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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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Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed

Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.

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It’s getting mighty crowded

Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.

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When self-deception becomes global hoax

Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.

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  • British prisoners of war posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • British prisoners of war posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A sixteenth-century iron arm: two figures, including a cross-section. Line engraving by J. Skelton after S.R. Meyrick.
  • Mérida city, Colombia. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
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