Stories
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
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The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
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A tree of knowledge.
Williams, John, of Catherington.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The cure of old age and preservation of youth / by Roger Bacon... ; translated out of Latin, with annotations and an account of his life and writings / by Richard Browne. Also, a physical account of the tree of life / by Edw. Madeira Arrais ; translated likewise out of Latin by the same hand.
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294Date: 1683- Books
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A treatise on the manner of raising forest trees, &c. In a letter from the Right Honourable, the Earl of - to his grandson. To which are added, two memoirs; the one on Preserving and Repairing Forests; The other on the Culture of Forests. - Both translated from the French of M. de Buffon of the Royal Academy at Paris.
Haddington, Thomas Hamilton, Earl of, 1680-1735.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- Books
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The natural history of the arbor vitae, or, Tree of life.
Stretzer, Thomas, -1738Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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The barren fig-tree; or the doom and downfall of the fruitless professor. Shewing that the day of Grace may be past with him, long before his life is ended. The Signs also, by which such miserable Mortals may be known. To which is added, his Exhortation to peace and unity among all that fear God. By John Bunyan.
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.Date: M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]