Stories
- Article
Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
- Article
The soul in the stomach
A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.
- Article
Dress and the magic of touch
Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Books
Empire of the senses : the sensual culture reader / edited by David Howes.
Date: 2005
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Brain and sensory organs: ten figures showing dissections of the brain, eye and ear. Line engraving by A. Bell, 1771/1783.
Bell, Andrew, 1726-1809.Date: [1771/1783?]Reference: 562279i
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Brain and sensory organs: ten figures showing dissections of the brain, eye and ear. Line engraving by A. Bell, 1788/1797.
Bell, Andrew, 1726-1809.Date: [1788/1797]Reference: 562371i
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Neuromast organ, lateral line system
Prof. Andrew Forge
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SEM Organ of Corti
Prof. Andrew Forge