Stories
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Books
Six impossible things before breakfast : the evolutionary origins of belief / Lewis Wolpert.
Wolpert, L. (Lewis)Date: 2006- Books
Problems of belief / by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller.
Schiller, F. C. S. (Ferdinand Canning Scott), 1864-1937.Date: [1924]- Books
The psychology of belief / by Helge Lundholm.
Lundholm, Helge, 1891-1955.Date: 1936- Books
On belief / Slavoj Zizek.
Žižek, SlavojDate: 2001- Books
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On causation : with a chapter on belief / by Charles A. Mercier.
Mercier, Charles Arthur, 1852-1919.Date: 1916