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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.
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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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Why the scariest monsters look almost human
Something is wrong, but you’re not sure what. Amy Jones explores exactly why your worst nightmare is the monster that’s almost human.
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Making sense of senses lost
In rapid succession, Steve Barker suddenly lost sight and hearing on his left side. The effect on how he perceives the world has been profound.
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An army officer lectures his bored class on the effects of gas, one student is made to wear a gas mask while another wickedly tries to set light to it. Pen and ink drawing by H. Bury, 1916.
Bury, Horace.Date: 1916Reference: 24074i- Digital Images
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First World War German gas mask with containe
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An ex-soldier entering a dentist's surgery with his gas mask on - for his operation with gas. Line block after C. Graves, 1934.
Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom), 1856-1944.Date: 1934Reference: 15524i- Digital Images
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Six soldiers demonstrating putting a gas mask on over the face. "To show stages in adjustment of a SBR".