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People against pollution

Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.

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Tripping for spiritualism and science

Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.

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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science

From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.

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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science

The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.

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  • Curing ceremony among the Iroquois people. From photographs by the Buffalo Museum of Science, U.S.A.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: people looking at rocks in glass cases in college museum. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day / edited by H.D. Traill and J.S. Mann.
  • Sarawak: four Dayak men in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • Take a step towards compassionate living / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Take a step towards compassionate living / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Take a step towards compassionate living / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Take a step towards compassionate living / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
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