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Bringing Braille back to the modern world

For anyone who thinks Braille is so last century, read on. New tech is helping dust Braille down and bring it to today’s visually impaired people.

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Fashion for an unruly body

One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.

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Mapping the body

These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.

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What writing myself has revealed

Caroline Butterwick talks to two creators about how lived experience feeds their art, and reflects on her own year of writing about her life.

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  • The Hall of Columns, Karnac, Egypt; stereoscopic views. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1856/1859.
  • The Hall of Columns, Karnac, Egypt; showing hieroglyphic marks; stereoscopic views. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1856/1859.
  • Columns of the temple at Idfu, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
  • Three columns of basalt, with fragments. Aquatint, 1816.
  • Hospital Real, Santiago de Compostela: façade and columns. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Pompeii: the columns of the Stabian baths gymnasium. Photograph by Alinari, 1931.
  • Geology: an outcrop of basalt columns by the sea. Engraving by J. Chapman.
  • Skulls and skeletons of friars arranged columns around the walls of a chapel. Photograph.
  • The Temple of Kom Ombo, Aswan, Egypt: columns. Photograph by Pascal Sébah, ca. 1875.
  • Decorated columns at Karnak, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1847.
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