Year: 2009

  • Week 114: anatomy of the bladder

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    This week we pretty much finished off looking at the renal system by looking at the bladder (we only have the male urethra yet to study). We used visiblebody.com to get an idea of where the bladder is (and that it is anterior within the pelvis, right up against the pubis bones) and the shape…

  • How much energy can you produce on your bike?

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    For 12 hours? The BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory programme investigated (and demonstrated) what it would be like to try to power a single household by pedal power. Sure, it’s not a practical idea but it gives the viewer some real energy awareness. Well, if the viewer has ever ridden a bike anyway. I won’t…

  • From one period to the next

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    I’m coming to the end of my transition or recovery period after this year’s racing, and after the Dublin marathon in particular. I’ve been taking it really easy for 6 weeks, training as I feel like it and eating wheelbarrow loads of doughnuts and cakes. I’ve done very little running, had a full week of…

  • Simbryo – embryology animation

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    I mentioned Simbryo in one of my recent lectures. If you want to find out more go to the official website at simbryo.stanford.edu. If you have, or are planning to buy, a copy of the Langman’s Medical Embryology textbook I believe that you get a copy of Simbryo with it.

  • A year in preparation

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    I mentioned in my Dublin marathon race report that I’d show some data from the year of training leading up to that race. What do you have to do to run a 2:46 marathon? Let’s start with the year before I started preparing, i.e. from November 2007 to October 2008. Here’s a graph of all…

  • Google Wave, aha, I get it

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    There’s been a lot of chatter about Google’s new product, “Wave“, for the last couple of months. Looking from the outside it’s difficult to see what it does, what it does different, and what we can really use it for. It’s in beta at the moment so only a limited number of people are able…

  • Learning Lab podcast

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    I feature in the current Learning Lab podcast! Chris Hall interviewed and filmed me (yes, its a video podcast) a little while ago about using TurningPoint clickers in embryology lectures, something that Jo and I will also be speaking about at tomorrow’s opening of the Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching (SALT). Links: Swansea Learning…

  • Week 110 – anatomy of the elbow (well, movements & muscles)

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    On Monday I spent most of the morning flexing my guns and poking my cubital fossa. Our aims were to look at the movements of the elbow joint, the muscles involved, and the important structures passing through this region, with particular regard to the cubital fossa. That video makes me feel a little bit ill.…

  • Yet another great reason to buy a Rhoomba

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    Or several Rhoomba floor cleaning robots if you really do want to play Pac-Man with them. Link: Gizmodo – Video: Hacked Roombas Used to Play Pac-Man, Finally!

  • More MS Courier Info

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    I still really like the ideas within Microsoft’s future Courier device, but I bet it won’t play nicely with all my data. Link: Gizmodo – Courier User Interface in Depth