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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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Conflicted and confused about lithium

Covid-19 left Laura Grace Simpkins out of work and living back with her parents. She now had time to restart her research into her medication, but was she mad to continue?

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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet

Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.

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Autism assessments and me

When, as an adult, Mayanne Soret decided to get a formal diagnosis of her autism, she found that the series of assessments had a dishearteningly negative focus, seeming to frame her as a problem.

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  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: Vulcan, the Roman god of the forge: a 56 foot high statue in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy. Photograph, 1904, of a cast iron statue by Giuseppe Moretti, ca. 1904.
  • An iron mine and miners working. Etching by J. Heath, 1813, after C.M. Metz.
  • Various stages of iron mining. Etching.
  • A waterfall in Amalfi, driving a wheel outside an iron-works or iron mine. Drawing by J.Ph. Hackert, 1790.
  • Engineering: mines and tunnelling. Engraving.
  • A mine: cross-sections of a pulley and tunnels in the mine. Etching by W. Lowry.
  • The copper and silver mines of Collahuasi, Chile
  • A machine for the draining and working of mines.
  • John Taylor, mining engineer and geologist. Lithograph after T. Lawrence.
  • Coal mining and diagrams of instruments used. Etching by Bénard.
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