Rebecca Wallersteiner takes at look at Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition Jason and the Adventure of 254, an artist’s joyful exploration of becoming disabled as a child. Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition Jason and the Adventure of 254, is a major solo show of exuberant, kaleidoscopically-colourful artworks by artist Jason Wilsher-Mills, curated by Shamita Sharmacharja and an […]
Polio booster campaign: Last month an unvaccinated man in Rockland county, New York contracted and became parylised by Poliomyelitis (Polio). This was the first recorded case of the disease for almost a decade in the United States. The Polio virus, is a highly infectious disease which is transmitted person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route […]
Air quality in London has improved but the ULEZ had only a small effect, finds study. London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) reduced the city’s nitrogen dioxide levels by only a few per cent, finds new Imperial College London research.The researchers say their findings highlight that ULEZs are not a silver bullet and that sustained improvements […]
How Londoners coped with a Heat Wave back in 1952. […]
Sight loss costs London’s economy £6.4 billion, around £750 per Londoner, per year, according to a new report Eye Health- preventing sight loss in London, and by 2030, an extra 194,000 Londoners are predicted to have a sight-threatening eye condition and an extra 74,000 with sight loss. Already one in twelve adults in London has […]
If you think pollution is bad in London now, just take a look at what Londoners were forced to breathe into their lungs in the 1960s. And the researchers at the Medical Research Council had it even worse – they were guinea pigs of the day, exposed to soot in a closed room and then […]
Rigoletto was the catalyst. It had been 12 years since I last lived in Italy and sitting in Covent Garden listening to this opera, I suddenly really wanted to go back. I closed my eyes and was back among the Umbrian hills with my wife, singing opera in our Mini while driving to Assisi. The […]