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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 ...

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is a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Fellow and scientist at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Australia. His work aims to help identify the causal ...

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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 ...