Year: 2009

  • Spiderman to the rescue

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    BBC News report that a fireman dressed up as Spiderman to coax an eight-year-old boy from a third-floor window ledge. Not only is that in itself awesome, but the fireman keeps the costume in his locker. Read the article – bbc.co.uk.

  • Boys win yet again

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    The boys have won the third embryology lecture quiz in a row, Jo Bishop tells me. That’s a fantastic run, but will the girls deal the killer blow in the next one? There are two lectures & two quizzes to go.

  • Boys win again

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    The boys won the quiz at the end of the embryology of the endocrine system lecture, and by quite a large margin. The score is now 5:2 to the girls, with (I think) 3 to play.

  • Week 127 – the structures inside the kidney

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    Hey! I hadn’t taught for a while so it was good to start again, in hopefully a helpfully interactive way as we all looked at sliced and whole kidneys. In the session we talked about the cortex and the medulla, pointing out that while the cortex is outermost it also surrounds medullary (or renal) pyramids…

  • Goals

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    This was a screenshot of my Mac’s desktop last week. The desktop’s wallpaper’s numbers are my half-marathon goal (time & distance). I found it useful to remind myself of what I was aiming for when getting into a fatigued, JFT mode whenever I cleared my display. I smashed that number (and I thought I was…

  • ‘iTunes university’ better than the real thing

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    Jess Griffiths, our Learning Technologist pointed out an interesting publication suggesting that students do better using podcasts than learning from lectures. It’s an unexpected result from my position as both a lecturer and a podcaster and very interesting. The researchers set a lecture for a group of students purely for testing this, with half of…

  • Dexter James DeWreede

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    Rhiannon Fish/DeWreede gave birth to a baby boy yesterday! The second year students will remember Rhi from anatomy teaching last year & of course you all know Rhi through our podcasts. Dexter James DeWreede was born at 2pm by caesarian section and weighed 9lb 8oz! There seems to be a trend in big babies amongst…

  • The Oath

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    I noticed that Welsh and English versions of “The Doctor’s Oath” had gone up in the School of Medicine’s foyer today.

  • Boys win a quiz

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    I hear the boys finally won an embryology quiz after Jo Bishop’s urinary system lecture. Thats 5:1 to the girls, with 4 left to play! I’ll be teaching you the embryology of endocrine organs on Monday afternoon so get prepared.

  • Llanelli Half-Marathon Race Report

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    I ran my first half-marathon race on Sunday, at Llanelli. Here are my mile splits: Mile 1: 6:14 Mile 2: 6:43 Mile 3: 6:37 Miles 4 & 5: 13:04 (missed the mile marker, about 6:32 min/miles) Mile 6: 6:01 Mile 7: 6:06 Mile 8: 6:02 Mile 9: 6:17 Mile 10: 6:22 Mile 11: 6:32 Mile…