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Fleeing fear, defying prejudice

As teenage refugee Sedra Al-Yousef grappled with rebuilding her life and education in another country, at the same time she used compassion and humanity to demolish populist anti-refugee myths.

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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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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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  • Professors at the Medical Faculty, University of Louvain: seven caricatures. Drawing (?) by G. Parsy, ca. 1900 (?).
  • King's College (London) Medical Faculty Rugby Team: group portrait of winning team with cup for the 1925-1926 season. Photograph, 1926.
  • Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1599-1850 : with a sketch of the rise and progress of the Glasgow Medical School and of the medical profession in the west of Scotland / [Alexander Duncan].
  • Aberdeen University: the Faculty of Medicine and medical class of 1897-1902, each in a roundel, head and shoulders. Process print, 1902.
  • Members of the medical faculty at Edinburgh University, gathered around a table. Lithograph by Schenck and McFarlane after L. Ghémar, ca.1850.
  • Members of the medical faculty at Edinburgh University, gathered around a table. Lithograph by Schenck and McFarlane after L. Ghémar, ca.1850.
  • M. DCC.LVIII. : Magistri, Jacobus-Benignus Winslow, Camillus Falconer, Franciscus Pousse ...
  • Rabbi Dr. Philipp and Reverend Lipschitz addressing a group of spectators, in the rain, adjacent to a memorial in Israel to Thomas Guy, founder of Guy's Hospital. Photograph.
  • Fifteen professors at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Colour process print after C. Miksch, 1923.
  • Surgeons and physicians of Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London, with views of the building. Colour lithograph by M. & N. Hanhart after Beynon & Company.
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