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When contemporary dance meets dyspraxia

Discover why a rare neurological condition meant an enthusiastic club-night dancer struggled with formal dance classes. And how persisting with those classes paid off.

  • Prose poem

Intrinsic Evanescence

Will Alexander on the poetry of the rarefied atmosphere of a friendship.

  • Article

The Key to Memory: Write it down

Nick Dent explores what the Library of the Human Genome can tell us about how and why we remember.

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The Key to Memory: Follow your nose

Elissavet Ntoulia explores what a pair of pomanders can tell us about how and why we remember.

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  • A woman sits spinning at a spinning wheel. Wood engraving.
  • Cotton spinning couple. Watercolour drawing.
  • Silk-spinning organs of a spider
  • Textiles: a silk-spinning frame. Engraving.
  • An optical spinning toy. Coloured lithograph.
  • Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: carding and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: sorting and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • A lesson in spinning string, Central Australia.
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