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Living in limbo when a loved one is missing

When someone goes missing, loved ones are thrown into a state akin to constant grieving; waiting for news, living in hope. Novelist Bev Thomas describes how they try to cope and carry on.

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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life

Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.

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Surviving the storm of postnatal depression

Emma Jane Unsworth lays bare the despair of postnatal depression and shares her route to recovery.

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Father of the house

Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.

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  • Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), physician and social reformer. Oil painting by John Burton and Sons.
  • Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), physician and social reformer. Oil painting by John Burton and Sons.
  • Portraits of Thomas Harvey and his 7 sons. The group of portraits set in plaster as they appeared at Rolls Park Essex. From an old photograph in the Library of the Royal College of Physicians.
  • The antique statue of Laocoön: Lord Melbourne as Laocoön, Lord John Russell and Thomas Spring-Rice as the two sons, entwined by two serpents with the faces of Lords Brougham and Lyndhurst. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • Invalid spinal carriage made by McKenzie and Sons.
  • Queen Victoria visiting soldiers wounded in the Crimean war. Mezzotint by T.O. Barlow, 1859, after Jerry Barrett.
  • Queen Victoria visiting soldiers wounded in the Crimean war. Mezzotint by T.O. Barlow, 1859, after Jerry Barrett.
  • Medical Glass Warehouse : 46 Farringdon Street, London ... 18 : bought of Thos. Brown & Sons.
  • Medical Glass Warehouse : 46 Farringdon Street, London ... 18 : bought of Thos. Brown & Sons.
  • Mausoleum of Makhdam Shah Daulut at Maner, Bihar. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1796.
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