Stories
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Why “crazy cat ladies” are healthier than you may think
Writer Erica Crompton ponders the reasons behind the misogynist “crazy cat lady” trope, and reclaims cat ownership as a positive way to help restore mental equilibrium.
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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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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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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.
Catalogue
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Guidelines on the care of laboratory animals and their use for scientific purposes : preprint. 1, Housing and care / issued by The Royal Society and Universities Federation for Animal Welfare.
Date: 1987- Archives and manuscripts
Animal Diseases and veterinary medicine
Date: 1960-1972Reference: SA/CMO/D/62Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Animal Diseases and veterinary medicine: rabies
Date: 1969-1971Reference: SA/CMO/D/63Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Books
Dogs : laboratory animal management / Committee on Dogs, Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
Date: 1994- Books
Animal health and housing / David Sainsbury with the assistance of Peter Sainsbury.
Sainsbury, David.Date: 1967