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The eye of darshan

The Hindu concept of darshan means “divine revelation”, but it’s also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Adrian Plau explains how one image in a Panjabi manuscript relates to darshan, and why it’s so striking.

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The amateur silversmith

It started as hobby and soon became a passion. Geraldine Holden tells us where the art and science of silver unite.

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Why the truth is better than a happy ending

Caroline Butterwick often uses lived experience to inform her journalism, but she’s discovered a tension between the truth and stories that will sell.

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Breaking the rules of online dating

Artists are taking on the trolls of Tinder and the gremlins of Grindr to question the limits of online dating.

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  • Droplets showing surface tension
  • Milking machine: checking belt tension
  • In a world of worry..tension needs Tacitin.
  • In a world of worry..tension needs Tacitin.
  • Made specifically for the treatment of premenstual tension : 'Tensival'.
  • Made specifically for the treatment of premenstual tension : 'Tensival'.
  • Fick's Opthalmotonometer - instrument for determing the tension of the eyeball in cases of glaucoma.
  • Physical properties of Vincent's cryptotoxic bodies; measure of the superficial tension of horse serum after addition of various cryptotoxic bodies. Ink drawing.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a new type of loom being raised to working tension (top), details of the improvements (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Largactil : anaesthesia, psychiatry, nausea and vomiting, pain... : Phenergan promethazine, a phenothiazine derivative unique in its action : pruritis motion sickness, insomnia, drug sensitization, pre-operative tension, Parkinsonism / Poulenc Limited.
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