Year: 2008

  • Brighton

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    Travelling to Brighton today. Photos going to Flickr.

  • Respiratory embryology podcast

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    A new podcast, “the embryology of the respiratory system” has gone up on iTunes (enhanced AAC) and on the Medicine page (MP3). Dr Geraint Morris, a consultant neonatologist from Singleton Hospital adds much interest to our usual whittering on. Rhi and I did intend to follow it up with a cardiovascular podcast, but instead have…

  • iPod Touch

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    Sweeeeeet. For testing video podcasts….

  • Japanese robots enter daily life

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    An AP article in USA Today is suggesting that robots that are already taken for granted in Japanese factories are starting to become accepted in other parts of life. The Japanese government is predicting that the robotics industry could be worth almost $70 billion by 2025, and says that an aging population pushes this need.…

  • A history of kidney study

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    Fascinating to me, but maybe less so to medical students, is “The Kidney Through the Ages”. Members of the Italian Society of Neonatology have summarised the major discoveries over the last 2400 years leading to our modern day understanding of kidney structure and function. It’s a great list of tales of precocious genius, logical reasoning…

  • Cracknell’s Cross-Continent Challenge

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    Have you been following any of the Sport Relief activities? James Cracknell is on his way to North Africa, and at the moment he’s in Northern Spain. How’s he getting there? First he rowed across the English Channel. Which is impressive enough, even giving his Olympic heritage in this sport. He’s now cycling from there,…

  • St David’s Day Concert

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    Jack’s Primary School had their St David’s Day concert today. What are they telling us these days? To take on some of the culture of the country that we immigrate to, to learn its history, the language and so forth? Jack’s certainly doing that, but there’s still something very wrong about putting him in a…

  • 3 months old

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    Annabel was weighed at 7lb 7oz yesterday, making her now (at 3 months old) about the same weight Jack was when he was born!

  • Podcasts

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    Sheesh. You really shouldn’t listen to your own podcasts several weeks after you recorded them. It’s way worse than reading typos in your submitted manuscripts.

  • Teaching next Monday

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    I feel a little (only a little) contrary in saying this, but I’m looking forward to teaching on Monday. Teaching on Monday mornings can be tough, in that you may not have had enough time in the previous week to prepare exactly as you would like, so Sunday afternoons and/or evenings get eaten up by…