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10 Dec 2015: PRACTISING THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE “There is nothing - nothing at all - that compares with the exhilaration of discovery, of being the first person on the planet to see something new and under

3 Dec 2015: What are your thoughts on bees? Don’t you just hate them? For some people bees are just an annoyance, I used to think this too (but bees are not as bad as we think, and as you carry on reading

3 Dec 2015: Sugar and alcohol, how far would we go to get them? Most of us are within walking distance of one or the other, but scientists have discovered a “relatively nearby” source of huge quanti

2 Dec 2015: Where, then, is the rigour that we associate with economics and with finance? ... is, says Pitt-Watson, that financial economics on the whole has done pretty badly by this metric.

26 Nov 2015:  Annie Bartlett is an experienced clinician who describes how her clinical practice is affected by ethical, social and political considerations. The recent movie “Suffragette” i

19 Nov 2015: Picture by Max Alexander   I am a cosmologist. In my research, I am contributing to an international effort to understand the origin and the evolution of the Universe. It is amazing that

12 Nov 2015: My name is Kate Wilkinson and I have just started my third year of engineering at Murray Edwards. I had enjoyed Chemistry, Biology and especially Physics at school and college, but was finding it hard

5 Nov 2015: At school they give you an overview. But of course, it doesn't end there. At college you get more info, at University you get the whole lot. But in life and throughout history, everything to know

5 Nov 2015: Obesity today is one of the biggest burdens on the United Kingdom’s economy; an incredible £47 billion is spent a year on obesity-related illnesses. It does not even stop there; people tod

5 Nov 2015: Another driver is economic reality: the cost of doing nothing is becoming greater than the cost of acting. ... Did you care? There are clearly defined areas where you do have to compete, and this is beneficial to the economic progress.