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The art of soundproof design

Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.

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In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies

The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.

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An insider’s view of Play Well

Curator Shamita Sharmacharja offers behind-the-scenes insights into an exhibition about the serious business of play.

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  • Reasons for not rushing into sex the first time; advertisement by the Michigan Department of Public Health. Lithograph.
  • A group of young men and women sit around two portable radios: promoting a health radio programme for teenagers in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ca. 2000.
  • A group of young men and women sit around two portable radios: promoting a health radio programme for teenagers in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ca. 2000.
  • A blue silhouette figure stands with one arm resting on a cave wall, the other behind his head as he looks out at a sunset across the sea in the form of a blue target with a yellow surround; an advertisement for the 1st meeting about Andalucian AIDS and Society on 2 December 1989, a collaboration by the Civic Committee of Anti-AIDS Granada and the Andalusian School of Public Health. Colour lithograph. 1989.
  • 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.
  • Advice on contraception in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Malaria treatment for children in Ghana. Colour lithograph by Ghana Health Service, ca. 2000.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
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