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How music opens the doors of memory and the mind

People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?

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The original drama of operating theatres

Medicine as ‘theatre’ began in the 16th century, when paying audiences enjoyed candlelight, live music – and a cadaver being dissected in front of them, all the in name of education.

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Why zombies can’t help coming back

Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.

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Leaving Mexico and finding refuge in hope

In Mexico, violence of all kinds – organised, street, domestic – is accepted as normal. From the UK, Laura Morales speaks out and fights to help those suffering back home.

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  • Tricity Bendix supercool doors.
  • Tricity Bendix supercool doors.
  • Left, an "iron maiden" with its doors secured; middle, a blindfolded prisoner is forced to kneel down before the "iron maiden" in a dungeon; right, an "iron maiden" with its doors open. Etching.
  • Death knocks at the doors of both the poor and the rich. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the entrance to the hall, with elaborate carving above the doors. Engraving, 1816.
  • Royal College of Physicians: the courtyard, with lettering identifying the various doors. Engraving by D. Loggan after himself, 1677.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the entrance to the hall, with elaborate heraldic carving above the doors. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd, 1830.
  • Harpies try to keep open the doors of the temple of Janus, but they are clubbed by Hercules. Mezzotint by A. Blooteling after G. Lairesse.
  • Harpies try to keep open the doors of the temple of Janus, but they are clubbed by Hercules. Coloured mezzotint by A. Blooteling after G. de Lairesse.
  • Annual meeting at St. James' Banqueting Room, Regent Street, London, W. (ten doors above Swan and Edgar's) on Thursday, April 28th, at 3 p.m. ...
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