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The joy of playing hide-and-seek with rats

Playing hide-and-seek with lab rats has shown scientists that joy can be a great motivator for learning and social interaction – and not just for rats.

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Busting myths about turkey-baster babies

The popular idea of sex-free, turkey-baster-led conception has been around since the 1970s. Christine Ro goes beyond the utensils drawer to find out if it’s ever really happened.

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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard

Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.

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Trading breastmilk with men

When Alev Scott advertised her milk for sale, she was inundated with messages from men keen to satisfy sexual fetishes. Here she finds out who they are, and why women sell to them.

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  • A family gather around a man sick in bed with AIDS with shops selling condoms visible through the window beyond; a painting by the Kenyan artist, Allan K. Githuka representing an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Danish Volunteer Service in Nairobi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Animal Diseases Research Association : Moredun Institute, Gilmerton, Midlothian : [letterhead].
  • Girls watching cars cruise and pick up teenage prostitutes representing today's behaviour and tomorrow's results represented by a girl dying of AIDS in bed and a pregnant teenager; a warning about safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A personified condom waving and explaining in smaller illustrations how to reduce the risk of AIDS; a safe-sex advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India and the Manipur Voluntary Health Association. Colour lithograph by Ramesh Sukumar, ca. 1995.
  • A drop of red blood amidst a black cross, star and crescent; set against a splattered pink and black background with a message to donate blood not shed it; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India and the Manipur Voluntary Health Association. Colour lithograph by Ramesh Sukumar for VHAI, ca. 1995.
  • Instructions on how to sterilize needles and syringes and a warning about the dangers of needle-sharing and AIDS within the silhouette form of 2 figures in black and grey; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India and the Manipur Voluntary Health Association. Colour lithograph by Ramesh Sukumar for VHAI, ca. 1995.
  • An HIV virus cell representing an information sheet on AIDS and how it is spread with numerous smaller illustrations and text; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India. Colour lithograph by Stephen Marazzi, ca. 1995.
  • Six coloured condoms with faces drawn on them representing the centrepiece of a calendar for the year 1994 by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph by Kaido Haagen and Iris Kottri, 1994.
  • A figure with condoms as antennae and a condom hanging between his legs with a three eyed figure beyond; an advertisement in Estonian and Russian by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph by Willem Loigom and HR & Co, ca. 1995.
  • Pastel-coloured figures float amidst leaf shapes against a backdrop of bullet point text describing the United Nations Principles of HIV infection; an advertisement by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph, 1994.
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