Stories
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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
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On Protorosaurus speneri (Von Meyer) / by H.G. Seeley.
Seeley, H. G. (Harry Govier), 1839-1909.Date: 1887- Books
Museum storage and meaning : tales from the crypt / edited by Mirjam Brusius and Kavita Singh.
Date: 2018
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British Museum Library.
Date: 1912- Books
Future face : 1 October - 13 February 2005 : a Wellcome Trust exhibition at the Science Museum.
Wellcome Trust (London, England)Date: [2005]- Archives and manuscripts
'Dartford Museum' - Negatives & Transfers: Advertisements, BW&Co Staff
Date: 1885-1961Reference: WF/M/I/DM/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd