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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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How architecture builds a profession of stress

Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.

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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.

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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations

Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.

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  • Surveying: equipment for surveying, a level, a plumb-line, etc. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.
  • Surveying: methods of surveying hills around a bay (?). Engraving by J.B.P. Tardieu.
  • Surveying: levels and other equipment. Engraving by J.B.P. Tardieu.
  • Surveying: a surveyor's level, disassembled (above) and assembled (below). Engraving by H. Mutlow, 1810.
  • Surveying: a theodolite made by Jesse Ramsden. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1819, after J. Farey.
  • Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
  • Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
  • An Arabic (?) man singing from a songbook; African or Indian men surveying the land; westerners sowing seed and reaping; smiths hammering iron. Engraving.
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