Alice Lighton reviews a thoroughly enjoyable short history of the high-security psychiatric hospital
Alice Lighton
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Deputy editor After devouring books through childhood, Alice has spent the last four years doing a physics degree at Oxford. She has worked at Wired and Technology World magazines, and was deputy editor of The Oxford Student. She loves anything physics-related, but is particularly interested in superconductors and weird magnets. She also writes a blog on tropical diseases. As well as writing about science, talking about science, and having arguments about statistics, she likes cats and single-speed bicycles. Email Alice www.switchthelighton.wordpress.com @alicelighton |  |
Opening the door to Victorian BroadmoorBy Alice Lighton17 January 2012 |
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Cold wind blows over US energy policyBy Alice Lighton15 January 2012 Could superconducting wind turbines cooled to -200ºC solve America’s energy woes? |
Peer review: the scientific gold standard?By Alice Lighton20 December 2011 Peer review makes science trustworthy. So why are big-name experiments bypassing the process? |
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We can haz Higgs?By Alice Lighton13 December 2011 The Higgs boson, the particle which explains why everything in the Universe has mass, has been glimpsed by scientists, but more data is needed. |
Diabetes in the developing world going untreated, despite available drugs
By Alice Lighton16 February 2012
Despite the image of diabetes as an affliction of fat Western people, eighty per cent of deaths from the disease are in low- and middle-income countries.