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A message from my skin

As wildfires threatened Seattle, resident Sydney Baker experienced corresponding flares of acne and rashes. Her skin was telling her something about the health of the world around her.

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The joys and failures of audio description

Audio description enhances the experience of watching a film or TV show for people with a visual impairment, but it's not widely available in the UK. Alex Lee explains why.

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The island of unclaimed bodies

In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.

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Inside the Cold War mind

Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.

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  • Tellima grandiflora (Pursh)Lindl. Saxifragaceae Distribution: Western North America from Alaska to California. The Native American Skagit tribe from Washington State, used it to improve appetite. The Nitinaht used it to stop having dreams of sexual intercourse with the dead (Moerman, 1998), Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The United States Treasury, Washington D.C. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • A blue sun with green rays against a block of yellow, pink and blue representing an advertisement for MAPS, a Multifaith AIDS Project of Seattle. Colour lithograph.
  • United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.
  • United States Internal Revenue stamp for special tax : received from ... the sum of ... dollars for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer to be carried on at ... : May 1873 ... April 1874.
  • A healthy-looking man with a tourniquet having a blood test, as apparent health can conceal syphilis. Colour lithograph by L. Karsakov, 1941.
  • A red ribbon representing an AIDS Awareness stamp; advertisement for World AIDS Day, December 1 1993 by the American Association for World Health. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • The Capitol building, Washington D.C. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • The Capitol building, Washington D.C.: Pennsylvania Avenue in the foreground. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • Children walking up a grassy knoll in the open air, taking healthy exercise. Colour lithograph after F. L. Mora. 1918.
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