Stories
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Devilry and doom in 1666
Disastrous events and a significant combination of numbers signalled the end – or perhaps a new beginning – in 1666. But for some, this feverish period fuelled unprecedented inventiveness and development.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Searching for a place to call home
Wherever she’s lived, Tanya Perdikou has rarely felt at home, and numerous moves have perpetuated a sense of disconnection. But signs from nature offer powerful moments of connection.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
Catalogue
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The Portuguese discoveries and the science in Europe / text Henrique Leitão.
Leitão, Henrique, 1964-Date: 2009- Books
American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe / John Krige.
Krige, John.Date: [2006], ©2006- Books
Before Galileo : the birth of modern science in medieval Europe / John Freely.
Freely, John.Date: 2012- Books
Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945 / edited by Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans.
Date: [2013]- Books
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Wonder & science : imagining worlds in early modern Europe / Mary Baine Campbell.
Campbell, Mary B., 1954-Date: 2004, ©1999