The question of free will is still hotly debated. On the one hand, we clearly experience ourselves as able to make choices and freely act on them. If you fancy some crisps, you can choose to walk into a shop,… Read More ›
Health
Limit the iPhone 13 Pro refresh rate (dizziness)
I noticed something strange yesterday. On my iPad Air (2020) I am not suffering dizziness when scrolling up and down, but I am on my iPhone 13 Pro. I initially wondered if it was the screen size, but then I… Read More ›
Bees are cleverer than some humans
If only some humans were bees…
Overwhelming support for masks
Make me wonder why so many of us give those who have a problem with masks so much attention. They cannot rationalise reality or offer evidence of why they don’t want to wear masks, but still we all seem to… Read More ›
Talk to someone
Very moving and eloquently explained with a very simple message.
Nintendo Ring Fit: 18 months later my shoulder is still bust
Despite following every instruction and using an easy setting I noticed some pain in my left shoulder / top of my arm and so I stopped for a few days. The trick for any pain is to avoid exercising the… Read More ›
Consumption of coffee and tea and risk of developing stroke, dementia, and poststroke dementia
Our study showed that there was an interaction between coffee and tea that associated with stroke and dementia. There are several mechanisms whereby the combination of coffee and tea may be related to stroke and dementia. First, coffee is the… Read More ›
Did We Underestimate The First Known Outbreak of Bubonic Plague?
Historian Peter Sarris from the University of Cambridge says historians and archeologists need to work together with geneticists and environmental scientists to fully understand the scope and scale of ancient disease outbreaks – including, in this particular example, the arrival… Read More ›
‘Most people in the NHS, they are sad’
“NHS staff have run off adrenalin for the past year and that adrenalin is running out. We’re all coming to the point where we’re all just crashing and burning out.” Emily Moorhouse is one of thousands of NHS staff who… Read More ›
Twist your hand around
A few years back I ended up having some injections in my elbow and multiple appointments because I was really struggling with continual pain. The decision was made to operate, even though this was by no means a certain cure,… Read More ›
