Stories
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Virtual reality and the fix of the future
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
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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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Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
Catalogue
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The dodo and its kindred; or the history, affinities, and osteology of the dodo, solitaire, and other extinct birds, of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon / By H.E. Strickland ... and A.G. Melville.
Strickland, H. E. (Hugh Edwin), 1811-1853.Date: 1848- Pictures
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An extinct parrot, Ara gossei, perched on a branch. Colour halftone after J. Smit.
Smit, Joseph, active 1890.Reference: 43237i- Pictures
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The plain of Troy. Engraving by W. Skelton.
Date: [1824?]Reference: 2143637i- Archives and manuscripts
Drawings of a tiger transformed into a diornis (extinct large predatory bird) and of a crab, by Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Date: 1897Reference: MS.7348/46-47Part of: Milne-Edwards, Henri, (1800-1885) and his son Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), French zoologists- Books
Wild ones : a sometimes dismaying, weirdly reassuring story about looking at people looking at animals in America / Jon Mooallem.
Mooallem, JonDate: 2013