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Mapping the body

These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.

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Sex work through the ages

Discover how societies, from antiquity to the present day, have chosen to regard and treat sex workers. While some communities work towards acceptance, others retain harsh judgement.

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The neuroscience of how we navigate

Christopher Kemp describes the mysterious case of Amanda Eller, a hiker who got lost in the woods. How can someone take a few steps off a well-marked trail and completely disappear?

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Epidemic threats and racist legacies

Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.

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  • Thucydides, Maps and Plans illustrative of
  • Thucydides, Maps and Plans illustrative of
  • Maps of the French countryside with railway lines and trains. Coloured engraving.
  • Techniques for engraving maps (top), and musical notation (below): tools shown between. Engraving by Defehrt (maps) and Madame de Lusse (music).
  • Maps showing the Bristol area. 1. The basin of the Bristol Avon. 2. Distribution of lower Palaeolithic discoveries around Bristol. 3. Relation of Bristol avon to the rest of the British Isles.
  • The physical atlas; a series of maps illustrating the geographical distribution of natural phenomena / [Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus].
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including Napoleon III looking at maps, a shipwreck, an assassination [?], and a battle in Africa. Coloured lithograph, [c.1858?].
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including Napoleon III looking at maps, a shipwreck, an assassination [?], and a battle in Africa. Coloured lithograph, [c.1858?].
  • A blue sun with green rays against a block of yellow, pink and blue representing an advertisement for MAPS, a Multifaith AIDS Project of Seattle. Colour lithograph.
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