Frank Shufflebotham writing about the 14 cases of lead poisoning he cam across in young men training for the British Army in 1915. Of the 14 men, 10 were pottery workers, 3 were house painters and 1 was a plumber. Symptoms started to show from 3-7 weeks after mobilisation or enlistment, and Shufflebotham suggested that… Read More
Research Paper Title Cricket Fast Bowling Workload Patterns as Risk Factors for Tendon, Muscle, Bone and Joint Injuries. Objective To assess workload-related risk factors for injuries to particular tissue types in cricket fast bowlers. Design 235 fast bowlers who bowled in 14,600 player innings over a period of 15 years were followed in a prospective… Read More
Treadmill desks were supposed to be the answer to declining productivity among office-bound employees. However, research suggests they do not work. A 12-week study by the University of Oregan has found they only offer a negligible boost to well-being. Although, luckily, help is at hand in the form of research from New York University which… Read More
In this article, in the New Scientist, Jan and Mat Zalasiewicz discuss war from the perspective of mother nature, specifically the geological legacy which we have left for future generations to ‘discover’. Verdun, The Somme, Passchendaele, Gallipoli – the battles of the first world war have become bywords for death, destruction and human misery. Historically, they are just the tip… Read More
I am an avid reader of the New Scientist and have a continuous thirst for learning new things. Last week the New Scientist combined the two with an article on learning strategies. Yesterday, I highlighted some of the “most common methods to boost learning [which] are surprisingly useless”, as noted by the New Scientist (2015,… Read More
I am an avid reader of the New Scientist and have a continuous thirst for learning new things. Last week the New Scientist combined the two with an article on learning strategies. So, as highlighted in the New Scientist (2015, p.32), the “most common methods to boost learning [which] are surprisingly useless”, include: Highlighting and… Read More
By Professor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMC), writing in the AOMCs new report on exercise: Being active has enormous health and well-being benefits. Physical activity is important in the management of long-term diseases, but, it is even more important in the prevention of many other common diseases. I believe that if… Read More
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