Some good news for the country. We are swapping chemistry graduates for media studies graduates. Our science may lag behind the rest of the world in future, but boy can we write a stunning critique on the importance of Toy Story 2 in the contemporary world:
Top UK scientists – including three Nobel Prizewinners [...]
Max Steuer at the London School of Economics diagnoses a modern day disease in British Universities:
Practitioners of this type of “pretend”social science try to make out that there is no such thing as knowledge, and that all opinions are equally valid. The claim is that all we have is “talk”, though they prefer the word [...]
Obesity is often portrayed as an American disease than has spread across the Atlantic to Britain, confining itself to the appropriately named anglosphere. Perhaps we could be called Anglosphericals?
These stereotypes are enjoyed in France, where French children picture fast food and fat people when thinking about America.
Now it seems the French too, are dealing with [...]
Some limited research into the changing of a lightbulb in the NHS.
I suspect similar stories can be found with academic institutions and large companies. Any other examples?
Despite the continuing activist lobbying about MMR vaccine, which perhaps reached its peak with Channel Five’s Hear the Silence film in late 2003, the evidence of an association with autism continues to be extremely weak. Now even that evidence, which holds Wakefield’s MMR-autism theory together, seems to under pressure:
The O’Leary study, co- authored by [...]
The Independent has some useful tips for sleeping, suitable for blog readers suffering from sleep deprivation. One of the tips is “Avoid troubling news right before bed. Violence in newspapers or on television may bother some people, making it difficult to fall asleep. Try a good book instead”.
Health Warning: Staying up late reading blogs [...]
Norm refers us to an article about obesity which states that:obese people who engage in at least moderate levels of physical activity have around one half the mortality rate of sedentary people who maintain supposedly ideal weight levels.
Fair enough, but I suspect that an important factor in the current rise in obesity is linked [...]
The BBC struggle with the mathematical concept of a pair, leading to a horrific encounter with four-eyed frogs.
In attempt to make money using Google’s Adsense system, George Galloway’s website sends an unexpected political message:
Next, he’ll be advertising John Malkovich films!
UPDATE: 27/4/2004 Gorgeous George is now advertising low cost hotels in Glasgow. How sad.