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Domestic titans
Feeling trapped by the idea that an impenetrable carapace of space trash could surround the planet, Elvia Wilk turned to thoughts of the new worlds still to be revealed here on Earth.
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The ugly truth about fast fashion
Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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Decorations for parks and gardens. Designed for gates, garden seats, alcoves, temples, baths, entrance gates, lodges, facades, prospects for towers Cattle Sheds, Ruins, Bridges, Greenhouses, &c. &c. also A Hot House & Hot Wall: with plans & scales on 55 p
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Botanic Gardens, Oxford: plan of the gardens with details of the gateway and greenhouses. Etching, 1707, after D. Loggan.
Loggan, David, 1635-1700?Date: 1707Reference: 21214i- Books
Warming to the issue : Australian science comes to grips with greenhouse / National Greenhouse Advisory Committee ; [written by Robert Lehane].
Lehane, Robert.Date: 1995- Pictures
Botanic Gardens, Oxford: showing the fountain and greenhouses, with a glimpse of Magdalen College behind. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1836, after F. Mackenzie.
Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 1788-1854.Date: 1 March 1836Reference: 21218i- Pictures
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Botanic Garden, Oxford: panoramic view of the greenhouses with a small ornamental detail of the gates and plans. Line engraving by J. Skelton, 1820, after B. Green.
Green, Benjamin, 1739-1798.Date: 1 August 1820Reference: 21220i