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Kirurg på 1300-talet
Hur var det att vara kirurg och läkare på 1300-talet, då läkekonsten var en salig blandning av astronomi, botanik, religion och gammal folktro. I Vetandets värld intervjuas Torgny Svenberg om nyutgivna Ardernes Practica, en medicinhistorisk skattkista.
Rebellen Gorbatjov
Fortfarande rebell, Michail Gorbatjov, 82, talar om Putins Ryssland, sitt eftermäle och Raisa – hustrun han älskade och förlorade. Intervju…
Svante Pääbo – med neandertalaren i generna
Genetikern Svante Pääbo är gäst i Vetandets värld Fokus. Han är mannen som lett arbetet med att ta fram neandetalarnas DNA, en jättebedrift som presenterades den 7:e maj 2010 i den vetenskapliga tidskriften Science. Lyssna på programmet i SR.
Neandertalaren i oss
De flesta har lite neandertalare i sig. I Svante Pääbos ”Jakten på våra uråldriga gener”, som snart kommer ut i…
Anderson Cooper intervjuar Christopher Hitchens
CNN’s Anderson Cooper intervjuar Christopher Hitchens om cancer, tankar om döden och att bränna ljuset i båda ändar.
The year of living dyingly
”The phrase “the year of living dyingly” occurs only once in Christopher Hitchens’s new memoir, Mortality, but it is strong enough to stay with the reader long after the book has concluded. If I’ve learned one thing from this slim tome, it’s that death is easy; it’s dying that takes away our dignity, and with it, our humanity. Mortality is an honest stare-down, sometimes brutally so, in the face of death. ”
The year of living dyingly
The phrase “the year of living dyingly” occurs only once in Christopher Hitchens’s new memoir, Mortality, but it is strong…
Recension: Att dö
Not surprisingly, this book about a ”year lived dyingly” is not Hitchens at his muscular best. It has other virtues,…
Recension Att dö: “To the dumb question ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”
”What makes the book truly extraordinary is his profound oscillation between his characteristic, proud, almost stubborn self-awareness — that ability…
Recension: Hitchens get the last word
In life, he was a tub-thumping atheist, and much of his book is given over to ranting against God, prayers,…
Recension: Staying Power
Christopher Hitchens began his memoir, “Hitch-22,” on a note of grim amusement at finding himself described in a British National…
Recension: Att dö
This last sad and oddly inspiring book, Christopher Hitchens’s own pieces are shaped like a fugue; the theme is death,…