Stories
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Rejecting shame and a decade of change
Jess Thom spent years trying to ignore and suppress the tics of Tourette’s syndrome. Read what happened when she decided to celebrate them instead.
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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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Bringing biotech to the people
Amateur scientists have inspired all kinds of frightening scenarios, from Frankenstein’s monster to ‘The Fly’ and ‘Breaking Bad’. But it can be a force for good. Today’s DIYbio enthusiasts are having fun – and even making lucrative breakthrough discoveries.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Campaigning for Choice": FPA report on effective advertising for birth control
Date: 1975-1978Reference: SA/FPA/C/B/6/9Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Project planning and evaluation documents
Date: 2008-2010Reference: WT/D/6/6/1Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Choosing to change : extending access, choice and mobility in higher education ; the report of the HEQC CAT Development Project.
Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
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Essays, relating to the conduct of life: upon the following subjects. Viz. On self government in general. Choice of a Wife. Choice of a Husband. Circumstances of Husband and Wife. Education of Children. The Station of Life eligible. The Friend and Pretended Friend. The Honest Man. Women and their Vices, with Instructions for their Behaviour. Beauty, and Beauties of the Mind. Single Life and Matrimony. Fortune and Chance. Prosperity and Adversity. Hope and Fear. Courage and Cowardise. Passion, and its Consequences. Slander, and its chief Causes. Thought. Flattery, and its Designs. Gentility. Virtue. The Man truly Great.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: [1717]- Archives and manuscripts
Sex education in schools project summary
Health Education CouncilDate: 1995Reference: SA/HEC/B/22/13Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority