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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test

The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.

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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’

All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.

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It’s getting mighty crowded

Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.

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People against pollution

Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.

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  • Graph of copper availabilities (for sheep)
  • Paediatric finger diagnosis chart: 'Water Graph' vein pattern
  • Graph showing fall in death rate from tuberculosis, Glasgow 1871-1923
  • Paediatric finger diagnosis chart: Yi graph vein pattern
  • Mathematics: a graph-plotting machine. Engraving by Benard.
  • SigmaPlot windows scientific graph system : summary of features / Jandel Scientific.
  • Economics: a graph comparing armed forces and gross national product and debt for various European countries. Coloured engraving, [c.1840].
  • Human skulls of different racial types: eleven figures also including the skull of an ape, and a graph demonstrating different angles. Engraving.
  • The breath of life, or, Mal-respiration : and its effects upon the enjoyments & life of man (manu-graph) / by Geo. Catlin.
  • The breath of life, or, Mal-respiration : and its effects upon the enjoyments & life of man (manu-graph) / by Geo. Catlin.
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