Stories
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The intimate and invasive art of ethical taxidermy
Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?
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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
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The Martians are coming
For over a hundred years, antagonistic alien invaders have been a popular focus for the imagined end of the world. But the destructive consequences of human behaviour is far more frightening.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
Catalogue
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Invasive monitoring and its complications in the intensive care unit / Arnold Sladen.
Sladen, Arnold, 1926-Date: 1990- Books
Invasive hepatic amoebiasis one hundred years ago : the Seamen's Hospital Society's experience (1870-95) / G.C. Cook.
Cook, G. C.Date: 1999- Books
Invasive fungal infection : proceedings of the meeting of an Expert Panel in Annecy, France, on 8 January 1999 ... / ed. by D.W. Denning, B. Dupont, B. de Pauw.
Date: 1999
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Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. Mimosaceae. Australian Blackwood. Tree. Distribution: Eastern Australia. Tree. Invasive weed in South Africa, Portugal, California. Local uses: analgesic. Causes allergic contact dermatitis due to 2,6,dimethoxybenzoquinone. Pinnate leaves of young plant drop off and phylloclades are formed instead. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley
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Squamous carcinoma, invasive