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A Satellite Eye on Mount Ruapehu : Image of the Day: Scientists use sensors the ground and in space to keep a watchful eye

A Satellite Eye on Mount Ruapehu : Image of the Day: Scientists use sensors the ground and in space to keep a watchful eye on an active volcano in New Zealand that is popular among skiers.
Source: nasa.gov

John Kay - I am Scottish, British and European and happy to remain so

John Kay - I am Scottish, British and European and happy to remain so
Source: johnkay.com

Toilet Twinning: Help bring clean water and safe sanitation to the world's poorest people by linking your loo with a latrine

Toilet Twinning: Help bring clean water and safe sanitation to the world's poorest people by linking your loo with a latrine in Africa or Asia.
Source: toilettwinning.org

Hundreds protest at Ffos-y-Fran opencast mine in Merthyr - BBC News: Hundreds of climate activists stage a protest at the

Hundreds protest at Ffos-y-Fran opencast mine in Merthyr - BBC News: Hundreds of climate activists stage a protest at the UK's largest opencast mine in Merthyr Tydfil.
Source: bbc.co.uk

"Noel Edmonds is a game show host, famous for Britain’s version of Deal or No Deal. As far as I can tell, he has no medical

"Noel Edmonds is a game show host, famous for Britain’s version of Deal or No Deal. As far as I can tell, he has no medical or scientific qualifications at all. This unfortunately has not stopped him from using his celebrity status to offer dubious medical advice via his Twitter feed. Such is the world...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

Differences in incomes of physicians in the United States by race and sex: observational study: Objectives To estimate

Differences in incomes of physicians in the United States by race and sex: observational study: Objectives To estimate differences in annual income of physicians in the United States by race and sex adjusted for characteristics of physicians and practices. Design Cross sectional survey study. Setting...
Source: bmj.com

Survive On Call - A QI Project to Improve Access to Hospital Clinical Guidelines Robert Penders. Mark Mallet. BMJ Quality

Survive On Call - A QI Project to Improve Access to Hospital Clinical Guidelines Robert Penders. Mark Mallet. BMJ Quality Improvement Reports.
Source: bmj.com

Just finished reading 'not exactly: in praise of vagueness' by Kees Van Deemter. Fantastic concepts and well explained but

Just finished reading 'not exactly: in praise of vagueness' by Kees Van Deemter. Fantastic concepts and well explained but I found it really hard going. He seemed to want to dive in to all the logic, theoretical background, and notation of the topic but then it would have felt more like a textbook. ...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Just read Sapiens by Yuval Harari. Sparkling account and interesting perspective of the history of humankind. Full of stories.

Just read Sapiens by Yuval Harari. Sparkling account and interesting perspective of the history of humankind. Full of stories. Learnt about Montezuma, learnt a lot about the agricultural revolution, the affluence of hunter-gatherers, and a lot about our disregard for other animals. Basically we haven't...
Source: amazon.co.uk

3D Printed Bone Replacements Made Using Natural Bone and Plastic |: At Johns Hopkins University researchers have created

3D Printed Bone Replacements Made Using Natural Bone and Plastic |: At Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a recipe for making material that can be used to 3D print new bones. Unlike most previous attempts at
Source: medgadget.com

Improving clinical handover: Development of a web-based intensive care unit consultation system with structured reply generation

Improving clinical handover: Development of a web-based intensive care unit consultation system with structured reply generation Jasperine Ka-yee Ho. BMJ Quality Improvement Reports.
Source: bmj.com

The Emerging Diabetes Online Community: Diabetes self-management is complex and demanding, and isolation and burnout are

The Emerging Diabetes Online Community: Diabetes self-management is complex and demanding, and isolation and burnout are common experiences. The Internet provides opportunities for people with diabetes to connect with one another to address these challenges. The aims of this paper are to introduce ......
Source: nih.gov

Jeremy Hunt doesn’t understand junior doctors. He co-wrote a book on how to dismantle the NHS | Frankie Boyle: Frankie

Jeremy Hunt doesn’t understand junior doctors. He co-wrote a book on how to dismantle the NHS | Frankie Boyle: Frankie Boyle: The health secretary’s name is so redolent of upper-class brutality he belongs in a Martin Amis book where working-class people are called Dave Rubbish
Source: theguardian.com

Rising Suicide Rates: According to a new CDC study, suicide rates jumped sharply in the U.S., particularly among women and

Rising Suicide Rates: According to a new CDC study, suicide rates jumped sharply in the U.S., particularly among women and Native Americans.
Source: theatlantic.com

The man who studies the spread of ignorance : How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate

The man who studies the spread of ignorance : How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon. Georgina Kenyon.
Source: bbc.com

In Privacy Versus Security, End-to-End Encryption Is Definitely Winning: Viber and WhatsApp have switched it on to protect

In Privacy Versus Security, End-to-End Encryption Is Definitely Winning: Viber and WhatsApp have switched it on to protect 1.7 billion users worldwide
Source: ieee.org

Tell big brands: stop rainforest destruction: Big brands like PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson & Colgate are still using rainforest-destroying

Tell big brands: stop rainforest destruction: Big brands like PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson & Colgate are still using rainforest-destroying palm oil. We have to force them to stop before the Indonesian rainforest is ablaze again.
Source: greenpeace.org.uk

Inspiring read. Naomi Klein. This changes everything. A tirade against the very inconvenient truth that climate change

Inspiring read. Naomi Klein. This changes everything. A tirade against the very inconvenient truth that climate change is ultimately due to capitalism. A destructive capitalism that extracts from nature recklessly thinking growth can be without limit on a finite planet. However, the book ends with...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Skin cancer: Pair of drugs 'eliminate 20% of tumours' - BBC News: A fifth of people with advanced melanoma have no sign

Skin cancer: Pair of drugs 'eliminate 20% of tumours' - BBC News: A fifth of people with advanced melanoma have no sign of tumours in their body after treatment with a pair of immunotherapy drugs, a study shows.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Meta-Analysis: Metformin Should Still Be First-Line Diabetes Therapy, Even with Newer Drugs Available: By Amy Orciari Herman

Meta-Analysis: Metformin Should Still Be First-Line Diabetes Therapy, Even with Newer Drugs Available: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD Evidence from a new meta-analysis "supports current guidelines with metformin as the recommended first-line...
Source: jwatch.org