Category: Link

  • Drinking tea cuts cortisol

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    Drink tea to reduce your stress levels: BBC article. I’m needing an urnfull of tea today then.

  • Lost 3

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    The new season (3) of Lost begins tomorrow night (er, in the USA – how in the technological marvel that is the internet could we possibly hope to see this new series before it ships across the atlantic?): ABC’s Lost site. The first episodes of the series are likely to reveal the most.

  • ITWales Slashdotted

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    Wow – ITWales got Slashdotted! ITWales is a Swansea University company: “ITWales is the industrial liaison unit of the Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea. The Department is one of the most distinguished in the UK, with a growing reputation in research both nationally and internationally.” The article is an interview with Ian…

  • Australopithecus afarensis in the news

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    Some of the earliest human remains have been examined and discussed in Nature. That these are the fossilised bones of a child makes this discussion even more fascinating. BBC article.

  • Podcasts of University Lectures?

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    This Ask SlashDot entry is an interesting and important discussion, not so much about the benefits of providing traditional lectures in alternate formats, but more about the importance (or lack of) in attending lectures. The majority of the viewpoints (assumably from current or recent students) suggest that the most important thing at university is that…

  • Busy, busy, busy

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    On Sunday the Cardiff Tri club (my club) held a new triathlon. It was the Emily Prosser Sprint Triathlon, held on the Try-a-Tri course (but essentially not a novice event). Pete Beaumont set a new course record of 50 minutes and 2 seconds as a result of opening the course to all competitors. It was…

  • Feels Good

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    BBC News Magazine says, “Marathon runners are two-a-penny these days. Anyone wanting to push themselves to the limit of extreme sport is doing the triathlon.” Link.

  • Superman No.1

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    Read the first edition of Action Comics, and the first Superman story scanned for you online: here.

  • Drop an iPod in the toilet and bring down a plane.

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    This is pretty nuts, and seems to be corroborated by Canadian press. A young man on a flight accidentally dropped his iPod in the toilet, which was noticed later. This caused the flight to take an emergency landing, all the passengers to be interrogated by customs, the police and the bomb squad, and the plane…

  • Follow that caravan

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    Ace. Read this article about a guy in a microlight chasing a stolen caravan after he watched it getting nicked from above. Link.