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Air of threat

Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.

  • Book extract

Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs

In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.

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A reflection on art in a mental hospital

Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.

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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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  • Milking a cow: flooding in transparent liner
  • Milking a cow: teat in transparent shell
  • The celestial planisphere or transparent star director.
  • 3D depth-coloured transparent mouse mammary gland
  • Transparent solar system, displaying the planets with their orbits, as known at the present day.
  • Astronomical lecture on the new dioastrodoxon, or, grand transparent orrery : twenty-one feet in diameter.
  • Crystal transparent jam pot covers with wax tissues, title labels and recipe slips : 2 lb. size.
  • Crystal transparent jam pot covers with wax tissues, title labels and recipe slips : 2 lb. size.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
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