A global calamity the world forgot
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The influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was a global calamity that claimed at least 50 million lives worldwide, but historiographical interest in its devastation and ill effects was largely absent. A concern about a possible avian flu pandemic has revived research on the Great Flu, through identification of the bird flu strain that infected humans in 1918-19 and several literary works on the topic such as "Fever of War" (2005) and "Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue" (2006).
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2007
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Take me to your leading scholars
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A personal account of research into the abduction of humans by extraterrestrials and the psychology of those that believe they have been abducted. It is suggested that the majority of so-called abductees are not mad, they are simply people who believe they have been abducted because it is a way of coming to terms with events that they would otherwise have difficulty quantifying, such as sleep paralysis or perceptual aberrations.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2005
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A grandparent's habits die hard
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Before-birth influences can alter a person's life and studies conducted in Sweden by Lars Bygren and his colleagues found that some boys born in 1905 hade been adversely affected by the diet of their grandparents. If paternal grandfathers had access to copious amounts of food during puberty then his male grandchildren were more likely to die at a younger than average age.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2006
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