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Week In Geek: 15-21 April 2013

London events for people with curious minds.

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Week In Geek: 8-14 April 2013

London events for people with curious minds.

Image: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images.

Cholera Crusher: John Snow Anniversary Walks And Exhibition

Not the Channel 4 newsreader. He’s a ‘Jon’.

Wax anatomical model of female human head showing internal structure of skull, German(?), 19th century.

Doctors, Dissection And Resurrection Men @ Museum Of London

A friendly dose of sawn-off limbs, crucified corpses and human skin.

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Explore Human Limits @ Wellcome Collection

A fascinating symposium about the possibilities of human bodies and minds (sponsored post).

One of former home of Bedlam now houses a branch of the Imperial War Museum.

New Events At Bethlem Hospital Museum

Learn about the history of Bedlam.

A diatom (a unicellular organism) by Anne Weston.

Preview: Wellcome Image Awards 2012

The beauty of nature, close-up.

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Review: Brains @ Wellcome Collection

See them sliced, poked, scanned and prodded.

Mark Hawkins (Hugo Forester), Candice Kuntu (Efua Kuntu)

Theatre Review: Whose Blood @ The Old Operating Theatre

Londonist reviews Whose Blood at The Old Operating Theatre, where bodies were in much demand in 1832, for many different reasons…

Betsy Field, Side Effects

Theatre Review: Side Effects @ Rich Mix

10 mg dance, 8mg theatre, 3.75 ml science: Side Effects is a performance exploring society’s relationship to medicine. Can it make us feel better about what we take to feel better?

Royal London's new building, by M@.

Key London Hospitals To Lose Over 600 Jobs

Over 250 nursing staff excised by financial scalpel.