Stories
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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies
The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
- Photo story
‘My Hair Is Not…’
Eight Black people talk about their relationship with their hair – their hairstyle history, their experiences, and how they decided to have natural hair.
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Address of Thomas Bell, Esq., V.P.R.S., etc., the President, read at the anniversary meeting of the Linnean Society on Wednesday, May 24, 1854 : together with obituary notices of deceased members.
Bell, Thomas, 1792-1880.Date: 1854- Books
Worlds of natural history / edited by H.A. Curry, N. Jardine, J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary.
Date: 2018- Books
Science ink : tattoos of the science obsessed / Carl Zimmer ; foreword by Mary Roach.
Zimmer, Carl, 1966-Date: [2011], ©2011- Videos
Poor us. : an animated history of poverty.
Date: 2012- Books
The risks of medical innovation : risk perception and assessment in historical context / edited by Thomas Schlich and Ulrich Tröhler.
Date: 2006