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How to play on the District line between Stepney Green and Embankment

From the crossword to the smartphone, distractions for the commuter relieve the tedium of crowded, dull journeys. Game designer Holly Gramazio delves into the world of games for trains.

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How to play in secret

In secret games the strangers around you are playing too. They just don’t know it. Read on for some great ideas for undercover fun at work, school – or almost anywhere.

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Chemotherapy-day drawings

Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.

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Sharing Nature: Parks for people

Paula Broom’s photograph of Sydney’s Centennial Park shows the complexity and joy we find in urban greenery.

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  • A purple grid, with a denser red grid superimposed. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1970.
  • Radiograph: poor quality taken without grid
  • Radiography apparatus: moving grid & tray
  • Radiograph: focused grid used upside down.
  • Radiograph taken with grid wrong way up
  • Radiograph: good quality taken with a grid
  • Printed article in Chinese on pink bordered grid.
  • A red grid of diagonal lines. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1970.
  • A pair of eyes above a purple grid. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A pair of eyes above a purple grid. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
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