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Dating on dopamine

Drug treatment for Parkinson’s can come with an unwanted side serving of compulsive behaviour, as Pete Langman discovered. Read about his dating journey in a dopamine cloud.

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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle

Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.

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Shakespeare and the four humours

Blood. Phlegm. Black bile. Yellow bile. The theory of the four humours informed many of Shakespeare's best-known characters, including the phlegmatic Falstaff.

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Lying low for lockdown and beyond

For Liz Carr the chances of catching Covid-19 are the same as for anyone else, but as a Disabled person she's at much greater risk of not getting the treatment she needs if she falls ill.

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  • The Rake's Progress: Drinking and gambling.
  • Medusa presiding over groups of satyrs who are gambling; representing gambling or gaming as a passion. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • A roulette wheel and other forms of gambling among Chinese in the Netherlands; advertising the Chinese gambling helpline. Colour lithograph for Trimbos-instituut and GGZ Nederland, 2001.
  • Men gambling in a casino or gaming club. Aquatint, ca. 181-.
  • Two episodes about Mr. Muff losing money gambling at the races. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • Volidan 21 the oral contraceptive with really low and predictable oestrogenic activity : gambling and the British.
  • Volidan 21 the oral contraceptive with really low and predictable oestrogenic activity : gambling and the British.
  • Many figures including a woman identified as Venus gambling with Cupid, evidence of torture and tumult. Engraving.
  • British politicians gambling at Ascot. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 14 June 1884.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
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