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Conserving Audrey

Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.

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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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The secrets your teeth hold

Discover how innocuous-looking human teeth hold a wealth of hidden information about our diet, health and evolution.

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Can isolation lead to manipulation?

Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.

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  • Milking cows: testing temperature of water
  • Midwife checking the water temperature of the birthing pool
  • Diagram of Simple and Compound Atmosphere taken fron "An Experimental Essay on the Consitution of mixed Gases; on the force of steam or Vapour from Water and other Liquids in different temperatures, both in Torricellion Vacuum and in Air; on Evaporation; and on the Expansion of Gases by Heat." by Mr John Dalton
  • Birth of the Virgin by Holbein
  • Lying-in room, by Master of the North Tirol, 15thC
  • Birth of the Virgin by Zeitblom
  • Child Welfare, incubator
  • Birth of the Virgin, by Von Mekenem
  • Cleanliness in the washing up of dishes and leaving them to dry on a rack. Lithograph, 196-.
  • Leprosy: sensory testing
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