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When lawyers talk about “equity” they can mean at least three things, most generally “a moral reading of the law”. The original construction comes from Aristotle: “The equitable is just; not the legally just, but a correction of legal justice. All law is universal, but about some things it is not possible to make a universal statement which will be correct. When the law speaks universally, and a case arises which is not covered by the universal statement, then it is right to correct the omission”

The political economy of nervous systems. Simple repetitive actions in simple organisms can be dictated by single cells — the chirping of a cricket, for example. But for humans and other complex organisms the nervous system is more like a democracy, or a wisdom of crowds. Thus we perceive colors by the “proportional voting” of three kinds of photoreceptors which respond to different wavelengths of light. Millions of cells make individual decisions and the majority prevails

A mother tells of giving birth to a baby doomed to die. “The delivery turned out to be difficult. It ended with unfamiliar faces around the bed, talking rapidly to each other above my head while I tried to catch what they were saying about Nadia’s shoulders. Was everything all right with her little shoulders? I could still feel her kicking. There was a flash of sharp pain. It seemed as if the snip of the closing scissors reached my ears much later. I heard a scream before realising that it came from... Читать дальше...

“When he began to kill, Thounaojam Herojit never intended to tell his wife – let alone the whole country. He was a young police constable in Manipur, a province in the north-east of India bloodied by decades of separatist insurgency and state reprisal. But he was also a commando, part of an elite unit raised to fight the insurgents, and he was set to become their most effective executioner. He kept a diary, recording dates and names. Eventually there was a second notebook, then a third”