Posted by Terrence Collis on 23 May 2012 in General interest
What do racehorse handicappers, bridge players and weather forecasters have in common? Well apparently, they have very high risk intelligence.
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Posted by Andrew Wadge on 17 May 2012 in General interest
Some of the public safety films I saw on TV as a child had such a profound effect on me that they’re still as vivid now and they were then – electrocution, stranger danger and the perils of crossing the road. The list could go on. And although public health campaigns today don’t rely on giving us nightmares they can be just as effective in changing people’s behaviour.
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Posted by Andrew Wadge on 11 May 2012 in Science in Government
The big news in the move towards making publicly-funded research open and free, is the recruitment of Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales. He is tasked with helping the Government deliver its commitment to make all taxpayer funded academic research in Britain available online.
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Posted by Terrence Collis on 04 May 2012 in Science, safety and health
After reading that the chances of James Bond dodging the 4,662 bullets fired at him during his film career and surviving is close to zero, I came to the conclusion that the storylines might not be based on reality and certainly aren’t evidence-based. But after recovering from that shocking revelation, my eye was drawn across the page of the New Scientist to a story titled ‘Bug wash’.
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Posted by Andrew Wadge on 26 April 2012 in New initiatives
The topic of rising food prices seems to have been in the headlines almost daily for the past few years, but the recent change in tone shows that these increases are now hitting the consumer. Today’s headline is that over the past year the number of emergency food parcels that Britain’s leading food bank is giving out has doubled – a worrying trend.
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Posted by Terrence Collis on 23 April 2012 in General interest
‘Thou shall commit adultery’ – what a different world it would be if we were to follow the 10 commandments of the Wicked Bible. This typo in the 1631 edition of the Bible is still a classic example of how the omission of a word can completely change the meaning of a sentence. A lesson the Mail on Sunday would do well to revisit!
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