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Tripping for spiritualism and science

Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.

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The relationship between science and art

Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.

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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science

The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.

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Aphasia and drawing elephants

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

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  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students preparing medicine. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • NCUACS : National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists under the guidance of the Royal Society's National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology : with compliments.
  • Asclepiad : a book of original research and observation in the science, art and literature of medicine, preventive and curative / by Benjamin Ward Richardson.
  • The Dublin quarterly journal of medical science : consisting of original communications, reviews, retrospects, and reports, including the latest discoveries in medicine, surgery, and the collateral sciences.
  • The Dublin quarterly journal of medical science : consisting of original communications, reviews, retrospects, and reports, including the latest discoveries in medicine, surgery, and the collateral sciences.
  • Many problems in industry, commerce, science and medicine can be solved by means of colour and colour-measuring methods : a Lovibond comparator and a set of colour standards may be the answer to your problems / Tintometer Limited.
  • Many problems in industry, commerce, science and medicine can be solved by means of colour and colour-measuring methods : a Lovibond comparator and a set of colour standards may be the answer to your problems / Tintometer Limited.
  • Many problems in industry, commerce, science and medicine can be solved by means of colour and colour-measuring methods : a Lovibond comparator and a set of colour standards may be the answer to your problems / Tintometer Limited.
  • Many problems in industry, commerce, science and medicine can be solved by means of colour and colour-measuring methods : a Lovibond comparator and a set of colour standards may be the answer to your problems / Tintometer Limited.
  • Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc / Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper.
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