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Good animals, bad humans?

Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.

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A flat-packed forest

The regular ritual of creating seasonally changing mini-forests for her indoor cats brought Abi Palmer a focus for reflection while the cats explored.

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Intertwined with air

Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.

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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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  • Branching bronchus, SEM
  • Branching bronchus, SEM
  • Branching blood vessels in the retina
  • Seven different specimen of the family Cervidae (deer), showing the males with deciduos branching antlers in their natural habitat. Coloured etching by W. Warwick after Captain T. Brown.
  • Right bundle branch block
  • Branch of rosemary plant
  • Bundle branch block, left
  • Branch of rosemary plant
  • Right bundle branch block
  • Right bundle branch block
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