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Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
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From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...
The Connected Brain: Network and Communication The brain is mostly organised into small modular regions connected...
Lord Kelvin and the French 'F' Word: The Greatest Victorian Scientist? Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the...
The New Art of Central Banking Following the Long Expansion and the global financial crisis, money...
Science-Based Targets, Greenwashing and Brownscraping: Net Zero in the Private Sector Many companies are now required to have a “Science-based Target”...