Stories
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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
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Chemotherapy-day drawings
Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.
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Documents of my breath
Swati Joshi’s childhood bronchitis meant that she couldn’t imagine being able to breathe easily. As an adult, she chronicles her recovery through artworks created using bubbles and her breath.
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Temperature Sensitive
Date: 1962-1963Reference: SB/6/2/54Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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Temperature-Sensitive Mutation Affecting Myofilament Assembly of C. Elegans - Epstein and Thomson
Date: 1969-1979Reference: SB/2/3/61Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Books
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On the modifications produced in the temperature of the body by the local application of cold and heat / by Frederick Barham Nunneley, M.D.
Nunneley, Frederick B. (Frederick Barham)Date: 1871- Books
Circadian rhythms : a subject collection from Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology / edited by Paolo Sassone-Corsi, University of California, Irvine, Michael W. Young, the Rockefeller University, Akhilesh B. Reddy, the Francis Crick Institute.
Date: [2018]- Books
Case of torpor from cold : and some general observations on the effects of diminished temperature upon the living system / by George Kellie.
Kellie, George, -1829Date: 1805