Dalek relaxation

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The weekend is upon us, and for some it is a time to contemplate, meditate and be at one with your inner-self…for others it is just another 48 hours of emergency care. Either way – you will appreciate some Dalek relaxation

Making the invisible, audible

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Occasionally in glorious happenstance we trip across a limpid pool – and tarry a while therein. My most recent sojourn involved a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world.

Time is but a quotient

Mike Cadogan

Euler in 1764 discovered that ℓ^i∏ +1 = ƛ, and therefore closely related to the imaginary numbers. In an illustration of this powerful formula it is clear to visualize that the greater the ƛ, the more one goes around in circles

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Challenging medical trivia to tickle your cerebellar tonsils and whimsy your way to cerebral hibernation for the weekend

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Challenging medical trivia to tickle your cerebellar tonsils and whimsy your way to cerebral hibernation for the weekend

The Four R Rule

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It would be fascinating to run a fly-on-the-wall documentary on life at trolley level in a local Emergency Department. When you’ve been there, done it and survived to watch TV again, the dramatised version served up in your average medical soap is about as true to life as Harry Potter. Someone will just have to come up with ED-trolleycam. The MicroGnome was left under no illusions when struck down with a travel-related infection following a week with the Lab Without Walls in East Timor. He became a victim of the Four R Rule:

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Jedi stocking

Draw near, and gather round the wireless for this very Christmas edition of Funtabulous medical trivia. We celebrate the twelve days of Christmas with an eclectic mix of festive related questions to amuse and bemuse….

Motherhood Reproduction Intercourse

Birth MRI

From conception to delivery…big brother is watching you. Remember the classic 1999 BMJ paper describing the MRI imaging of sexual intercourse? Of course you do… here’s the video.

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Pimpology

As each new labelled generation of students arises, the fallen generation vocalise their lament on the decay of learning, the demise of articulate presentation and the death of inquisitive thought…Bring back pimping…they exclaim

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Cooking with Pooh

On a day of historic destruction we look to provide some more light-hearted medical trivia to ease you into the weekend…with questions on Ayahuasca, Charles Darwin, identical twins and CVS