masses basked in the marvellous and unearthly glow of the new electric illumination.
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Interpreting the Ayurvedic Man
A British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali painting about Ayurvedic medicine.
Catalogue
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Daylight must come : the story of Dr. Helen Roseveare / by Alan Burgess.
Burgess, Alan, 1915-1998.Date: 1975- Books
Daylight : its nature, therapeutic properties, measurement and legal protection / [John Swarbrick] ; foreword by Rt. Hon. Lord Horder.
Swarbrick, John, 1879-1964.Date: 1953- Archives and manuscripts
108663/Z/15/Z: Standard Deviation: Daylight, Darkness, Time and the Body
Date: c.2015Reference: WT/C/6/3/58Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The waste of daylight : text of the Daylight Saving Bill, opinions of eminent men, statement of progress to March, 1914.
Willett, William, 1856-1915.Date: 1914- Books
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Every man entertained: or, select histories: giving an account of persons who have been most eminently distinguish'd by their virtues or vices, their Perfections or Defects, either of Body or Mind. The Whole collected from the best Authors, with the Addition of several curious Particulars never before published; and digested under the following Heads: Apparitions. Persons who have return'd to Life after they have been supposed to be dead. Great Sleepers, and Walkers in their Sleep. Great Eaters and Drinkers. Vast Strength of some Persons. Persons wonderfully preserv'd from Death. Extraordinary Longevity. Giants and Dwarfs. Monstrous and preternatural Births. Strange Discoveries of Murder. The Strength of Imagination. Great Memory. Singular Chastity. Pride and Ambition. Instance of Temperance and long Abstinence. Dreams, Presages, and Predictions. Magicians, Wizards, and Witches. Loving Husbands and Wives.
Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]