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Bowel Cancer and Digestive Cancers
Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in both men and women. A substantial proportion of bowel cancer is preventable. The outlook depends stro…
5 years, 4 months ago
Who Investigates Sudden Death?
How do we investigate violent and unexpected deaths at the inquest? Who investigates?
When do deaths get referred to the Coroner? Are inquests non-ad…
5 years, 5 months ago
England's Unwanted Reformation
Most English people initially saw the Reformation as an unexpected catastrophe, wrenching their religious lives out of shape, and stripping their com…
5 years, 5 months ago
Seeing China Through Its Media
China’s media provide a window into the Chinese mind, as the country asserts itself in the world as a great power. What do Chinese people think is th…
5 years, 5 months ago
Making a Monkey out of Darwin
When Darwin finally published the On the Origin of Species, he tried to avoid controversy by ignoring human origins. Yet evolution was soon being att…
5 years, 5 months ago
Russian Piano Masterpieces: Rachmaninov
There is no need to introduce Rachmaninov, considered by many to be the greatest composer-pianist in history and the creator of several famous items …
5 years, 5 months ago
Plato
Plato the Athenian was the philosopher who founded the Academy and whose brilliant writings are the foundation texts of the entire western philosophi…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Changing Geography of Ill Health
Ill health has always been concentrated in particular places; tackling these pockets of ill health is an essential role for public health. These may …
5 years, 5 months ago
Data: The Past, the Present and the Future
Digital technology from the early 1990s onwards produced an exponential increase in astronomical data. Within our lifetime, the entirety of the visib…
5 years, 5 months ago
Understanding the Universe with AI
Digital technology from the early 1990s onwards produced an exponential increase in astronomical data. Within our lifetime, the entirety of the visib…
5 years, 5 months ago