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Enduring taboos and the future of skin bleaching

Many condemn skin bleaching in public while secretly lightening their own complexions. To break away from these taboos, we need honest information and open conversation.

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The spectacle maker

Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.

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The enduring myth of the mad genius

There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.

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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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  • Two women beckoning two musicians with a sitar (?) and a tabla (?). Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A sextet of women musicians performing before an audience of men. Wood engraving by Swain after G. Du Maurier, 1875.
  • Chinese festival of Tu-Ti (the Earth God): men and women are shown celebrating beside a shrine, accompanied by a group of musicians. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • A blind musician plays the koto to a gathering of women dressed in ornate kimonos. Coloured woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1849/1852.
  • Javanese dancers, with men on the left and women on the right, accompanied by a musician. Engraving by T. de Bry.
  • Constantinople: a girl playing the tehegour (guitar). Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
  • A Muslim dancing woman with two male musicians of south India. Gouache painting.
  • A girl plays the piano as a young woman accompanies her on the violin. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger frères, 1878, after F.-L. Lanfant.
  • (Left) an old woman sitting on a stool with a cat and warming her hands at a brazier; (right) an old man playing the hurdy-gurdy. Etching by E. Russell after J. Callot.
  • Holī festival. Watercolour by a Lucknow painter, 18--.
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