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Junior NHS doctors have it easy now, or do they? - cartoon: Why older doctors complaining about a possible strike by their

Junior NHS doctors have it easy now, or do they? - cartoon: Why older doctors complaining about a possible strike by their younger colleagues might be in need of a reality check
Source: theguardian.com

How People Living at Earth's Extremes Reveal the Genome's Best Tricks: Evolution has sculpted the human genome to cope with

How People Living at Earth's Extremes Reveal the Genome's Best Tricks: Evolution has sculpted the human genome to cope with Earth’s toughest climates, inadvertently pointing geneticists towards medically important genes.
Source: theatlantic.com

Here are the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015: Over 2,000 learning professionals from around the world from both education

Here are the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015: Over 2,000 learning professionals from around the world from both education and enterprises contributed to the 9th Annual Survey of Learning Tools. Very many thanks to all those who took the time t...
Source: c4lpt.co.uk

Science leaders make investment case - BBC News: Leading figures in the scientific community argue for a lift in public

Science leaders make investment case - BBC News: Leading figures in the scientific community argue for a lift in public research spending to boost the British economy.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Developing a website in Comic Sans - a dyslexia-friendly site consistent with equality and diversity training. Thanks for

Developing a website in Comic Sans - a dyslexia-friendly site consistent with equality and diversity training. Thanks for the challenge Simon! Here is the work in progress. It turns out that Comic Sans is not entirely web friendly (who'd have thought) but the team at www.comicneue.com have sorted out...
Source: wikipedia.org

Turkish man dies after spending 47 years in a state hospital: Hospital staff say a 70-year-old man who died after nearly

Turkish man dies after spending 47 years in a state hospital: Hospital staff say a 70-year-old man who died after nearly half a century in a Turkish ward stayed there ‘because he had nowhere else to go’
Source: theguardian.com

Prevalence and compensation of academic leaders, professors, and trustees on publicly traded US healthcare company boards

Prevalence and compensation of academic leaders, professors, and trustees on publicly traded US healthcare company boards of directors: cross sectional study Timothy S Anderson. Chester B Good. Walid F Gellad.
Source: bmj.com

Computer-Aided Detection for Mammography Seems to Offer Few Benefits NEJM Journal Watch.

Computer-Aided Detection for Mammography Seems to Offer Few Benefits NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org

The UK now gets more power from renewables than coal | ExtremeTech: Taken together with nuclear power, the country is now

The UK now gets more power from renewables than coal | ExtremeTech: Taken together with nuclear power, the country is now generating almost half of its power with low- or no-carbon technologies.
Source: extremetech.com

New Zealand to turn Kermadec into vast marine reserve - BBC News: New Zealand reveals plans to turn an area of the South

New Zealand to turn Kermadec into vast marine reserve - BBC News: New Zealand reveals plans to turn an area of the South Pacific ocean about the size of France into a marine reserve.
Source: bbc.co.uk

A Breast Cancer Surgeon Who Keeps Challenging the Status Quo - NYTimes.com

A Breast Cancer Surgeon Who Keeps Challenging the Status Quo - NYTimes.com
Source: nytimes.com

Irish marchers demand referendum on legalising abortion: Thousands gather in capital to put pressure on government to call

Irish marchers demand referendum on legalising abortion: Thousands gather in capital to put pressure on government to call referendum on liberalising law after next general election
Source: theguardian.com

Facebook Takes a Step Into Education Software reports the New York Times.

Facebook Takes a Step Into Education Software reports the New York Times.
Source: nytimes.com

Tools for illuminating brain function make their own light: A variant on the optogenetics technique gives neuroscientists

Tools for illuminating brain function make their own light: A variant on the optogenetics technique gives neuroscientists the choice of activating neurons with light or an externally supplied chemical.
Source: eurekalert.org

Junior doctors' strike receives overwhelming support, poll shows: Patients and medical profession in favour of action over

Junior doctors' strike receives overwhelming support, poll shows: Patients and medical profession in favour of action over proposed contract that could cut pay by 30% and force junior doctors to work more antisocial shifts
Source: theguardian.com

Junior doctors: why are you protesting?: Doctors and medical students are set to protest on Monday evening in London against

Junior doctors: why are you protesting?: Doctors and medical students are set to protest on Monday evening in London against proposed changes to trainee’s contracts. Will you be there?
Source: theguardian.com

FDA Approves Two New Treatments for Diabetes NEJM Journal Watch.

FDA Approves Two New Treatments for Diabetes NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org

Chemistry at heart of VW emissions cheating | Chemistry World

Chemistry at heart of VW emissions cheating | Chemistry World
Source: rsc.org

When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk - NYTimes.com

When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk - NYTimes.com
Source: nytimes.com

Single layer perovskite sheet rises to the fore | Chemistry World

Single layer perovskite sheet rises to the fore | Chemistry World
Source: rsc.org