Beyond pharmacy blog
All posts from: November 2014
Mind-altering parasites
Steve Bremer describes different types of parasitic infection that can cause behavioural changes in humans.
Smoking cessation – the Nazi method
Not renowned for its public health measures, Nazi Germany led the first anti-smoking campaign in modern history and was the most powerful anti-smoking movement in the world during the 1930s and early 1940s.
Ensuring the survival of threatened penguins
You have probably seen John Lewis’s mawkish Christmas advertisement featuring Monty, an Adélie penguin created by computer-generated imagery. But spare a thought for the plight of Monty’s endangered real-life relatives, many of whom depend on the UK for their protection.
The centenary of the discovery of x-ray crystallography
2014 is the International Year of Crystallography. Andrew Haynes pays tribute to Rosalind Franklin, whose contributions to crystallography helped to confirm the structure of DNA.
Using art as therapy and visualising science
Benedict Lam looks at an exhibition in London that brings art and science together and spoke to some of the artists to find out their inspiration
Beware the power of knowing your customer
The new profiling tool on the YouGov website is entertaining but has the potential to mislead, writes Emma Page
Googling the bloodstream: how disease might be detected with ingested nanoparticles
Google is developing technology that combines ingested disease-detecting nanoparticles with a wrist sensor.
We must be there for those who are victims of abuse
The legacy of abuse can stay with victims for life, writes Chris Chapman, who heard escaped Westboro Baptist Church member Nate Phelps speak last week.
The afflictions of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Famous as a post-impressionist artist, unfortunate Toulouse-Lautrec was afflicted with pycnodysostosis. David Walsh explains
The controversial coca leaf
David Walsh describes the complicated history of the coca leaf and its use
Is it art to exploit the drug industry’s designs?
The Paul Stolper Gallery is hosting the latest pharmacy-inspired Damien Hirst exhibition. Andrew Haynes questions whether this is art or exploitation.
Sloppy science should not be tolerated
Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli had strong views about sloppy science, writes Andrew Haynes.
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