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“Disability is never an individual diagnosis”

As a 35-year-old man, I am sure that my fear of getting old is not uncommon. But for me, that fear goes deeper. I have spina bifida.

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How to cure the eco-anxious

Could community activism be the key to overcoming a fear of environmental collapse?

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Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration

Once upon a time, we all had a genius.

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The quest to breed gifted children

If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?

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  • Phrenological propensities: philoprogenitiveness, amativeness, self-love, individuality, number; illustrated by a huge and happy family, an apothecary making advances on his maidservant, a dandy admiring his reflection, Seurat the human skeleton, Toby the learned pig. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • Phrenological propensities: philoprogenitiveness, amativeness, self-love, individuality, number; illustrated by a huge and happy family, an apothecary making advances on his maidservant, a dandy admiring his reflection, Seurat the human skeleton, Toby the learned pig. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • Muscle biopsy showing individual fibre- TS
  • New Zealand: nine individual photos of Maori people. Albumen print.
  • New Zealand: nine individual photos of Maori people. Albumen print.
  • Diagram illustrating the composition of the idants out of individually different ids.
  • Individual bones of the human skull, with vertebrae. Etching by Martin after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • Characters individually linked to the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō highway. Colour woodcut, ca. 1850.
  • Martyr saints of the Augustinian order and representations of the individual orders. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • Martyr saints of the Augustinian order and representations of the individual orders. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
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