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There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in...

We tend to think of babies as, psychologically, relatively uncomplicated creatures. They are happy when clean, warm, and fed, and angry...

What do you do with a gifted child? A child who learns new concepts three or four times faster than his contemporaries, often withdraws...

Do Not Interact With Men Easily Do Not Dance Go to Church Every Sunday Spend Money From Home Wisely Do Not Become as Aggressive as an...

It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany....

In 1955, if you were a man who suffered from premature ejaculation, or a woman who had never known an orgasm, your choices were few and...

For the last thirty-two years of her life, Naomi Weisstein (1939-2015), the mercurial spirit who was simultaneously a cognitive...

There are cases where the towering homogeneity of Victorian culture is exaggerated. The era of Prince Albert and Lord Palmerston was,...

Midwife. Few words in the history of western medicine can evoke sudden and unequivocal academic tribal sentiment as that single term. To...

In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim 10 million lives over the...

The long life of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), the world’s first woman to earn a medical degree, can be divided into two roughly equal...

A young mother of the early twentieth century who could not or did not want to breast feed was a creature entirely at the hands of...

It is sometime in the 1930s, and you are walking into a ward full of crouching children with blue-tinted lips. Something is wrong with...

In 1923, when Estelle Massey graduated from the City Hospital No. 2 School of Nursing with the highest examination score in the entire...

There is an unsung immensity in the craft of Measuring Things Better. Within our sparkling cleverness for developing better and better...

In 1955, the World Health Organization had what, on the surface, seemed a splendid idea: Let’s Get Rid of Malaria. Just four years...

Polio, unique among humanity’s eradicated diseases, carries with it a visual familiarity that has insistently lingered far beyond its...

Of all the realms of mathematics, there are few where more people feel more at home than in the safe harbours of algebra. From the age of...

There’s a lot to like about plain old, everyday space. No matter where you are, there’s always a way to get to where you need to go, and...

‘Momentum is always conserved, except when it isn’t.’ In secondary school physics, we learn all manner of conservation laws, one at a...