Year: 2009

  • Heart sounds, podcast

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    Are you learning to recognise heart sounds, or revising? Go to iTunes U and have a listen to this Medical College of Georgia podcast: Heart Sounds This is a natural and great use for the podcast format, but you’ll need some teaching to go with the sounds that you hear! As a simple anatomist I’ve…

  • Week 101: an introduction to the small and large intestine

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    In our first anatomy session on Monday we began the year by introducing the abdomen. It’s a good place to start as most of the anatomy here is fairly straightforward and it gets you thinking in three-dimensions. The concept of the peritoneum is the toughest part to understand, as are the mesentery, mesocolon, omenta and…

  • Human Race Dorney Middle Distance Aquathlon – race report

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    I’m training for the Dublin Marathon at the end of October, so I was looking for a race or 2 for interest and measure that would fit into my September schedule. I really didn’t fancy lining up at the Bristol half-marathon with thousands of others. Hunting around I found an interesting length of race: a…

  • BMW’s Augmented Reality repair manual

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    Via Gizmodo.

  • Lots of wet

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    Welcome to Swansea! Not that you can see it through the rain. I’m really not looking forward to cycling home.

  • Starting the year

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    Starting the year, originally uploaded by samwebster. And so we start again. Except this time, we’re starting off a brand new medicine course. My anatomy is a little better this time, I think.

  • AR contact lenses?

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    Micro displays in spectacles? That’ll need some sophisticated technological developments, but I can imagine that it could happen in the near future. But micro displays in contact lenses? Apparently so. Check out the link. Gizmodo – Reality-Augmenting Terminator Vision Contact Lenses Nearly Here (They’re in This Bunny’s Eye)

  • Halfway?

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    Unusually I’ve not blogged in 11 days. Actually, that’s not entirely true – I’ve been photo blogging (moblogging?) to Flickr. I’ve had a bit of a break at the end of the summer & we’ve been taking the kids on lots of daytrips, sending photos to Flickr & comments to Twitter as we go. I…

  • The brain has crumple zones?

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    The brain’s sulci seem to play a role in physical damage limitation. A study modelled the effects of impact on normal brains and gyri and sulci free brains. The smooth brains were more vulnerable. Links: Wired article Ho J, Kleiven S. (2009). Can sulci protect the brain from traumatic injury?, J Biomech. Aug 11, epub…

  • Desire

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    I just got back from a fairly tough run. Tough because it was a two hour run at the end of a long week of running, because I’m getting fatigued, because my lower legs feel like they’re made of wood, & because it was raining & I had a brutal headwind on the way out…