This week, Irish author Mark O’Connell won the prestigious £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize 2018 for his critically acclaimed debut To Be a Machine. Edmund De Waal, Chair of Judges, 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, said his book was ‘a passionate, entertaining and cogent examination of those who would choose to live forever.” To Be a Machine: […]
This week, Irish author Mark O’Connell won the prestigious £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize 2018 for his critically acclaimed debut To Be a Machine. Edmund De Waal, Chair of Judges, 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, said his book was ‘a passionate, entertaining and cogent examination of those who would choose to live forever.” To Be a Machine: […]
“We are all agreed on one thing – that the subject of masturbation is quite inexhaustible.” (Sigmund Freud, 1912, Vienna Psychoanalytic Society). Until 13th May, The Freud Museum, London, presents Solitary Pleasures, a fascinating new group exhibition that investigates a topic significant in Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalysis, sexuality, and eroticism: masturbation. Sigmund Freud observed that sexuality […]
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“We are all agreed on one thing – that the subject of masturbation is quite inexhaustible.” (Sigmund Freud, 1912, Vienna Psychoanalytic Society). Until 13th May, The Freud Museum, London, presents Solitary Pleasures, a fascinating new group exhibition that investigates a topic significant in Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalysis, sexuality, and eroticism: masturbation. Sigmund Freud observed that sexuality […]
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Roughly coinciding with Easter, Jewish Passover (which this year falls between 30th March to 7th April), commemorates the Israelites exodus from slavery in Egypt. To celebrate this momentous event, each spring Jewish people from around the world remember the story of their lucky escape at a celebratory meal called the Seder (which means ‘order’ in […]
Roughly coinciding with Easter, Jewish Passover (which this year falls between 30th March to 7th April), commemorates the Israelites exodus from slavery in Egypt. To celebrate this momentous event, each spring Jewish people from around the world remember the story of their lucky escape at a celebratory meal called the Seder (which means ‘order’ in […]
A Tribute to Sir Roger Bannister (1929 – 2018), a towering 20th figure of sport and medicine who went down in history for running the first four-minute mile – but he placed more value on his lifetime achievements as a neurologist at St Mary’s Hospital, London. “The man who can drive himself further once the […]
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A Tribute to Sir Roger Bannister (1929 – 2018), a towering 20th figure of sport and medicine who went down in history for running the first four-minute mile – but he placed more value on his lifetime achievements as a neurologist at St Mary’s Hospital, London. “The man who can drive himself further once the […]
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In 1959, CP Snow wrote that “the intellectual life of the whole of Western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups.” He was referring to the estrangement between scientists and literary intellectuals, but his words could have as true for science and the visual arts. Although arts and science are often seen as […]
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In 1959, CP Snow wrote that “the intellectual life of the whole of Western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups.” He was referring to the estrangement between scientists and literary intellectuals, but his words could have as true for science and the visual arts. Although arts and science are often seen as […]
Read More… from 2018 Wellcome Book Prize – longlist announced