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  • Book extract

The meaning of happiness

What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.

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Trans masculinity on the record

Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.

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Getting around the rules of sex education

What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?

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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry

Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.

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  • A patient wonders where he should 'cough up' (his spittle); the doctor responds that if he means money, then into his hand. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Rules for preserving the health of the aged by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, etc. &c. And also hints for the alleviation and prevention of those disorders by which old age is usually assailed, without the aid of medicine / Translated from the French. Of J.A. Salgues.
  • SNAPfax 1997 1998 : student Edinburgh : over 800 free drinks : be here now : Woolpack ; d'ya know what I mean? / SNAPfax.
  • SNAPfax 1997 1998 : student Edinburgh : over 800 free drinks : be here now : Woolpack ; d'ya know what I mean? / SNAPfax.
  • SNAPfax 1997 1998 : student Edinburgh : over 800 free drinks : be here now : Woolpack ; d'ya know what I mean? / SNAPfax.
  • SNAPfax 1997 1998 : student Edinburgh : over 800 free drinks : be here now : Woolpack ; d'ya know what I mean? / SNAPfax.
  • SNAPfax 1997 1998 : student Edinburgh : over 800 free drinks : be here now : Woolpack ; d'ya know what I mean? / SNAPfax.
  • SNAPfax 1997 1998 : student Edinburgh : over 800 free drinks : be here now : Woolpack ; d'ya know what I mean? / SNAPfax.
  • SNAPfax 1997 1998 : student Edinburgh : over 800 free drinks : be here now : Woolpack ; d'ya know what I mean? / SNAPfax.
  • SNAPfax 1997 1998 : student Edinburgh : over 800 free drinks : be here now : Woolpack ; d'ya know what I mean? / SNAPfax.
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