It is early in the year but we have a clubhouse leader for my favourite paper of the year. A higher chocolate consumption has been linked with reduced risks for the development of cardiometabolic disorders.1 The authors’ experience is that chocolate consumption in a hospital environment is a relatively common occurrence, and that gifts from patients…
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STOCK market investors who buy and sell on the flip of a coin might sound irresponsible, but a handful of random traders could be just what markets need to avoid bubbles and subsequent crashes. Financial booms and busts occur when traders all rush to purchase or sell stock just because others around them are. “I…
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Local chemistry teacher James Kennedy has done something very clever – he has given a breakdown of all the chemicals that occur naturally in food. This seems to be somewhat of a pushback to the knee jerk reaction people have when they see lists of ingredients in food and then freak out that it is…
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I first heard of Professor Terry Speed not through our local media which is obsessed with provincial sport stars and bogans but rather through the BBC podcast More or Less which I consider to be compulsory listening. So doing a bit of digging I came across the following video. If you want a quick…
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I have long been a fan of the Science of Sport blog by Ross Tucker and Jonathon Dugass. I am a fan because they take basic hard core science and use it to shoot holes in some of the more controversial topics in sports science. Most notably, they spotted Lance Armstrong as a cheat simply…
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As a biologist, Fleming knew that evolution was inevitable: sooner or later, bacteria would develop defenses against the compounds the nascent pharmaceutical industry was aiming at them. But what worried him was the possibility that misuse would speed the process up. Every inappropriate prescription and insufficient dose given in medicine would kill weak bacteria but…
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Word clouds are intriguing little tools that effectively allow you to look at the frequency distribution of words within a given piece of text. Wofram Alpha the way clever search engine has just released a new function allowing you to generate word clouds for the lyrics of your favourite songs. you simply enter the expression…
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Each year the Ig Nobel committee hand awards to research that in their words – first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology. To give you a sense of what sort of research attracts an Ig…
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