Saturday, December 10, 2011

Weekend post - The physics of road safety

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I’m a little obsessed by road safety at the moment. This is partially because a very good friend of mine, a loving and vibrant young wife an...
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Saturday, December 03, 2011

Weekend Post - Is my laptop frying my fertility?”

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The answer is almost certainly not but from the recent press coverage you can be forgiven for thinking otherwise. The BBC published a stor...

Killer bananas

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It’s a fantastic plot for a science fiction, don’t you think? “Revenge of the killer bananas!” However if you believe some people the risk i...
Thursday, December 01, 2011

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This is how statistics should be portrayed.
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Weekend Post - What do modern medicine, flu, ice cream and pirates have in common?

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Here are some dangerous but factual observations. Since the introduction of modern healthcare in Botswana more people than ever before hav...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Weekend Post - We're still alive!

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The world narrowly avoided destruction yet again last week. Asteroid 2005 YU55 sped past the earth at nearly 50,000 km/h coming so close t...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

Weekend Post - Was Einstein right all along?

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In September there was a big fuss, reported all over the world, about an experiment conducted in Italy that suggested that Albert Einstein, ...
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Saturday, November 05, 2011

Weekend Post - We’re all dying

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More people are dying these days than ever before. And that’s a good thing. There was a news story from the BBC last week entitled “Cancer...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Weekend Post - A malaria vaccine?

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Is it possible that we might one day live in a world without malaria? Nobody knows but we’re now a step closer. Last week it was announced...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Weekend Post - Science is critical

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Please forgive the wordplay but science really IS “critical”. I believe it’s critical, in the sense that it’s vitally important, because it ...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Faster than light? No.

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It looks like the the scientists in Italy who thought they found neutrinos travelling faster than light might have made a mistake. The irony...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Weekend Post - Healthier than ever

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A few months I was parking my car at my kid’s school. A young guy approached me as I left the car and asked if he could talk with me. I had ...
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Saturday, October 08, 2011

Weekend Post - Faster than light?

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There might be a revolution in science any moment now. Or maybe not. A few weeks ago Italian scientists said that they thought they’d brok...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Weekend Post - Radiation

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“Radiation” It’s a horrible word, isn’t it? It conjures up images of the burnt victims of Hiroshima, their skin peeling, waiting for radia...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

"Homeopathic Thuggery", from Science-Based Medicine

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Read and be outraged.
Thursday, July 28, 2011

The critical consumer

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Are you critical? It’s one of my favourite words because it has two important meanings. Critical can mean “crucial” and “essential” and we...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

"Pastor Irene is in town". I hope she's leaving soon.

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A story in Mmegi recently announced that "Pastor Irene is in town" and that "The devil is in serious trouble". The stor...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Mmegi - End of the world or just sanity?

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In response to this article in Mmegi regarding the end of the world. I enjoyed your article in Mmegi on 28th March entitled "Is May 2...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Evolution is as true as gravity

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In response to a very uninformed letter to Mmegi, entitled " We have never been gorillas ". ----- Your correspondent, Shine N...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

BBC - Alternative remedies 'dangerous' for kids says report

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A BBC story about the dangers of so-called "alternative remedies" which are, in fact, not remedies at all.