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Why the scariest monsters look almost human

Something is wrong, but you’re not sure what. Amy Jones explores exactly why your worst nightmare is the monster that’s almost human.

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Surviving the storm of postnatal depression

Emma Jane Unsworth lays bare the despair of postnatal depression and shares her route to recovery.

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Breath

Imagine a blow-hole in your crown.

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Beyond a green carpet

Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.

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  • Ecuadorian metal object with three holes, from Huigra
  • Jesus and the apostles pass judgement on the dead, who emerge from square holes in the ground. Etching.
  • A smith makes holes in a sheet of metal on an anvil, other tools lie nearby. Etching by José Garcia Hidalgo.
  • Bought of George Walker : florist, fruiterer & greengrocer : button holes, dress sprays, wreaths and crosses : families waited upon daily for orders.
  • A girl eating sweets and looking at a note warning of "holes ahead", referring to the danger of dental caries. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
  • A child with plugs in holes in his earlobes - to gradually increase the size, for ornamental purposes. Halftone after a photograph by J.W. Beattie.
  • A man in Africa sitting imprisoned on the ground, with his hands and feet locked into holes made in cut-down tree trunks. Wood engraving after P.B. Du Chaillu, 1867.
  • Mosquitoes: American soldiers in World War II can encourage them to breed them by leaving ruts in roads and unfilled earth holes, causing mosquito-borne diseases. Colour lithograph after A. Wells , 1944.
  • A Scotsman using a lavatory for the first time, is seated on a latrine with his legs thrust down the holes in the board and his hands placed before him; his urine trickles over the edge of the toilet. Engraving by C. Mosley, 1745.
  • Elephant's hair. Slide by Topping - x165 - lamp. Beck Intensity and ground glass and wratten 45a filter. Condenser - Leitz 1.4 NA. Camera ext. 215 mm. Plate - Kodak Pan. Exp. 5.75m. Fine grain 1D11. Talen F.C. Griggs 29.9.48 op.lat. Top lens removed. OBJ. Watson Holes 12mm. 0.65 N.n. used 182 mm. thickcore Eyepiece x 14.
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