Year: 2008

  • 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:…

  • Teaching blog update

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    I still haven’t blogged my notes from my hip joint musculoskeletal anatomy session last week. Bad me. I’ve written part of it but haven’t finished it yet for a couple of reasons. The first is general busyness and prioritising, but the second is because of a shift in the way that I work. I can…

  • 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.

  • Fire on the desktop!

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    I’m feeling really cold. I think changing my desktop wallpaper might help.

  • 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

  • Science

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    “Scientific research was the lifeblood of civilization; it was the one investment that could be guaranteed to pay dividends for eternity.” From Earthlight, by A.C. Clarke.

  • Nothing to see here. Move along.

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  • Sponsor me!

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    This stupid moustache (under the stupid beard) has been cultivated for a couple of weeks now, so it’s time for you lot to start donating! Me and the medical students are raising money for Prostate Cancer, so please donate some cash to make this worthwhile. Click on this donate link and send some money please!…

  • 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…