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The Colour Red

Your name: 
Vytautas Butkus
Entry: 

Apparently blind people cannot distinguish colours as people that can actually see them the latter associate the colour with active and passionate feelings.

Do as I say, not as I do: the Nemours Mission.

Entry: 

Assuming, as I have seen many people do, that "mental retardation" is an outdated and outfavoured term, I explored its current usage in online health-related information sources.

Boy X

Entry: 

I am giving the boy the name Boy X in an attempt to redress the racism he suffered at the hands of the British medical profession in being defined as “of non-European extraction”.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Your name: 
Jack Ashby
Entry: 

Alan Moncrieff - Professor at GOSH who was the doctor involved in the child's case.
Algernon Moncrieff - Lady Bracknell's nephew in The Importance of Being Earnest.

'car' by Harry Crews

Your name: 
catherine Hoffmann
Entry: 

Harry crews, American novelist. Born: June 6, 1935 had a youthful fixation with cars in South Georgia.

Object Speed: A response to Knowledge Conversation

Entry: 

This is in response to Simon’s eloquently argued call for a momentary silence.

The Turn of the Screw

Entry: 

We could read the crude and disproportionate screw in the base, in the context of it’s place as a teaching tool in the Pathology Collection, as a response to the fact that the car committed it’s ow

Sweetness

Entry: 

16.31 15-10-09 (Began Writing): A thought recurring, for some days now: How / when does object begin and end?

Pica

Entry: 

Pica is a medical disorder characterized by an appetite for non-nutritive substances. The condition's name comes from the Latin word for magpie, a bird which is reputed to eat almost anything.

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