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...humanity's capacity for creating destruction might have wiped out all sense of fraternity - unless this really is the war to end all wars...[Christmas Dinner for Aussie soldiers 1917] A dining hall full of Australian soldiers sharing Christmas dinner at Halton Camp, Buckinghamshire in 1917 Christmas in the age of high explosives We have the fourth war Christmas with us;...

...human companions. Christopher Eccleston, who played the first relaunched Doctor, told the BBC that the new show retained “the central message of love for life in all its forms”. If this is the case, we have wondered, why isn’t the Doctor a vegan? [The Conversation] Peter Capaldi, who plays the latest incarnation of the Doctor, has not eaten meat on screen. This is a...

...Humans to Westworld, from Her to Ex Machina, and from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D to Black Mirror – near future science fiction in recent years has given audiences some seriously unsettling and prophetic visions of the future. According to these alternative or imagined futures, we are facing a post-human reality where humans are either rebelled against or replaced by their...

...human societies view and treat the body display knowledge of some diverging ancient and modern approaches to the body...The body in antiquity: 1 Why the body? - In many ways, human history is a history of bodies. Bodies attend parliaments and move to different regions; it is in human brains that ideas are conceived and decisions are made; it is human limbs that embrace...