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In London tomorrow doctors and other health care professionals will witness Dominic Webb and Jimmy O'Hare witness the nearest thing to a sexual encounter they can have. 
Dominic, a tetraplegic after falling from a multi-storey building 15 years ago, and Jimmy, born deaf and blind since childhood, have each ... Read More »
I heard a university librarian confess to biblioclasm today. With space running out and academic colleagues eyeing his prime campus real estate enviously, he dumped 100 000 volumes of print journals dating back decades after a fruitless attempt to give them away. Nobody wanted them.
Some of the dumped books ended up ... Read More »
what altruistic act would you place above your own health? ... Read More »
Should we as responsible adults/parents provide alcohol to our underage children in order to immunise them against its effects and encourage responsible drinking? ... Read More »
Although I had never really thought of myself as a hypochondriac, this event at Tate Britain
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In 1909 the average life expectancy in the developed world was approximately 50.  It is now about 80.  What will it be in 2109?  It's a brave new world but I believe it is not unreasonable to predict that it will be common then for people to live into their third century.  Advances in genetics, ... Read More »
This a book review of Anthony Beevor's latest book, D-Day, about the allied invasion of Normandy. ... Read More »
Rum is an evocative drink with an interesting and turbulent history. The myth that rum is a crude drink is dispelled and the huge variety of rums now available makes for interesting discoveries.  ... Read More »
This Saturday I was in a busy supermarket doing my weekly shop. At the checkout there was an elderly lady in the queue behind me. As I was packing my food into my bags I noticed that she had chosen a faulty bottle of milk and it had spilt all over the contents of her trolley as well as onto the carousel. She hadn't realised ... Read More »

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