When the Renaissance physician Andreas Vesalius wrote his magnum opus on human anatomy in 1543, he transformed the study of medicine and revolutionised the way…
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‘Her waters break and the flood comes’: author behind new Jodie Comer film on motherhood in an apocalyptic London
At an unknown point in the near future, a woman is giving birth. As her contractions start, her home in London is flooded and, as…
View More ‘Her waters break and the flood comes’: author behind new Jodie Comer film on motherhood in an apocalyptic LondonI thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong
“Scientists say temperatures could rise by 6C by 2100 and call for action ahead of UN meeting in Paris” – Independent, 2015. A world that…
View More I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong‘The UK’s importing of food is a travesty’: farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks tells her own story
“I live with my husband, James, and we have four children – Molly, Bea, Isaac and Tom. There are also six sheep dogs, two ponies,…
View More ‘The UK’s importing of food is a travesty’: farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks tells her own storyCIA experiments, Mormon ravers and reformed racists: the untold history of MDMA
It was in 1975, when Carl Resnikoff and his girlfriend, Judith Gipson, took a bucolic ferry ride to Sausalito, a city located on the north…
View More CIA experiments, Mormon ravers and reformed racists: the untold history of MDMAWhy we need to respect Earth’s last great wilderness – the ocean
The real payoff from the Apollo missions had nothing to do with the moon. The prize was travelling far enough out into space to look…
View More Why we need to respect Earth’s last great wilderness – the ocean‘Mad and offensive’ texts shed light on the role played by minstrels in medieval society
From mocking kings and priests to encouraging audiences to get drunk, newly discovered texts at the National Library of Scotland have shed light on the…
View More ‘Mad and offensive’ texts shed light on the role played by minstrels in medieval societyThe big idea: should doctors be able to prescribe psychedelics?
So-called magic mushrooms (those that contain the molecule psilocybin) have been used by people around the world medicinally and ceremonially for a very long time.…
View More The big idea: should doctors be able to prescribe psychedelics?A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator
In 2002 Thomas Hertog received an email summoning him to the office of his mentor Stephen Hawking. The young researcher rushed to Hawking’s room at…
View More A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator‘It’s inequality that kills’: Naomi Klein on the future of climate justice
Naomi Klein published her first book on the climate crisis, This Changes Everything, almost a decade ago. She was one of the organisers and authors…
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