Catégories

The kidney: how it fails, what that does to the rest of the body, and how dialysis and transplantation substitute for it.

The neural basis of language: which brain systems carry comprehension and production, and what aphasia and imaging show about them.

Disease of the nervous system: stroke, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, the dementias, and disorders of nerve and muscle.

What brain damage reveals about the healthy mind: which functions can be lost separately, and what that implies about how the rest are organised.

The study of the nervous system, from molecular signaling to cognition and behavior.

Religions that formed recently enough to be watched forming: how they recruit and organise, why they splinter, and how societies react to them.

Structure determination from the response of atomic nuclei in a magnetic field. The standard way to work out what an organic molecule actually is.

The organisations that are neither state nor firm: charities, foundations, associations and volunteering, and what the sector is for.

The general theories of right action -- consequentialist, deontological, virtue-based -- and the case for each.

Radioactivity and nuclear reactions treated as chemistry: isotopes, decay, radiotracers and the handling of radioactive material.

Harnessing nuclear reactions: reactor design and physics, fuel cycles, radiation shielding and waste.

The structure of atomic nuclei, their reactions, and the forces that hold them together.

The study of the integers and arithmetic structures, including primes, divisibility, and Diophantine equations.

Algorithms that compute approximate answers to continuous problems, and the study of the errors they make.

The scholarship of nursing care: how patients are looked after, how outcomes depend on it, and how the workforce is organised.

What food does in the body: nutrients and their metabolism, deficiency and excess, and the difficulty of proving any of it in a population.

Collecting and interpreting data from celestial objects: telescopes, detectors, surveys, and the calibration work that makes a measurement mean something.

Pregnancy and birth, and the diseases of the female reproductive system.

Building for the sea: ships and their hulls, offshore platforms, underwater vehicles, and the loads that waves and corrosion impose on all of them.

The ocean as a system: its circulation, its chemistry, the life in it and the floor beneath it.