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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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The catharsis of cringe

Watching cringe comedy can be therapeutic. Find out why some of us are drawn to the build-up of stress in shows like ‘Frasier’ and ‘The Office’.

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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me

Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.

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A woman in her wilderness of things

Even though her home was overwhelmed with stuff, Georgie Evans’s grandma couldn’t stop buying things. In this series, Georgie delves into hoarding, and attempts to make sense of her grandma’s behaviour.

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  • Tippy tap for handwashing
  • Seven Dials, ladies obtaining water from tap, 1874
  • Engineering: a valve or tap, with a spout, in section. Coloured drawing, 1845.
  • A mosquito-proof water barrel with a tap; residents in the background. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • A flowering plant stem,, a bunch of yellow fruit and a seedling with tap root. Watercolour.
  • Lourdes, France: a pilgrim fills a flask with sacred spring water from a tap. Photograph, ca. 1937.
  • Barranquilla, Colombia: a water filter attached to a tap at the Yellow Fever Campaign office. Photograph, 1900/1930.
  • A Trinidadian woman in traditional costume carrying a metal milk pail with a tap, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • A tap running water; representing the benefits of mains water supply in France. Colour lithograph after A. Brunyer, 193- (?).
  • A girl washing her hands in a bowl above a tap in a washing cubicle; health education in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
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