Category: Link

  • Student Gambia Visit

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    Eight students from the second year of the Swansea medicine course are off to the Gambia on Monday to visit colleagues in the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul, and to experience medicine in West Africa. Find out more about the Swansea-Gambia Link and follow the students’ blog and photos on the Swansea-Gambia Link website:…

  • How to grow a good moustache

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    The BBC provide some helpful advice on how to look after your mo, advertising the end of Movember. BBC video.

  • Cathy Davey: Save Button

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    Cathy Davey is summing up how I’ve been feeling about my self-built, custom, water-cooled PC for the last week or so: iTunes: Cathy Davey, Save Button

  • by Scrum V reporter Rick O’Shea

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    “I recognise that face”, I thought, skipping through my Google Reader feed’s articles (Google Alert, “Swansea Medicine”). I’m sure I’ve seen him on Monday mornings. BBC 606 article: Henson’s “season affectively disordered?”

  • Fans go mad for new Warcraft game

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    BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat are reporting on today’s release of the new World of Warcraft update, The Wrath of the Lich King. “World of Warcraft makes more money than the biggest Hollywood blockbusters every single month, has 11 million players and controls two thirds of the online gaming market, so when an expanded version was…

  • iPhone becomes top handset in U.S.

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    I think this is a little amazing: the Apple iPhone is the number one selling mobile phone in the US. How can such a large, expensive, multifunctional device be so popular? It must be good, and more people these days must need more than just a phone. LA Times article.

  • Movember

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    I’m raising money for the prostate cancer charity. Do you want to find out how? Go visit uk.movember.com for more info. Oh yeah, and donate some money! Photos to follow, after you’ve all checked the link out.

  • Rainforest Fungus Naturally Synthesizes Diesel

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    Wired reports, “A fungus that lives inside trees in the Patagonian rain forest naturally makes a mix of hydrocarbons that bears a striking resemblance to diesel, biologists announced today. And the fungus can grow on cellulose, a major component of tree trunks, blades of grass and stalks that is the most abundant carbon-based plant material…

  • Scott Sigler’s Nocturnal

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    Now listening to Nocturnal by Scott Sigler, another in his line of excellent horror novel podcasts. It’s nasty. Scott Sigler’s Nocturnal

  • Movember

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    Hmmm, have I missed the boat, or do I now have a reason to grow a pimp ‘tache for a month? movember.com