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The building as tool of healing

When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.

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Why we still need quarantine

For years, quarantine has been an important measure to curb the spread of infection and avert further deaths. Discover the way it has been used in the past and why it is still necessary today.

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The trouble with too many things

Hoarding is a slippery subject – difficult to define or diagnose. As she tries to explain the intensity of her grandma’s collecting, Georgie Evans finds the words and tools at her disposal aren’t all that helpful.

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Exceptional talent and the trouble with IQ tests

Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?

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  • Massage tool, made of ivory.
  • Massage tool, made of ivory.
  • Massage tool, made of rubber and bakelite
  • Massage tool, made of rubber and bakelite
  • Diagrams of Frankish & Saxon remains, namely tool heads
  • A snake being put in a sack by a man using a long tool, Australia. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • A woman holding a tool to grind (?) which is tied to a rope. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The manufacture of Magdalenian bone needles. Showing the bone from which splinters have been taken, gravers, hone, toothed tool for rounding splinters, and finished needles.
  • A young man holding rosary beads in one hand and a tool of his trade in the other. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A man in a workshop with a hand over his eyes in anguish while dropping a sharp tool with the other hand; two details of eyes appear in the top corners. Line engraving.
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