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A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...world knows what the American color is. The young couples abounded in the Gallery of Fine Arts, where they frankly looked at one another instead of the pictures. The pictures might have been better, but then they might have been worse (there being examples of Filippo Lippi, Memmi, Holbein, and, above all, the Dante's Dream of Rossetti); and in any case those couples could...
Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...world around us, including our sense of predictability, what the future will hold and the belief we can protect those we care for and about. Here, the authors discuss what this means for some members of society. COVID-19: Children, young people and death anxiety [Worried mother holding hand comforting sad little daughter] Since the first reported case of COVID-19 in Wuhan...
Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...world when travel was difficult or impossible, but also to represent current affairs – The Battle of the Nile, the Coronation of George IV – in a time before illustrated newspapers had made up-to-date imagery cheap and accessible . Modifications of the viewer-scene relationship established by the panorama were also essayed. The moving panorama — a long painting...
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...world, but also with England. And I suppose one of the things that I was thinking about when you were talking then just George was the transition when Geoff Hamilton rather suddenly and sadly was succeeded by Alan Titchmarsh on the Friday night gardening programme, and the concern around that Geoff Hamilton's kind of campaign around peat and organicism would suddenly be...
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...world. There was also a developed culture which had been exposed to Hellenistic influences. A good example of this is the Punic royal funerary monument at Thugga, which combines Punic and Hellenistic features (see Figures 1 and 2). When Numidia became a part of the Roman empire, we might assume that Roman cultural influence would have become more pronounced and that...
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...world. Found in arid and hyper-arid regions of North Africa and the Middle East, the Palestine Yellow Scorpion (or Israeli Desert Scorpion, as it is also known) is only 3–4 inches long but can kill creatures a thousand times its size. In humans, the scorpion’s sting can cause excruciating pain, convulsions, paralysis and potentially even death (owing to heart and...
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...world. In 1997, Wilmut and Campbell created Polly, the first sheep with a human gene in every cell of its body, meanwhile President Bill Clinton banned the use of federal funds for cloning research for five years. Since then scientists have successfully cloned a host of animals, including mice, cattle, goats, and pigs. Fears of reproductive cloning in the future were...
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Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...world around them. Plants do not undergo any experiences; they are not ‘awake’. While they certainly exhibit responses to various sorts of stimuli, it would be stretching it to say they perceive things in their environment or that they have inner experiences or sensations, that they can, for example, feel pain. Animals, of course, are sentient beings, or at least many...