Stories
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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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Intertwined with air
Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.
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Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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Shame and how our bodies betray us
Embarrassment about our desires, bodies and bodily functions can silence us. Lucia Osborne-Crowley asks whether a low-level but constant sense of shame is stopping us getting the help we need.
Catalogue
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An essay on human life.
Pagett, Thomas Catesby, 1689-1742.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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An essay on human life. By the Right Honourable the Lord Pacet.
Pagett, Thomas Catesby, 1689-1742.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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A looking-Glass that flatters not: representing the unhappy and tottering state of men in power, tho' rais'd to the highest pinnacle of honour and greatness: Being Contemplations And Reflections Upon The several Degrees and Changes of Human Life, from the Prince to the Peasant. Me dulcis saturet Quies, &c. Written by a displac'd courtier.
Displac'd courtier.Date: [1711]- Books
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Disputatio medica inauguralis, de vit? human? gradibus; quam, Annuente Summo Numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Georgii Baird, S. S. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; Necnon Amplissimi Senatus Academici Consensu, Et Nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae Decreto, Pro Gradu Doctoris, Summisque In Medicina Honoribus AC Privilegiis Rite ET Legitime Consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Richardus Bedon Screven, Carolinae Australis Civis, Societ, Phys. Reg. Edin. Soc. Hon. AD Diem 24 Junii, Hora Locoque Solitis.
Screven, Richard Bedon, 1778-1856.Date: 1799- Books
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An essay on the Mosaic account of the creation and fall of man.
Lardner, Nathaniel, 1684-1768.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]