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Vision and the Artist

Visual disorders affect the way we see, and therefore would...

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century...

Sleep and Dreams

Why do humans sleep?  How much do we need to...

Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to be avoided

How closely are we related to each other, and how...

The Governance and Voting System of the City of London

The unique governance and voting system of the Square Mile...

Mind over matter

Charlatan "cures" and "alternative" treatments are widespread and popular.  Despite...

Current Trends in European and Middle Eastern Mortality

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all...

Genius or Madness?

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin...

Policy making through a public prism

Tony Stoller, Chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the...