I’ve been to a meeting this morning with the newly-appointed toxicology consultant at our hospital. He’s setting up what will be only the third toxicology service in the State. Our area is a pretty good place for one, seeing as apparently we make more calls to the national poisons information centre than anywhere else...
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I’m enjoying the #stupidscientology hashtag on Twitter, which follows the complaint laid by the Cult Church of Scientology about Councillor John Dixon in Cardiff, Wales. He now faces an inquiry about his tweet of some time last year:
I didn’t know the Scientologists had a church on Tottenham Court Road. Just hurried past in case...
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I’m of a mind to be a little controversial today. We’re all keen to stop people killing themselves – especially young people. We’re told therefore that we need to enhance mental health services for the youth, and hence the “Headspace” initiative in Australia, which gets bags of money and flash premises and great press…
And...
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This morning a friend sent me a link to a story on ABC from the 2nd of June 2010 about the EVestG, a new device developed at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, for “electrovestibulography”. This device has been developed by Brian Lithgow, an adjunct professor of Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering, and Jayashri Kulkarni,...
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This post is specially for a friend who asked for an explanation of this article about the relation of thalamic dopamine D2 receptor densities to psychometric creativity shorn of big words I’m thinking that each paragraph may well degenerate into wordiness (hey, it’s me) but in the first sentence or two per...
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