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Call the Midwife! But, like, be really nice to them because it’s a really hard job…

This post contains discussion of the challenges in midwifery and childbirth If you’ve been watching/reading/listening/imbibing the news over the past few years, you will have heard repeated claims of the crisis in midwifery. Not in terms of student recruitment (which remains strong), but in terms of clinical care. There have been a series of high-profile …

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The Menu is a delicious feast for forensic anthropologists

This post contains many significant spoilers for the film The Menu currently streaming on Disney+. When I was an undergrad student I used to co-host a weekly movie review show on the university radio station. Demonstrating that I was as cool back then as I am now (this is clearly not one of the spoilers …