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Defying deafness through music

Did you know that Beethoven’s profession meant he was ashamed to admit to being deaf? Find out how similar prejudices persist today and how our writer is helping to break them down.

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How music opens the doors of memory and the mind

People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?

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How we bury our children

Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.

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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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  • A country fair: itinerant entertainers act on a stage, women and children look at a peep show, others dance to music provided by a man playing a hurdy-gurdy and boy playing a small trumpet. Engraving by C.N. Cochin the younger, 1740, after F. Boucher.
  • A variety of Native Indian accessories and musical instruments with a warning to get children hooked on cultural pastimes rather than let them get involved in teen pregnancy, drugs and alcohol that can lead to AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases; advertisement by the Seattle Indian Health Board. Colour lithograph by Stewart Tilger and Christine P. Salvador.
  • A group of children holding song books and singing. Process print after Marie Seymour Lucas.
  • The world of If : the 5th Ivory Castle fairy book / D. & W. Gibbs Ltd.
  • A mother looks forlornly at her new baby in her husband's arms: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Family Planning Council of Nigeria , ca. 1993.
  • Gymnastic exercises for 7-8 year olds in China. Colour lithograph, 1973.
  • A man discusses the care of his 3 children below with his brother: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Family Planning Council of Nigeria , ca. 1993.
  • A mother looks forlornly at her new baby in her husband's arms: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Family Planning Council of Nigeria , ca. 1993.
  • Charlie Bray in character as a Dutch girl. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Charlie Bray in character as a Dutch girl. Photographic postcard, 191-.
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