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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 stranger who started an epidemic

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

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What the wind can bring

In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.

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The chymist’s trade card

An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.

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  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Ways in which AIDS is not spread from shaking hands and hugging to mosquito and insect bites; an advertisement by the Directorate of Health Services in Manipur. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • The HIV virus with the silhouette of a couple, 2 people injecting drugs and a blood transfusion; below further illustrations relating to ways in which AIDS is not transmitted including through insect bites and handshaking; a warning about how AIDS is and is not contracted. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea Physic Garden, London. Close-up of bees at honeycomb tray. Insect members of the superfamily Apoidea, found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers. Their young are fed honey and pollen rather than animal food. Honey is collected in the form of nectar from flowers and concentrated into honey by evaporation. For most people bee stings are of little significance and are treated locally; other persons, however, react with hypersensitivity putting them in serious danger.
  • Sheep's-bit plant (Jasione montana) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Nine green and red diagrams with Portuguese lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
  • Nine green and red diagrams with Spanish lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
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