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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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The family food of a kebab van man

Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.

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Rethinking the placebo effect

The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.

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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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  • Paracelsvs Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature. Of The Spirits of the Planets. [Of] Occult Philosophy. The Magical, Sympathetical, and Antipathetical Cure of Wounds and Diseases. The Mysteries of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack / Englished by R. Turner.
  • Paracelsvs Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature. Of The Spirits of the Planets. [Of] Occult Philosophy. The Magical, Sympathetical, and Antipathetical Cure of Wounds and Diseases. The Mysteries of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack / Englished by R. Turner.
  • The Kabbalah unveiled, containing the following books of the Zohar : 1. The book of concealed mystery. 2. The greater holy assembly. 3. The lesser holy assembly / translated into English from the Latin version of Knorr von Rosenroth, and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew text by S.L. MacGregor Mathers.
  • The Kabbalah unveiled, containing the following books of the Zohar : 1. The book of concealed mystery. 2. The greater holy assembly. 3. The lesser holy assembly / translated into English from the Latin version of Knorr von Rosenroth, and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew text by S.L. MacGregor Mathers.
  • The Kabbalah unveiled, containing the following books of the Zohar : 1. The book of concealed mystery. 2. The greater holy assembly. 3. The lesser holy assembly / translated into English from the Latin version of Knorr von Rosenroth, and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew text by S.L. MacGregor Mathers.
  • The Kabbalah unveiled, containing the following books of the Zohar : 1. The book of concealed mystery. 2. The greater holy assembly. 3. The lesser holy assembly / translated into English from the Latin version of Knorr von Rosenroth, and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew text by S.L. MacGregor Mathers.
  • The Kabbalah unveiled, containing the following books of the Zohar : 1. The book of concealed mystery. 2. The greater holy assembly. 3. The lesser holy assembly / translated into English from the Latin version of Knorr von Rosenroth, and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew text by S.L. MacGregor Mathers.
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