Stories
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
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Mathematical proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Date: 1975-- Books
Medicine and society : contemporary medical problems in historical perspective four symposia / conducted under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society and the Dept. of the History and Sociology of Science of Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania.
Date: 1971- Journals
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Mathematical and physical sciences
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Index to the Proceedings and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1931-1940.
Royal Society (Great Britain)Date: [1942?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Date: 1968-1969Reference: PP/CRI/E/1/17/10Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives