Year: 2009

  • Stem Cell Facials

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    “Stem cell facial”? That sounds rather like that South Park episode. (Yes, that one, with that infamous source of stem cells, but let’s not discuss it here). Would you rub stem cells into your face to reduce wrinkles? Skin care companies selling anti-ageing creams are always making scientific-sounding claims in their widespread tv adverts and…

  • Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd

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    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are working to reduce malaria deaths worldwide, among many other things. The Fox News website reports, “Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease malaria. “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,” Gates said…

  • Snowballs!

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    I picked Jack up from school yesterday to work on our snowball throwing.

  • Keeping warm

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    More scorpions arrive, prompted by more cold spells.

  • Snow’s gone

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    Much ado about nothing?

  • Flickr: Snow creations

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    Take a look at some of the UK’s snow creations, as collected on Flickr. I love the stormtrooper and his mini snowman.

  • Academic Earth – General Human Anatomy

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    Academic Earth have a wide range of video lectures “from the world’s top scholars”. I thought I’d include a link to the Berkeley General Human Anatomy series for student interest. Is this style of teaching and/or resource useful to you, personally? Please comment, or let me know in person. I may poll Swansea medical students…

  • More snow

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    More snow, originally uploaded by samwebster. Swansea snow. Not sure why everyone’s going home if they’ve already made it in though. The forecast suggests it’s going to get better, not worse.

  • Cycling in February

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    We”re only seeing a light dusting of snow in Swansea.

  • Kids

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    A recent study of the health costs for premature births recommends more research in this area would save money, as reported by the BBC. “Premature births cost the UK an extra £939m a year, say researchers at the Oxford Centre for Health Economics. “Their study calculated what the costs would be for all the preterm…