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- 21 May → My respect for the BBC is starting to wain. This morning, the news was all about how WiFi ‘may‘ kill me (I like to exaggerate - it connects with The Sun readers better ;-) ). Now this afternoon it’s not. Make up your mind. ( 0 )
Sunshine or No Sunshine?
I wish researchers would make up their bloody minds about our exposure to sunshine: in one breathe they say, “Oooh, sunshine is bad. It gives you skin cancer and you’ll die, so stay out of the sun“. Then they say, “Oooh, sunshine is good. It provides you with Vitamin D that helps protect [...]
- 02 Feb → Body identity integrity disorder (BIID) is one wacky disorder. Some people would give their right arm to have two legs (that’s the non-BIID peeps), others would give their left leg, not to. Very strange. ( 2 )
- 20 Dec → Prevent catching a cold by being happy. So that’s why I don’t get colds very often - I’m a happy, shiny, smiley people so am a natural cold buster. :-) ( 0 )
Pronto Pronto
How’s this for a bit of South African enginuity: super quick slick condoms brought to you by Prontocondoms out of Stellenbosch. Now you’re probably wondering, what the hell am I talking about. Well, these enterprising chappies from Stellenbosch have devised a method of putting on a condom super quick without any fuss. Check out the [...]
Saffer Brings Veggies to Life
This story, in yesterday’s Guardian, is just mind-blowing. A South African doctor in Springs discovered that the common sleeping pill zolpidem can reverse serious brain damage and wake up patients in persistent vegetative states!
The hospital ward sister, Lucy Hughes, was periodically concerned that involuntary spasms in Louis’s left arm, that resulted in him tearing at [...]
- 30 Jul → Worried about piling on the pounds? Well, you should be. Apparently people are getting too fat for X-Rays and face the risk of misdiagnosis, particularily with Ultrasound. ( 0 )
- 19 May → I’ve finally found the real reason I don’t get sick very often… it’s from all the soil I ate voluntarily (as an inquisitive hungry toddler) and involuntarily (stuck at the bottom of a “pile-on”) as a kid living in South Africa. A quote from the article:- “A compound isolated from South African soil samples offers potency against all the big hospital killers.” That explains a lot. ( 0 )
Run in Peace Wally
I was quite sad to hear about the passing away of the great Wally Hayward - one of South Africa’s and the world’s greatest ultra long distance runners - at the ripe age of 97.
You’re only likely to know about Wally Hayward if you’re South African, or have a great interest in road running, particularily [...]
- 25 Apr → The other day I whipped up a quick little Fag-O-Meter for mum using Javascript and prototype.js. No, this isn’t some homophobic tool it’s a quick little page to help mum monitor how much money she’s saving by not smoking. ( 0 )
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