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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...world, but it has also developed in new forms in the modern day. Group identity might be developed via online forums and activities around shared arts practices, for example, which are particularly important for vulnerable or marginalised groups (see Zarobe and Bungay, 2017). [Elderly Asian people painting cactus pots for outdoor art therapy ] Closely linked to these...
The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...world-wide Roma community as part of the Indian diaspora. A European Roma-led truth and reconciliation commission has been established to raise awareness of the Roma’s historical and ongoing persecution. A dedicated Roma exhibition and memorial is due to open in the Czech Republic, in 2023, on the site of the Roma concentration camp mentioned earlier. The pig farm has...
The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...world wide for free with no restrictions on their use or distribution. Analysing sections of DNA Fragments of DNA have to be propagated, i.e., large numbers of copies made of individual DNA fragments, generally grown up as sections of DNA in bacteria, or in the test tube, by all the laboratory techniques such as a polymerase chain reaction. A polymerase chain reaction is...
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...
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...