Stories
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- Article
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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The relationship between science and art
Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.
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- Book extract
The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
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Laughing gas and the scientific pursuit of the sublime
Part science lecture. part public spectacle, thanks to chemist Humphry Davy the 19th-century craze for inhaling nitrous oxide rapidly spread from the science laboratory to fashionable salons and homes of the day, and onto the popular stage.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Essay on Air Raid Precautions
Date: Mid 20th CenturyReference: HALDANE/2/1/3/95Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Receuil de plusieurs secrets et remèdes éprouvés
Date: Late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.4140- Archives and manuscripts
British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS): archives
British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS)Date: Late 19th century-2018Reference: SA/BSR- Archives and manuscripts
Manuscript volume of medical and domestic science recipes and formulae
Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.9288- Books
Victorian scientific naturalism : community, identity, continuity / edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman.
Date: [2014]