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A history of mindfulness

Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.

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Confronting male stereotypes in the classroom

Sometimes men just don’t like football. Writer and teacher Okechukwu Nzelu decides to be himself in front of his students.

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Yoga adapts to time and place

A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.

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How architecture builds a profession of stress

Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.

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  • Achillea millefolium L. Asteraceae. Yarrow or sneezewort, the latter because ground up it made a snuff to induce sneezing. Evergreen, herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Europe, Asia and North America. Dioscorides calls it Achilles’ woundwort, sideritis, writing that the ground-up foliage closes bleeding wounds, relieves inflammation and stops uterine bleeding. Gerard (1633) says that put up one’s nose it causes a nosebleed and so stops migraines. Named for the Greek warrior, Achilles, who used this plant for healing wounds – having been taught its properties by his teacher, Chiron the centaur. Millefolium because of the thousands of fronds that make up the leaf, and which, when applied to a bleeding wound, facilitate coagulation by platelets. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • Church of St. Mildred, Whippingham: Winchester Diocesan Training College floor plan. Wood engraving by O. Jewitt, 1863.
  • A portrait of an Indian couple torn in two with the warning 'they could have saved their marriage'; an anti-AIDS advertisement for Sex Education Counselling Research Thearpy Training issued by the Family Planning Association of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A red male and female sign bearing Hindi lettering on blue against a black background representing word 'AIDS' with a message about the need to pratice safer sex; an advertisement issued by the Family Planning Association of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
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