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Monthly Archives: September 2005
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30-Sep-05FDA roundabout
30-Sep-05Two months in the job, and the chief of the FDA has gone.
After only two months as commissioner, but 30 years at the organisation, Lester Crawford, head of the Food and Drug Administration, abruptly resigned last Friday. He sent an email message to FDA staff members saying, “It is time, at the age of [...]
Films that should never be made
29-Sep-05The Times Higher Educational Supplement asks academics for fact-free revisionist history films that Hollywood might create. [subscriber only] My own personal favourite is this:
Die Hard Russia
Christopher Read, reader in 20th century European history, Warwick University
US neo-con agent Rasputin (Johnny Depp) rescues the gorgeous but empty-headed Tsarina (Sadie Frost) and her unresponsive but decent husband, Tsar [...]
Darwin enlists parent power
29-Sep-05Parents in the US are taking intelligent design to court.
PARENTS in a rural Pennsylvania town are mounting the first legal test of the controversial theory of the origin of life known as intelligent design.
Eleven parents are suing the Dover school board for requiring teachers to cast doubt on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and to [...]
Naked Scientists
29-Sep-05If you are interested in science, you could do worse than visit the naked scientists.
Subscribe to their podcast as well.
Terrorists who like fluffy animals
28-Sep-05In the past month terrorists have attacked Oxford University and the family of a GlaxoSmithKline employee.
In July, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claimed responsibility for an arson attack on an Oxford University boathouse which caused an estimated £500,000 worth of damage.
In the assault, 24 rowing boats were destroyed and much of the interior of the [...]
MMR – creeping back slowly
27-Sep-05According to this report:
The proportion of youngsters receiving the triple MMR jab in England increased slightly last year, the first rise in uptake in almost a decade.
London still has worryingly low rates.
Another great legacy of the leading scientific thinker Ken Livingstone.
Another confluence visit. The path to it was described by another visitor “as a path that would have challenged even the late great Thora Hird in a Souped Up Turbo Stannah Stairlift”.
These were a bigger problem. I calculate I lost about 1ml of blood in the violence they inflicted on my person.
Conan the epidemiologist
25-Sep-05Here’s a fascinating story about a plague in a virtual fantasy gaming environment.
The dungeon boss, called Hakkar the Soulflayer, cast a spell called Corrupted Blood. The powerful spell caused about 280 damage points to anyone it hit, and spread to other members of the attacking party as well. Such powerful spell attacks aren’t unusual in [...]