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  • The Science of Today

    The science of today is the technology of tomorrow –Edward Teller Edward Teller was an American physicist who was instrumental in the creation of the hydrogen bomb. He earned the name ‘father of the hydrogen bomb’, although he would later claim he was not as involved as people thought he was. This is covered in…

  • Scratching the surface: the effect of coronavirus (COVID-19) on eczema

    Eczema affects 1 in 10 Adults Eczema is a very common skin disorder affecting children and adults. It affects 20% of children in the UK at some point in life, and 1 in 10 adults suffer from atopic dermatitis. Eczema is characterised by dry, scaly skin and mild to severe itching. It can be made…

  • 4 COVID-19 Expert Quotes

    Coronavirus (or COVID-19) has taken the world by storm, and after a frenzied period at the beginning of the year, many countries are seeing a rise in the number of cases. Despite the efforts from scientists and researchers across the globe, there is still no vaccine for the virus. This means society is still relying…

  • happiness and health

    Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Amiel’s Journal The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel, (3 Apr 1865)  

  • The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances

    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — C.G. Jung

  • On This Day – 9th Sept

    We’ve all heard of the term ‘bug’ concerning our general day to day and also technology, but have you ever wondered why glitches in different kinds of software are called bugs? “First actual case of bug being found” While people were already using ‘bug’ to describe errors in performance before, its use today stems from…

  • Albert Einstein on Research

    If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? –Albert Einstein

  • The mind is not isolated from the world it lives in.

    The mind is not isolated from the world it lives in. While writing one of my last posts, ‘The Effect of Coronavirus on Mental Health‘ – I wondered how things would improve. Before the pandemic began, many of us were already struggling. We were already dealing with poor mental health – the virus just put…

  • the effect of COVID-19 on mental health

    I wish it would just go away.  That is a common sentiment everyone’s heard at least once this year thanks to the coronavirus, COVID-19, the global pandemic that’s taken the world by storm since early February. COVID-19 has left a huge and unprecedented impact on modern society. An article in Brain, Behavior and Immunity states COVID-19 ‘threatens our basic need for…

  • On This Day – 12th August

    On 12th August 1865, a medical surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister used phenol (a chemical antiseptic) for the first time during medical surgery. This took place in Glasgow, Scotland at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary where Lister encountered an 11-year-old boy called James Greenlees who’d been in a car accident. Lister washed Greenlees’ wounds and dressed them with phenol…