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The psychological impact of nuclear war

How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.

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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude

Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?

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The stranger who started an epidemic

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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  • Datasheet on population and development indicators from the 1999 Kenya Population and Housing Census. Colour lithograph by Central Bureau of Statistics, 1999.
  • Science vs. junk science / Robert Whelan, Director, Committee on Population & the Economy.
  • Science vs. junk science / Robert Whelan, Director, Committee on Population & the Economy.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • Census of Great Britain, 1851 : population tables.
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