an autodidact meets a dilettante…

‘Rise above yourself and grasp the world’ Archimedes – attribution

and food for thought

1 Asleep: the forgotten epidemic that remains one of medicine’s greatest mysteries, by Molly Caldwell Crosby

2 New Scientist issue 3244

3 Outbreaks and epidemics: battling infection from measles to coronavirus, by Meera Senthilingam

4 New Scientist collection: mysteries of the human brain

5 She has her mother’s laugh: the powers, perversions and potential of heredity, by Carl Zimmer

6 The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare