I thought this Guardian datablog of mortality statistics was interesting. There are always numbers being thrown around about your risk of dying of xxx disease – you know the sort of thing: 1 in 10 Australians will die from drop bear attacks by the time they’re 40, so reduce your risk by eating less Vegemite,… [Read more…]
October 6, 2011
News from the Guardian on a report called report Careering out of Control: A Crisis in the UK Science Profession?: Science has always been a tough profession. The hours are long, the pay is relatively poor for the education and training required (usually about a decade), and permanent positions are scarce. Most research worldwide is… [Read more…]
August 17, 2011
A British man was tragically mauled to death by a shark on his honeymoon in the Seychelles, while his wife was sunbathing on the beach. Check out the advertisement underneath the Guardian story: Ooops! Ad placement fail.
August 10, 2011
In an article in the latest New Scientist Baroness Susan Greenfield (she’s a prominent English neuroscientist at Oxford University and former director of the UK Royal Institution) was answering a question on: What evidence is there that digital technology is having an impact on our brains? There is lots of evidence, for example, the recent paper “Microstructure… [Read more…]
August 7, 2011
Here’s a fascinating and confronting article about forced marriages in England. It’s summer school holidays in the UK now, which means for schoolgirls it’s high-risk forced marriage season. They could be sent on holidays back to their parents’ country of origin and married off. Because the average victims are girls aged 14 to 19, she says… [Read more…]
July 30, 2011
Scientists, how is this for a controversial suggestion: an article in the Guardian today in favour of government regulation of scientists, as advocated by a new Parliamentary report. In [the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee] report today, it calls for serious action, not on peer review but on fraud. “Although it is not the… [Read more…]
May 20, 2011
I found this post on a blog called Aetherwatch. It’s in response to Stephen Hawking dissing God, and now this week Hawking has said in an interview with the Guardian that “heaven … is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark”. Hawking has “ruined it for everyone” – says God Writing exclusively for today’s… [Read more…]
October 29, 2011
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