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• White Ladies No. 6

  Posted: 4 February 2012 | 10:47 am

  

  A recent Banksy (date unknown). Liking the Keith Haring reference...

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• A big balancing act

  Posted: 3 February 2012 | 9:00 am

  We mostly do it without thinking, but when we do, it's useful to remember that good balance and mobility are essential for performing the most ordinary daily activities. Balancing is a complex (if unconscious) task involving co-ordination between the body's... Read more >>

• Eiko Ishioka

  Posted: 2 February 2012 | 12:42 pm

  My friend Mark Holborn wrote to me of the death of the extraordinary costume designer and lovely woman, Eiko Ishioka. She died on 21 January as a result of Pancreatic cancer. Eiko had a stellar career. I first encountered her... Read more >>

• Finding language on the brain...

  Posted: 1 February 2012 | 1:00 pm

  I read that researchers at the University of California have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words. The technique, reported in PLoS Biology, relies on gathering electrical signals directly... Read more >>

• Dying to tell you about mortality

  Posted: 31 January 2012 | 1:25 am

  The Telegraph reports that mortality rates for men have fallen by almost half over the past three decades, according to the Office for National Statistics, and by more than a third for women. The drop is down to better medical... Read more >>

• Dancing for Parkinson's

  Posted: 24 January 2012 | 9:55 am

  My good friend Gino d’Achille, the artist and well-respected illustrator of the Flashman, John Carter of Mars and a myriad of other titles, has had Parkinson’s for about 12 years. He still draws and paints magnificently, but his life involves... Read more >>

• 'What I Learnt' at thinkpublic

  Posted: 23 January 2012 | 12:44 pm

  'What I learnt' is an activity that Alice Osborne created at thinkpublic, to capture internal learning and share it more widely. Here's one I like! Read more >>

• Love after Love, by Derek Wallcott

  Posted: 23 January 2012 | 9:00 am

  As I have always said to my children, their birthays are my birth days too. Today is my daughter's birthday and therefore it is my 28th birth day. Happy birthday to her – and also to the wonderful Nobel Laureate,... Read more >>

• Early tulips

  Posted: 22 January 2012 | 8:34 am

  "No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller Read more >>

• Daisy Part 9: The 'Zimbardo 1973' factor?

  Posted: 22 January 2012 | 8:19 am

  Are the basic psychological factors demonstrated in Zimbardo's Stanford University 'guards and prisoners' experiment in 1973 being played out in older people's wards in hospitals today? Read more >>

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