Category: Link
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Strict diets ‘cut heart disease’
Sweet! This is exactly the sort of diet I’ve followed when training hard for climbing. In the past (pre-Jack) I cut my daily calorie intake to around 2000 calories to stay light, but still ate a balanced diet, just less quantity. Yeah, it’s hard, and you generally need good motivation to do it. This new…
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Alan Hinkes Off To Dhaulagiri
“British mountaineer Alan Hinkes has announced that his next “Challenge 8000” expedition will be to climb Dhaulagiri (8,167m), the seventh highest mountain in the world. Alan will be flying out to the Himalaya at the end of March and hopes to reach the summit during May.” The best of British to ya, Alan! I particularly…
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Surgeons Who Play Video Games Err Less
See! I keep telling you people, but you don’t listen! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20040407/ap_on_he_me/video_game_surgery
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Live Departure Boards
This is cool. I hadn’t heard about it before, but you can see the departure boards of your station of choice live over the web. This means I can check, either from work or Starbucks (which opened today, by the way!) if my train is running on time. Swansea rail stations departure board Another grande…
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University ‘for sale’ on eBay
Swansea University is up for sale: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3522969.stm And yes, I’ve got internet access at work now.