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Computer Bugs in Hospitals: A New Killer
Computer bugs, reported in heart pacemaker software and many other devices, are but one example of the risks that IT systems can create for patients.…
8 years ago
Votes for Women: A Centenary Celebration
The campaign to achieve the parliamentary vote for women (6 February 1918) took 52 years, from 1866 to 1918. During that time women and their male su…
8 years ago
Vulnerable Clients and The Family Justice System
Do the courts respect diversity or punish it when it comes to parenthood? What disabilities does it encounter? How can the learning disabled parent e…
8 years ago
The Fate of the October Revolution under Stalin
When Lenin died in 1924, he had effected a temporary stabilisation of the Soviet order. But many political, economic, social and international trends…
8 years ago
The High Energy Universe
View the sky through an x-ray telescope and the conception of the universe changes dramatically. Black holes are best seen in x-rays, because impingi…
8 years ago
The Labour Party
The Labour Party was formed in 1900 as a coalition between trade unions and socialist intellectuals with the aim of securing representation for the w…
8 years ago
The Housing Market
Housing represents the main asset class held by UK households and we shall try to understand why it is held as such a large share of assets. We shall…
8 years, 1 month ago
Here Comes The Sun: Sunshine and its Effects on Health, Sleep and Memory
Professor Steve Jones will consider sunshine and its effects on health, on sleep, on memory and more: and why today's twilight world of tablets …
8 years, 1 month ago
Shakespeare's Lovers
William Shakespeare made his name as a poet before he became famous as a playwright. His erotic poem Venus and Adonis was the most popular work of li…
8 years, 1 month ago
The Clockwork God: Isaac Newton and the Mechanical Universe
Isaac Newton saw his demonstration of the regularity of the universe as having great religious significance. Newton's ideas were initially seen …
8 years, 1 month ago