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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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The Victorian perspective on spectacles

When spectacles began to proliferate in the 19th century, some commentators were alarmed. Gemma Almond reveals how the Victorians came to embrace eyewear.

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My important, ridiculous nose

The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.

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  • Glass cylinder containing Mezuzah.
  • Case containing leather rimmed metal bridged glasses.
  • A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • Original apparatus belonging to Marie Curie, glass beaker that contained the first solution of radium salts (note discolourisation of glass)
  • Johann Georg Roederer, professor of anatomy and midwifery at Goettingen, with left hand on glass jar containing foetus. Engraving by J.P. Kaltenhofer after himself.
  • Johann Georg Roederer, professor of anatomy and midwifery at Goettingen, with left hand on glass jar containing foetus. Engraving by J.P. Kaltenhofer after himself.
  • King George III analysing the residue from a large glass retort containing a small figure; representing the English view of Napoleon. Coloured aquatint by T. West, 1803.
  • A pixelated square figure with glasses, arms, legs and trainers with a speech bubble containing the words 'Know AIDS'; an advertisement for AIDS facts by the New York State Department of Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Liebig's beef wine : life giving, sustaining, comforting : contains extract of meat, extract of malt and old port wine : a small wine-glassful to be taken twice or three times a day / prepared by S. Stephens.
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