Stories
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Crime drama and the realistic cadaver
Today we are accustomed to the increasingly realistic look of dead bodies in on-screen dramas. Special-effects expert Hildegunn M S Traa reveals how crime and morgue scenes reflect the social idea of death.
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
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Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
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How ritual creates meaning
In a world that encourages us to quash our sense of wonder, ritual can help push away apathy and nurture life-enhancing creativity and imagination.
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Edinburgh University Group portrait. Including H.G. Dunbar , C.M. Campbell, A.N. Fell, Alexander Frew, R.G. Gordon, David Hepburn, A.W.M. Harvey, Mathew Holmes, E.B., M.B., Ch.B. Jamieson, E. L. Meynell, John Lovett, William Maclaren, Sir William Turner, K.C.B., William Lilico, B.P. Watson, S.A.K., Wilson, David Waterson, I. Scott, R.E. Russell, A.B. Ross, H.H. Robarts.
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Tablets. I. The evolution of the tablet machine. II. A bibliography on tablets ... / by P.A. Foote.
Foote, P. A. (Perry Albert)Date: [1928]
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Mathematicall magick. Or, the wonders that may be performed by mechanicall geometry. In two books. Concerning mechanicall powers [and] motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) part of mathematicks. Not before treated of in this language / By I[ohn] W[ilkins] M.A.
Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.Date: 1648
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M0004717: A physician giving a lecture to five students, taken from Nicaise: 'La Grande Chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac (1890)
Date: 25 August 1936Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/38/12Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Journals
I. A. M. C. journal.