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The shifting shape of language

Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.

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Illness and the influence of the stars

Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.

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The healing power of breathing

The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.

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The art of scientific glassblowing

Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.

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  • King's College Chapel, east range of the Old Schools and Senate house, Cambridge. Line engraving.
  • King's College Chapel, east range of the Old Schools, and the Senate House, Cambridge. Line engraving by Neele & Son.
  • The Cambridge Medical School : a biographical history / [Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston].
  • A graph across a map of the world showing the growing pandemic and stalling response to the AIDS crisis between the years 1981 and 1993; advertisement by The Global AIDS Policy Coalition. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge: Caius Court towards the Gate of Honour. Line engraving by J. & H.S. Storer.
  • Cecil Beaton in theatrical drag, with others. Photograph by Hill & Saunders , ca. 1925.
  • Cecil Beaton in theatrical drag, with others. Photograph by Hill & Saunders , ca. 1925.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
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