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Getting sexy with cinnamon

Add some flavour to your love life with this spice. It will warm up more than just your buns.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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The first seizure

Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.

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Queer cafés and gay mylk

Holly Regan explores queer London spaces where the alternative – oat milk – is the norm for the communities gathering there.

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  • A Coconut charm, New Ginuea
  • A Coconut charm, New Ginuea
  • A Coconut charm, New Ginuea
  • A Coconut charm, New Ginuea
  • A Coconut charm, New Ginuea
  • A Coconut charm, New Ginuea
  • A Coconut charm, New Ginuea
  • Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807, after J. Ihle.
  • Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera): four sections of the fruit and nut. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807, after J. Ihle.
  • Singapore: bungalows under coconut palms at Tanjong Katong. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
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