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‘Insanity caused by…’: Cannabis Consumption and Colonisation

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2021-22/welcome/text-analysis/lydia/

by Lydia Housley MHBI = Medical History of British India corpus.  I. Introduction It is often overlooked that cannabis has a long and fascinating history which is by no means isolated to the drug culture of the modern world. In nineteenth-century India, cannabis was known as ‘ganja’, and its use was widespread. Ganja is discussed […]


See the full list of CAN members

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/scphrp/conversations-on-ageing-network-members/

Below is a list of all members of the Conversations on Ageing network. # Name Role Organisation Email 1 Afsana Tarannum MURP Student Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) afsana.tarannum@gmail.com 2 Amara Blessing Okechukwu Postgraduate student University of Southampton abo1n20@soton.ac.uk 3 Arvind Kasthuri Professor of Community Health […]


Professor Moon-Sook Park – Atlanta Spa Shooting Victims Remembrance and Tribute

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghforumonkorea/2021/04/25/professor-moon-sook-park-atlanta-spa-shooting-victims-remembrance-and-tribute/

Professor Moon-Sook Park, soprano and Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas, was invited to perform at St Cecilia’s Hall on the occasion of the 2020 SoKEN conference. The event was later postponed due to the pandemic. We are delighted to share her performance here.   This performance of 엄마야 누나야 (Dear Mother, Dear Sister) […]


Animal animation

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dmsp-presence23/2023/04/25/animal-animation/

I am using Blender to create animations of animals. To begin, I add a skeletal system and associate it with the animal model. Subsequently, I enter the animation mode and utilize the skeletal manipulation tools to transform and animate specific portions of the animal model, such as rotating or translating bones. Once I select an […]


Successfully reducing neural tube defects in Australia

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2118935_global-health-challenges-an-introduction-2020-2021sem1/2020/09/27/successfully-reducing-neural-tube-defects-in-australia/

Neural tube defects?? What exactly are they and why is it important? These were questions I had when I first learned that reducing neural tube reductions held the top spot in the 2018 report by the Public Health Association of Australia, Top 10 Public Health Successes Over the Past 20 Years. So, what exactly is […]


Brief CV

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/anton/brief-cv/

Summary Anton Ziolkowski is Professor of Petroleum Geoscience at the University of Edinburgh. He has a BA in Engineering and Natural Sciences (Cambridge), a PhD in Geophysics (Cambridge) and a MSc in Politics (London School of Economics). He was previously Professor of Applied Geophysics at Delft University of Technology 1982-92. After his PhD his first […]


Decay and maintenance of sensory memories

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/smartsense/2024/07/09/decay-and-maintenance-of-sensory-memories/

Previous research has found that memories based mainly on sensory information decay if they are not maintained. For example, people who have become blind are likely over time to lose their visual memories and, thus, the ability to visually imagine objects, shapes, and faces. However, people who have lost hearing seem to have memories of […]


Year 5 careers fair: medical education directorate

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/medstudentlife/2021/01/06/year-5-careers-fair-medical-education-directorate/

Representing the Medical education directorate are Dr Cathleen Holligan and Dr Daniel Day.   Dr Cathleen Holligan Hi I’m Cat, I am a Clinical Teaching Fellow working for my second year within the Medical Education Directorate. My background is in Psychiatry having completed my core training here in the South East. I hope to pursue […]


Weekly Changes - 05/06/2023

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lcfg/2023/06/06/weekly-changes-05-06-2023/

This week’s release includes various improvements for the Ubuntu server environment, primarily for Jammy support. It also sees the introduction of snapd-less firefox packages which brings the Jammy desktop project close to completion. Here are the details of all the notable changes… firefox On Ubuntu Jammy the standard firefox package requires snapd. In Informatics we […]


TOWER BLOCK

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sccs/2012/07/09/towerblock/

TOWER BLOCK is a multi-faceted historical initiative aimed at documenting and disseminating information about the great post-World War II mass housing drive. The project was initially launched by Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius in a fieldwork and research programme in the late 1980s into mass housing in the UK, published in definitive form in the […]


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