Year: 2007
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Some women may see 100 million colors, thanks to their genes
Here’s a fascinating article about how we see colour. In particular, thanks to extra colour-detecting cones, some women are able to see millions more shades and colours than other people. This would explain a few things in my household. Article link. (This was linked from slashdot).
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Nurses leave NHS for Oz
Although I wrote, “leave NHS”, many are unable to start work in the UK after qualifying as nurses because jobs are no longer there. “According to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) 3,200 nurses of the 8,000 registering to work abroad want to work Down Under.” BBC article.
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Anatomy Teaching: the cruellest cut of all
Some of the GEP students might be interested to see who we saw in London at an anatomy meeting yesterday. They like his DVDs very much.
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Lack of bodies for medic training
“A shortage of donor bodies is putting medical teaching at risk, the Royal College of Surgeons has warned.” BBC article.
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At home and at play
I’ve put up some photos from the weekend into a new album on the photos page. I was just mucking about with Apple’s Aperture software.
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Podcasts
I’m getting behind with the embryology podcast series. This is mostly because of all the other tasks that I have to prioritise above it, but be encouraged that I’ve been drawing some images specifically for enhanced versions of future podcasts. They take a while to conceive and draw, and I’m going to have to record…
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Round the clock
This is the photo that took my camera to its 10,000 image. The counter reset to 0001. Not a great picture, very flat, but it’s a milestone for the Nikon.