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Another way to listen

Background noise is something we often try to ignore. Adjoa Wiredu explores what happens if we intentionally choose to tune in.

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‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy

How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.

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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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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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  • Two performers dressed as bellhops in a dance-hold, pose with a pianist (Ringham), who is wearing a top hat. Photographic postcard by Dobson, 19--.
  • Two performers dressed as bellhops in a dance-hold, pose with a pianist (Ringham), who is wearing a top hat. Photographic postcard by Dobson, 19--.
  • [Undated yellow handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • [Undated white handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • [Undated yellow handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • [Undated white handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • [Undated mottled blue-grey handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • [Undated mottled blue-grey handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • The evolution of a fox riding a goose into a writer seated at his typewriter (or a pianist?) - which in turn evolves into accordion, bellows, money-bag, and handcuffs; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • A woman in a red dress with puffed sleeves sings beside a pianist representing an advertisement for a benefit concert entitled 'Artists against AIDS. The Big Aria' to support Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe at the Schubertsaal Wiener concert hall in Vienna on 24 October 1987. Colour lithograph.
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