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Avril — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:25:49 +0000

My apologies for the lack of posts, I am helping to organise a Relay for Life in Huntly and that is taking up most of my “free” time. If you are in the North East of Scotland, do come along to the Relay it’s on the 3rd-4th of July 2010 in the School Playing [...]

Science Links May 2010

Avril — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:05:00 +0000

I’ve come across a few good science links lately, if you know of any more feel free to leave a comment below.

Naturally Obsessed – The Making of a Scientist.

This is a one hour documentary about how scientific research works. It follows 3 people in the lab of Dr Lawrence Shapiro in New [...]

Information is Beautiful – Are supplements worth it?

Avril — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:31:54 +0000

I found a fascinating website today called “Information is Beautiful“, in particular I was interested in the post “SnakeOil? Scientific Evidence for Health Food Supplements“. This post is based on HUGE amounts of data and is a lot to take in at first glance, it certainly doesn’t look like a conventional graph.

So what’s [...]

Research Blogging Awards 2010

Avril — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:23:42 +0000

If you are registered on ResearchBlogging and would like to nominate my blog for their 2010 awards I’d be grateful.

If you have your own blog, you can register it here, and watch your number of readers increase.

If you don’t have your own blog but want to read lots of different peoples [...]

Cancer in comics and on TV

Avril — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:38:40 +0000

I have previously written a post on cancer in comic books, I thought I’d write a little more about the subject and tell you about some of the links I have found since I wrote the first post in April 2009.

Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics) is a daily comic based on life [...]