Which way do I go George? Which way do I go?
A while back...let me amend that, a couple of years ago I was caught up in an interesting debate about how migrating animals – in this instance birds and eels (how it was narrowed down to just those I don’t ...

Such neglect...
It seems that my last entry on this blog was way back toward the end of summer...hmm, I think I must change this. Life has a way of distracting you from things such as a blog - employment changes, moves, ...

Just when you thought it was safe to travel to India...
In the latest edition of the medical journal Lancet: Infectious Diseases, an article details the detection of a new superbug. The culprit is a gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae which has shown resistance to most known antibiotics so far with the exception of ...

The "Gay Gene" Identified?
 On the 7th of this month a provisional research article was published online in BMC Genetics. BMC or Biomedical Central is a large publisher of open-access, peer-reviewed online journals of which BMC Genetics is one of their many journals. ...

Deradicalization in the World's Prisons
A comprehensive joint British and U.S. report has detailed research addressing de-radicalization in prisons. An investigation of many programs in 15 different countries has led to some suprising and unsurprising findings. Prisons are so-called breeding grounds for the recruitment of ...

Perceptual Bias, Health Risks and Monkey Spheres
The “it can’t happen to me” phenomenon is often something we experience as well as seeing it in others. We seem to downplay risks involving ourselves in many respects and not simply in just health areas. However, for whatever reason ...

Use a Love Song - Get the Digits? The French Say Yes.
In the latest edition of the journal Psychology of Music, French researchers studied the effects that music could have on female receptiveness. The researchers put female volunteers in a room with some music playing. Some females were exposed to a ...

For men crime doesn't pay in the eyes of justice...
Justice is blind or at least that is the concept we'd all like to think is at work. However, a recent study by psychologists at Stockholm University found that justice isn't blind at all, well, at least not the people ...

For Those Who Died To Protect This Country...
Today is an important day. It is a day we take time to appreciate those who have responded to their country's request to take up arms, defend it and made the ultimate sacrifice. We should never forget what they have ...

What's in your wallet? Forget that, what's on your copier?
I had this video forwarded to me and found it a bit disturbing as I was unaware of this problem myself. Now I'm trying to think of all the things I've made copies of with these type of copiers.