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Between sickness and health

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

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Finding out where my lithium comes from

The origins of the lithium Laura Grace Simpkins swallows daily are unclear. If we don’t know the provenance of our pills, how can we make informed decisions about them?

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The making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

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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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  • A giant, Mr. Robert Hales, named "The Yorkshire Giant," who will exhibit in Nottingham next week, is nearly eight feet in height, and weighs 462 lb.
  • Jesus appoints Peter as head of the church; he tells him "thou art Peter … And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven". Colour mixed media print by P.P.A. Robert and N. Le Sueur after Raphael.
  • A bomb-shell with a lighted fuse beneath a column inscribed "legislative union" is surrounded by prominent Tory ministers who debate how best to deal with the danger, as Daniel O'Connell steals off. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
  • Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.
  • Phrenological head of Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • Phrenological head of Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • Phrenological head of Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • Aske's Hospital, Shoreditch, London: the facade. Engraving.
  • The faces of Latin American men and women of New York united in their support against AIDS by the New York State Health Department. Colour lithograph.
  • Foundling Hospital, London. Etching by H. Roberts, 1749, after J. Robinson after T. Jacobson.
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