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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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How online dating can make us lonely

The packed diary of an internet dater doesn’t necessarily denote fun, companionship and love. Find out what Christina Patterson learned on her internet-dating odyssey.

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The making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

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How not to play

Here are seven ways to sidestep doing as you’re told in a game. But strangely, they seem to be as much a part of playing as the game itself.

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  • [Newspaper cutting, "Giants" (1842?) about the possibility of an ancient race of giants].
  • Zeus fighting the Giants. Photograpic postcard, 191-.
  • Zeus fighting the Giants. Photograpic postcard, 191-.
  • The giants wedding.
  • The giants wedding.
  • Types of "Indian Dwarfism"- giants and dwarfs, ascending line
  • Two Kashmir giants, and the traveller James Ricalton. Halftone after a photograph, 1903.
  • The fall of the giants. Colour woodcut by B. Coriolano, 1638, after G. Reni.
  • The fall of the giants. Colour woodcut by B. Coriolano, 1638, after G. Reni.
  • Essay on monsters, dwarfs, and giants : from Busson, Dubenton, Goldsmith, and other natural historians.
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The Passion Flower Blooms

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