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We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies

Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.

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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry

Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.

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The metamorphosis of masturbation

Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?

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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry

Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.

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  • Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about 2250 B.C : autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections and erasures, with map, frontispiece and photograph of text / by Robert Francis Harper.
  • The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about 2250 B.C : autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections and erasures, with map, frontispiece and photograph of text / by Robert Francis Harper.
  • Equinoctial ring-dial signed "A.C. Toblhanhb Mockba" (i.e. A.S. Trinidin, Moscow) undated, 18th century. One side of instrument showing inscriptions on dials (some of numerical inscriptions and the names of the signs of the Zodiac are duplicated in Arabic, using Abjad for the numerals) also the calender scale which may compensate for the equation of time.
  • Liver with numerous abscesses
  • Pancreas with numerous tubercular deposits
  • Astonomical figures with numerical calculations
  • Astonomical figures with numerical calculations
  • Astonomical figures with numerical calculations
  • Astonomical figures with numerical calculations
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