Book review: Edison's Eve by Gaby Wood

After he was done with the phonograph and the electric bulb, the American scientist Thomas Alva Edison focused his attention on a living doll …

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Unknown agencies behind medical journals

Medical journals are the bibles of the healing profession. They command peer respect, and possess immense reach among doctors. But, as the uk-…

Spoilsport

They like taxes

High-handed governments

No lame ducks

Moribund thinking

Problematising the tropics

BBC gagged

Show must go on

A much-needed reader

Big daddy watching

Wise at last?

A damp squib

A holistic approach

The Mahatma's campaign

Outrageous

Shame, shame

Bravo

Glib talk

Below the mark

Organisational tinkering?

Don't want to farm

Bravo Kenya