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The shifting shape of language

Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.

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The healing power of breathing

The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.

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The hell of hay fever

After years suffering in silence, David Jesudason finds speaking out about his pollen allergy gives him hope for a future where his hay-fever symptoms are under control.

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The art of scientific glassblowing

Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.

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  • Four different paces and figures of the old school of horsemanship and riding, including the passage, amble and galop. Etching by C. Parrocel.
  • Part of the Old Schools, Oxford. Wood engraving.
  • King's College Chapel, east range of the Old Schools and Senate house, Cambridge. Line engraving.
  • King's College Chapel, east range of the Old Schools, and the Senate House, Cambridge. Line engraving by Neele & Son.
  • Salvia nemorosa L. Lamiaceae Woodland sage. Balkan clary Distribution: Central Europe, Western Asia. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Linnaeus (1782) also: 'Timor, Languor, Leucorrhoea, Senectus [fear, tiredness, white vaginal discharge, old age]'. Its health giving and immortality conferring properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The sun painted in red and cerise circles. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • The sun painted in red and cerise circles. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • An actor performing in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • An actor performing in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • W. Harvey, King's School Canterbury.
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