Stories
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red
Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
Catalogue
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Enriching the earth : Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the transformation of world food production / Vaclav Smil.
Smil, Vaclav.Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
A brief history of the Harvard University cyclotrons / Richard Wilson.
Wilson, Richard, 1926-Date: 2004- Videos
The men who made us thin. Part 3.
Date: 2013- Books
Spoiled : the myth of milk as a superfood / Anne Mendelson.
Mendelson, AnneDate: [2023]- Videos
In two minds.
Date: 1991