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Electric marvels in the age of enlightenment

How our understanding of electricity has grown, from novelty to the pulse of modern life – and the inner fire that powers the human machine.

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The first seizure

Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.

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Why zombies can’t help coming back

Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.

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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.

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  • Pipe, argillite shale, very fine carving with intricately interlacing totemic figures of animals and supernatural creatures. Collected by the late Mr. George Roberts of Hudson's bay company. Haida Indians, North West Coast of America, Queen Charlotte Islands.
  • Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon].
  • Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon].
  • Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon].
  • R. Fludd, Tomus secundus...de supernaturali,
  • Tomus secundus ... de supernaturali, naturali, praeternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia, in tractatus tres distributa. [Tomi secundi tractatus primi, sectio secunda, de technica microcosmi historia. Tomi secundi tractatus secundus, de praeternaturali utriusque mundi historia] / [Robert Fludd].
  • Tomus secundus ... de supernaturali, naturali, praeternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia, in tractatus tres distributa. [Tomi secundi tractatus primi, sectio secunda, de technica microcosmi historia. Tomi secundi tractatus secundus, de praeternaturali utriusque mundi historia] / [Robert Fludd].
  • Tomus secundus ... de supernaturali, naturali, praeternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia, in tractatus tres distributa. [Tomi secundi tractatus primi, sectio secunda, de technica microcosmi historia. Tomi secundi tractatus secundus, de praeternaturali utriusque mundi historia] / [Robert Fludd].
  • Tomus secundus ... de supernaturali, naturali, praeternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia, in tractatus tres distributa. [Tomi secundi tractatus primi, sectio secunda, de technica microcosmi historia. Tomi secundi tractatus secundus, de praeternaturali utriusque mundi historia] / [Robert Fludd].
  • Tomus secundus ... de supernaturali, naturali, praeternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia, in tractatus tres distributa. [Tomi secundi tractatus primi, sectio secunda, de technica microcosmi historia. Tomi secundi tractatus secundus, de praeternaturali utriusque mundi historia] / [Robert Fludd].
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Smoke and Mirrors Live Performances

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Performance by Dr Matthew L Tompkins

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Part of Smoke and Mirrors Live Performances

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