Year: 2009

  • Drug testing

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    This is why drug testing scares me. A recent study, summarised in this slowtwitch.com article, demonstrated that athletes ingesting a mere 5ug of the nandrolone precursor 19-norandrostenedione (NOR) tested positive for this anabolic steroid using existing procedures. That’s a tiny amount. It’s a trace amount. It’s an amount that you wouldn’t ingest to improve your…

  • Finishing up?

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    It’s been a little quiet recently as we come to the end of the academic year. The rest of the university finished and shut up shop ages ago, or so it feels. In medicine we’re in a revision week this week and students will be hitting the final first year exams next week. The other…

  • Tweet tweet

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    One blogs a lot less when one uses Twitter. This is so short it should be a tweet.

  • Lightlane

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    Finally someone found a use for lasers – showing cars how much space you need to give a cyclist! With a lot of winter mileage due this year I’d definitely buy one of these. Drivers seeing something different would be woken up for a moment, if nothing else. It looks like it gives a clear…

  • Wired: The Nike Experiment

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    I don’t run with music, but a lot of the information about data collection and motivation in this article about Nike+, Apple, and running sits really well with my own experiences. Read the article: Wired Magazine, The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics.

  • Llanelli 10K

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    I raced again today, running at Llanelli, this time in the annual 10k race on the coastal path. The race report would be rather short, like the race: I ran hard from the start, trying to maintain a 5:45 min/mile pace (a bit of a big ask). I pretty much kept my place, if not…

  • Friday Thoughts

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    I’ve just started to notice that I don’t get excited by much or nervous about anything anymore. I remember that I used to but I’m not sure when this change occurred. Maybe it was a gradual thing. Two current cases for this: i’m racing again this weekend but I never have any nerves in the…

  • Layar: First Mobile Augmented Reality Browser Is Your Real Life HUD

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    See? This is what I’ve been talking about. Link: Gizmodo: Layar

  • Game over, man!

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    So that’s it, the embryology lecture series has finished. The final result of the quiz series was a draw, with the boys winning the final lecture quiz to level the series at 5:5. Given the really simple nature of the first couple of questions (and my awesome animations that I created to teach neurulation) I…

  • Basic anatomy ‘baffles Britons’

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    There’s an article on the BBC website this morning covering a study that tested the lay population on their knowledge of anatomy. “A team at King’s College London found public understanding of basic anatomy has not improved since a similar survey was conducted 40 years ago. “Less than 50% of the more than 700 people…