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Drawing the human animal

We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.

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Daria Martin on ‘Sensorium Tests’ and ‘At the Threshold’

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Finding out where my lithium comes from

The origins of the lithium Laura Grace Simpkins swallows daily are unclear. If we don’t know the provenance of our pills, how can we make informed decisions about them?

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The ugly truth about fast fashion

Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.

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  • A tower of red and cerise triangles. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A tower of red and cerise triangles. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Two men sit in discussion next to a teapot and cups, two triangles joined at the point with the letters 'H,E and S' and a film camera representing an advertisement for a series of films about HIV and AIDS by Kursiv and ACT Up. Photocopy, 1993.
  • Symbols within triangles symbolise warnings, symbols within squares represent safe activities referring to what people should know about AIDS and what they should and should not do. Colour lithgoraph by Publistyle International for the Commissione Nazionale per la lotta contro l'AIDS, Ministero della Sanità, ca. 1995.
  • Photograph Burroughs Wellcome Research Triangle, USA.
  • Blue lotus protective triangle. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A red triangle neatly supported by wooden blocks spelling tidiness. Colour lithograph after Reiss.
  • God, as a triangle representing the Trinity, pours light upon the Garden of Eden. Engraving.
  • 3 identical silver coins joined to form triangle. On one side are three little men.
  • A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995.
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