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Designing death in the virtual city

Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.

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Communities of cross-feeders

A desire to help leads some women to “cross-feed” – breastfeed other parents’ babies for free. Alev Scott delves into the emotions behind this altruistic act.

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A freezer full of breastmilk

When new mum Alev Scott began pumping her milk between feeds, she soon found she was freezing more breastmilk than her baby would ever need. So Alev began to investigate ways to share her oversupply.

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Hyperfocus and hobbies

Alex Chan talks about the power of ADHD-associated hyperfocus and how they’ve become wary of feeding it too often.

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  • "Flora" dietary supplement being fed by an old farmer to a cow and a horse. Colour lithograph by J.V. Cissarz, 1898.
  • "Flora" dietary supplement being fed by an old farmer to a cow and a horse. Colour lithograph by J.V. Cissarz, 1898.
  • A girl wearing clogs turns the hay for cows in their shed. Etching by Jules Laurens.
  • Keep your hunters in condition by using Henri's horse condition powders... / manufactured by Henri's Patent Cattle Feed Co.
  • Keep your hunters in condition by using Henri's horse condition powders... / manufactured by Henri's Patent Cattle Feed Co.
  • Tsetse fly feeding on human blood
  • Infant's feeding bottle, rubber teats and box
  • Glass infant's feeding bottle, rubber teats and box
  • Glass infant's feeding bottle, rubber teats and box
  • A date palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera) and segments of the fruit bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
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Zebrafish and Human Behaviour

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