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Peter Dickson
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Philosopher, medical researcher (psychiatry, oncology), astrophysicist, naturalist, violinist, flautist. Learning 27 languages Sydney
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 2h
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The Life and Reign of Louis IX, the Saint King of France | TheCollector
Discover the surprising impact that King Louis IX had on medieval history.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1d
Ovid’s tale is a lusty celebration of man’s triumph over nature.
The story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid’s Metamorphoses needs a new translation for the #MeToo era
Ovid’s tale is a lusty celebration of man’s triumph over nature.
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Here’s what happens in your brain when you can’t get a tune out of your head.

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In our era of globalisation, foreign investment is heralded as a lifeline for developing economies. Yet, as this Essay by @gkleinmartins.bsky.social explores, history tells a more complicated story
How foreign capital can hinder, or help, economic development | Aeon Essays
How do some countries manage to channel foreign capital into economic development while others are just exploited by it?
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 1d
New research reminds us that few diseases stem from a single gene.

Understanding the interplay of many variants could unlock truly personalized care.

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1 gene, 1 disease no more – acknowledging the full complexity of genetics could improve and personalize medicine
Your DNA contains millions of genetic variants that interact with each other in ways that affect whether diseases such as schizophrenia and heart disease develop, and with what severity.
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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A terrifying book dissects the neuroscience of warfare
Warhead by neuroscientist Nicholas Wright is an alarming insider account of how our brains influence conflict – and how those brains were, in turn, shaped by war, finds Elle Hunt
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?
Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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Why 'beauty factories' could solve two massive cosmological mysteries
Facilities that make particles called B mesons may seem obscure, but they could help explain why there is more matter than antimatter and what dark matter is, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science
Work on medical uses of mind-altering substances was sidelined for decades by the political backlash against drugs, a misstep that has echoes in today’s intolerance of some fields of study
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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Hints of exotic dark matter particles could be hiding in LHC data
Particles similar to axions, the leading candidate for dark matter that has long eluded detection, may have already been created in particle colliders – and remained hidden in the data
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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Mapping the structure of the brain doesn't fully explain its function
Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons has revealed a surprising number of differences, suggesting that the structur...
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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We finally found the hot wind coming out of our black hole
Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, should be sending out hot wind – they have just caught the first glimpse of...
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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Ultracold clocks could reveal how quantum physics alters time
The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test the boundaries of physics
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 1d
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How fast you age may be controlled by a DNA repair boss in your cells
When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 2d
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‘A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century: Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’’ by Tony Smith reviewed by Stephen Darling
In A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century, Tony Smith argues for “a feasible and superior alternative” (120) to capitalism in the form of republican socialism. At its core, republicanism rests on tw...
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 2d
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‘Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing’ by John Berger,’Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance’ by John Berger reviewed by Reece Rogers
To many of us, today’s world might not resemble a Greek tragedy. It does not have the tragic feel or look of a play by Sophocles, or one by Aeschylus. It does not seem to be dominated by gods or oracl...
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Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social · 2d
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