Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
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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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Mind, society, and behavior.
Date: [2015]
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A monkey wearing human clothes. Gouache, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 727235iPart of: Japanese people, plants, animals etc. Album of drawings and paintings, 18--.
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A chicken family in traditional Japanese dress entertain a rabbit in western dress: new year ornaments hang from the top left. Colour woodcut, 1870s.
Date: [between 1870 and 1879]Reference: 37798i
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A rabbit mother, having given birth to twins, lies in bed; a hen midwife presents her with the second baby, while a fish (?) looks on. Colour woodcut, ca. 1870.
Date: 1870?]Reference: 564959i
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Interior of a dentist's surgery with animal participants. Reproduction of a coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 11750i