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Death researcher on pandemics and our fascination with dying

Death researcher on pandemics and our fascination with dying

25 March 2020

Pandemics of the past can teach us about the current one, says John Troyer, who studies how we use technology to alter the experience of death
Petri dish

Life and death caught in Petri dishes in a nod to the art of mortality

20 November 2019

This stunning image of Petri dishes full of butterfly wings, mushrooms, moss, glass and metal by Suzanne Anker is a modern reworking of paintings designed to remind us that life is vanity

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