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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
| Nazlin BhimaniGergo Varga
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
| Owen GowerSteven Pocock
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
| Cal Flyn
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
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How music opens the doors of memory and the mind
| Philip Ball
People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?