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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs

The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.

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Booze and bad behaviour

Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.

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History of condoms from animal to rubber

Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.

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The meaning of happiness

What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.

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  • History of the microscope..., December, 1948
  • De frugum historia liber unus. Ejusdem epistolae duae, una de farre, chondro, trago, ptisana, crimino et alica. Altera de zytho et cerevisia / [Rembert Dodoens].
  • De frugum historia liber unus. Ejusdem epistolae duae, una de farre, chondro, trago, ptisana, crimino et alica. Altera de zytho et cerevisia / [Rembert Dodoens].
  • Hortus sanitatis, quatuor libris haec quae snbsequuntur [sic] complectens. De animalibus et reptilibus. De avibus et volatilibus. De piscibus et natatilibus. De gemmis et in vevis [sic] terrae nascentibus ... Omnia castigatius, quam hactenus videre licuit.
  • De consolatione philosophiae / [Boethius].
  • Liber chronicarum / [Hartmann Schedel].
  • Liber chronicarum / [Hartmann Schedel].
  • Liber chronicarum / [Hartmann Schedel].
  • Liber chronicarum / [Hartmann Schedel].
  • Liber chronicarum / [Hartmann Schedel].
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