Stories
- Article
A body apart from the head
We look back at the importance of the head, from how it’s influenced our language to the bold political statement of having it removed.
- Article
Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
- Article
The soul in the stomach
A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.
![Glass: men at work inside a plate glass factory. Engraving, possibly by C. Grignion [?], 1747.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0024057/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Pictures
Some tribespeople standing by a hut, holding bows and arrows. Photograph, ca.1900, by A. Plate.
Reference: 549149i- Pictures
Men standing by a tree in Ceylon, holding bows and arrows. Photograph, ca.1900, by A. Plate.
Plate, A. W. A.Reference: 549141i- Pictures
Men standing by a tree in Ceylon, holding bows and arrows. Photograph, ca. 1900, by A. Plate.
Reference: 549150i- Pictures
Veddas men posing with bows and arrows in the forest.
A.W.A. Plâté & Co.Date: [1900]Reference: 3307359iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Film
Inoculating a plate.
Date: 1951