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Talent, tech and visual art

Jamie Hale finds a combination of talent and technology are crucial when it comes to creating great visual art, but how do you keep working when your circumstances are in constant flux?

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Autism assessments and me

When, as an adult, Mayanne Soret decided to get a formal diagnosis of her autism, she found that the series of assessments had a dishearteningly negative focus, seeming to frame her as a problem.

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Theriac: An ancient brand?

The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.

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When a private pee is a public disgrace

The free pee is getting rarer. And the lack of suitably equipped disabled toilets is condemning people to lives cloistered away in their own homes. Discover how toilet access for all is part of an equal society.

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  • On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye : with a preliminary essay on physiological dioptrics / by F.C. Donders ; translated from the author's manuscript by William Daniel Moore.
  • On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye : with a preliminary essay on physiological dioptrics / by F.C. Donders ; translated from the author's manuscript by William Daniel Moore.
  • Just Christian von Loder. Engraving by J.G. Müller after F. Tischbein, 1801.
  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope constructed by Howard Grubb at Rathmines, Dublin. Wood engraving by W.J. Mosses, 1881, after F.W. after G. Browning.
  • Charcot Leyden crystals from an endobronchial lesion
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