The UK, like much of the world, remains under lockdown in response to the coronavirus crisis. As of the 29th May, Public Health England released data that shows there have been 269,127 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the UK, with 37,837 deaths recorded in hospitals (not including figures from places like care homes). According to [...]
In 1962 a small village in the East African country of Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania) ground to a halt because of an epidemic of laughter. In the village Katasha in a small missionary boarding school, one girl began to laugh uncontrollably, then a small group of children also started to laugh, kids laugh right? [...]
Five years ago the Microsoft business Magnate Bill Gates was invited to give a TED Talk in Vancouver Canada. The TED Talk was delivered in the wake of the Ebola outbreak which killed thousands of people, spread to five African countries and the US. During the presentation Bill Gates predicted that the greatest risk of [...]
We all look forward to welcoming the warmer temperatures which come with spring – but the season also means the return of hay fever, the extremely common allergy to pollen which affects up to one in five of us during our lifetime. Many of us are familiar with the unpleasant symptoms of hay fever, which [...]
