It’s all very well to vanish off to a conference and put faces to names… but that can’t help with the important questions, like What does the internet think of you?. Fortunately, this little app can tell you. Type in your name, and it’ll do the Google version of a genetic fingerprint. In the interests […]
Category: Curios
Old-School Surgical Instruments
Fascinating, but perhaps not best viewed while eating… […]
Swine Flu enters X-Files Territory
It was only a matter of time before people started to come up with “evidence” that swine flu is all a hoax cooked up to allow the lizard illuminati Bildeberg New World Order freemasons to take over the world… and it’s happening now – this time courtesy of someone using the same name as a BMJ […]
Ask a Homeopath a Question…
The Guardian has a feature in its “Ethical Living” feature called “You Ask, They Answer”. This provides a forum in which readers can put questions to firms, people and so on. This week, the subject was Neal’s Yard Remedies, purveyor of… um… “remedies” to the kind of people who go in for aromatherapy and homeopathy […]
Musical Swine Flu!
This does exactly what it says on the tin. Stephan Zielinski has set swine flu to music: The algorithm I used is a bit complicated, but just in case you’re curious: since the gene is expressed as a surface protein antibodies can sense, it’s considered as a string of amino acids. Each beat corresponds to […]
Irish Euthanasia Lecture Cancelled
A curious story from the Irish Times: a lecture by Len Doyal on euthanasia had to be cancelled after disruption from protesters: he’s now complained to the President. The protesters apparently shouted obscenities and, er, the Rosary. There are more details here. In the meantime, I just can’t help myself: Thanks to Richard Ashcroft and […]
What does the Press Think about HPV Vaccination?
It would seem that it depends what country you’re in. I suspect it’s only a matter of time before someone suggests that it’s sales, rather than science, that determines newspapers’ editorial policy. Heaven forbid. […]
An Easter Sperm Story: The Defeat of Death
This from the bioethics.net blog: A woman’s 21-year-old son dies in a Texas bar fight. The bereaved mom wants the son’s clearly virile and tenacious genes to live on in the next generation and fights to have his sperm collected and stored so that someone may carry his seed. She says, on the one hand, […]
The Vagina is Full of AIDS!
I’ve just been pointed in the direction of this YouTube gem, which ostensibly demonstrates why condoms don’t offer protection against Aids. It’s a little experiment involving a glass, a tea-strainer, and some out-of-date soya milk. The rest you can work out for yourselves. It has to be a piss-take, doesn’t it? (Actually, I’m not so sure. […]
Cancer LOL!
Cancer’s the sort of thing in respect of which a lot of people are very, very earnest indeed. It’s a pleasure, then, to discover Cancerous Capers, a blog about cancer by someone with cancer, that is light and funny and… well, not earnest: I’m Jamie Ross. I’m twenty, and I was an English student until […]