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The first seizure

Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.

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Doris Day blows against

Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.

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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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Diagnosed bipolar, prescribed lithium

In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.

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  • A raven (Corvus corax). Coloured engraving by Whimper.
  • A swift (Cypselus apus). Coloured engraving by Whimper.
  • A crossbill (Loxia curvirostra). Coloured engraving by Whimper.
  • An osprey (Pandion haliaetus). Coloured engraving by Whimper.
  • A grey wagtail (Motacilla melanope). Coloured engraving by Whimper.
  • The snowy owl (Nyctea scandiaca). Coloured engraving by Whimper.
  • A bird: a ring-ouzel (Turdus torquatus). Coloured engraving by Whimper.
  • Two tapirs roaming the woods. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • A swan on a lake. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • John Tradescant II. Wood engraving by E. Whimper after W. Hollar, 1656.
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