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Our endless quest for eternal youth

From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.

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To write in golden photographs

When Rachel Genn’s brother disappeared, a newspaper article led the family to his bedside. But the accident he’d barely survived was not to be the last tragedy in his life.

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How ritual creates meaning

In a world that encourages us to quash our sense of wonder, ritual can help push away apathy and nurture life-enhancing creativity and imagination.

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People against pollution

Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.

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  • Whaling: sailors arriving at Greenland to kill whales, their ships being out at sea. Aquatint by R. Dodd, 1789.
  • Pilot Whale Campaign.
  • Pilot Whale Campaign.
  • A whale. Coloured etching.
  • A whale. Engraving, ca 1793.
  • Greenland: above, indigenous fish including seals; centre, three different whales; below, whale fisher in their attire. Coloured etching.
  • Greenland: fishermen spearing whales from the safety of their boats; right, whale fisher in their attire. Coloured etching.
  • A narwhal, a common whale and a pike-headed whale. Etching by J Scott, ca 1812, after S Edwards.
  • Median Sagittal section of whales tooth
  • A narwhal and large sperm whale. Engraving.
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