Fraser Macdonald

Jan 15, 2025 | lrb.co.uk | Fraser Macdonald

In the months​ following my parents’ deaths, I decided to buy a flatbed scanner as a partial fix for the drifts of paper they had accumulated after sixty years in the same house – receipts, letters, photographs, notes and diaries. I found that scanning their old 35mm slides kept their absence at bay. Scanning is a robotic task. Stretch the marquee tool. Preview the image. Select the resolution. Name the file. Scan.

Dec 19, 2024 | dental-tribune.com | Fraser Macdonald

Let’s consider these questions in relation to the realm of digital dentistry, a rapidly expanding field that depends crucially on the integration of AI into decision-making processes. Few industries are as technologically dependent as dentistry, and so it is unsurprising that AI has already penetrated deeply into this professional sphere, effecting significant changes to how dentists perform their everyday duties. One of the most important incursions is in the area of diagnostics.

Nov 10, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Fraser Macdonald

ABSTRACTLevenhall Links, an artificial coastal site in eastern Scotland, is examined in relation to the long history of coal extraction and power generation in Scotland; to the aerial geography of mine workings and underground geography of pits and tunnels; and to the railways, sentiments and politics that connected them.

Jun 2, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Fraser Macdonald

After the 1843 Disruption, when the Free Church of Scotland split from the Church of Scotland, some of its leaders tried to raise money from Presbyterians in the American South. Some of those who gave money were slavers. There was disapproval, but the money spoke louder – some sources say the church accepted £3000, others $3000. The American abolitionist Frederick Douglass came to Edinburgh in 1846 to urge the church to ‘Send Back the Money’.

Jun 2, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Fraser Macdonald

After the 1843 Disruption, when the Free Church of Scotland split from the Church of Scotland, some of its leaders tried to raise money from Presbyterians in the American South. Some of those who gave money were slavers. There was disapproval, but the money spoke louder – some sources say the church accepted £3000, others $3000. The American abolitionist Frederick Douglass came to Edinburgh in 1846 to urge the church to ‘Send Back the Money’.