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A little wildness

To salve her longing for a dog, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan chose a puppy. She found that, despite centuries of domestication, her dog still retains aspects of her wild ancestry.

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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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The father of handwashing

Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.

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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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  • Sir William Bayliss: "Brown dog" experiment.
  • An experiment; led to the "brown dog" vivisection dispute.
  • Statue of brown dog
  • A dark brown iris of a dog.
  • Native Americans shake hands with a Western visitor, who is shown standing beside a sledge drawn by dogs; wigwams are seen in the background. Pencil and brown wash.
  • Metastatic neoplasia of omentum tissue, canine
  • Dog (puppy) with cleft palate
  • Up to 40% cheaper pet insurance : we'll look after the unexpected vet bills from £4 for cats and £7 for dogs per month / Tesco Personal Finance Limited.
  • Up to 40% cheaper pet insurance : we'll look after the unexpected vet bills from £4 for cats and £7 for dogs per month / Tesco Personal Finance Limited.
  • Pets Pantry : [mobile delivery service].
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