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is a chartered psychologist, chartered scientist, associate professor in psychology, the lead for the Cyberpsychology Research Group, and deputy director of the International Gaming Research Unit at ...

is professor of music at Indiana University, US. Her books include The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry (2013) and Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval ...

is a research fellow at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her most recent book is Anxiety and Wonder: On Being Human (2024). She lives in London. Rare moments ...

While in her early 70s, the English artist Mary Delany (1700-88) noticed a striking resemblance between a red piece of paper sitting on her bedside table and the colour of a geranium. She then cut the ...