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Psychosis: Making and Inhabiting a Different Reality
One of the most mysterious experiences that we come across in psychiatry is 'Psychosis', which refers to a loss of contact with reality. It…
7 years, 2 months ago
Infections of the Lung and Heart
The lung has a large surface area, is open to the outside world and is the site for some of the most common serious infections, in particular pneumon…
7 years, 2 months ago
Computer Vision: Machines that See
Human vision seems so effortless: from a young age we see the world in high- definition colour. We can tell the difference between a cat and a hat, a…
7 years, 2 months ago
Maths in the City: Future Cities
The world's population is rapidly expanding and the majority of this population will live in large city conurbations. What will out future citie…
7 years, 2 months ago
Music Made of Listening: John Cage and 4'33"
Musicians make sounds - that much, you'd have thought, is obvious! Yet more than the sounds they make, it's the choices that musicians are …
7 years, 2 months ago
Bubbles, Manias and Market Failures: The Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Responses
Although financial bubbles are in some sense banal and a feature of financial capitalism, the seeds of the next bubble are often sown by regulatory r…
7 years, 2 months ago
The Varieties of Forgiveness
Forgiveness is often discussed as if it were a single, straightforward, phenomenon. The reality, however, is not so simple. For instance, we can iden…
7 years, 2 months ago
Gresham's World: Global Traffic, Trade, and the Metamorphosis of England
Global trade and traffic, many of Gresham's contemporaries would say, had altered sixteenth-century England beyond recognition, from its food, f…
7 years, 2 months ago
Ruskin at 200: The Art Critic as Word-Painter
Ruskin's Bicentenary on 8 February 2019 will be marked by an assessment of his achievement as an art critic. Then, with a close focus on four or…
7 years, 2 months ago
The 30th Anniversary of The Children Act 1989: Is It Still Fit For Purpose?
The Children Act 1989 embodied a change in philosophy by making the child's welfare the courts 'paramount' concern, moving away from t…
7 years, 3 months ago