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Observed: Films, Books and Plays

  • Now Reading: Call Me By Your Name

    Now Reading: Call Me By Your Name

    Now Reading: Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

  • Now Reading: Hearing

    Now Reading: Hearing

    Now reading: Hearing, an introduction & practical guide. Edited by JR Tysome and RG Kanegaonkar Hearing Hearing is essential for normal communication. We are able to localise sound with surprising accuracy and can detect time differences as small as the time it takes for sound to pass from the mouth of one person to the ear of another. However, hearing loss is underdiagnosed, poorly understood and a common cause of social isolation. Hearing: An Introduction…

  • Now Reading: Life on the Edge

    Now Reading: Life on the Edge

    Now reading: “Life on the Edge: the coming of age of quantum biology” by Jim Al-khalili and Johnjoe McFadden.

  • Now Reading: Machines Like Me

    Now Reading: Machines Like Me

    Now Reading: Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan.

  • Now Reading: Deep Medicine

    Now Reading: Deep Medicine

    Now reading: Deep Medicine by Eric Topol.

  • Now Reading: Dracula

    Now Reading: Dracula

    Now reading: Dracula by Bram Stoker One of those books you think you know, but surprisingly never read. I am enjoying it far more than I thought.

  • Now Reading: She has her mother’s laugh

    Now Reading: She has her mother’s laugh

    Now reading: “She has her mother’s laugh: the powers, perversions and potential of heredity” by David Grann.