One giant leap!

I just read Holly McHugh’s Q&A ‘What is the birthday effect?’ (March 2024, p83). It made me wonder, if birthday deaths are statistically higher – in part, because of alcohol consumption and terminally

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2-8 SEPTEMBER

It’s not the big birthdays ending with 0 that throw us – it’s the 365 days before them, says Clare Bowie. Here, she reflects on life ‘on the cusp’

Trudy Sellick rose before dawn on 12 March 1970. An audio typist, she was keen to complete a most important task before starting work. So by 7am she was waiting for the doors to open at her local poll

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