No – for once I am not sounding off about the dangers of wireless (wifi) communication – instead I am directing you to a paper published by the National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy, a non-profit based in Washington, D.C. 'whose mission is to reconcile legal …
Socks…..
A brief - and now that the big thaw has arrived - probably somewhat irrelevant post about the wonders of good socks. I don't mean the three-pairs-in-a-pack for £2 that you get in Tesco – I am talking about seriously expensive, thick, wooly, high tech hiking socks. I know I do …
How peanut flour became a drug….
This weekend's newsletter carries a report on the Cambridge Peanut Allergy Clinic that I went to visit last month. The clinic was set up by Dr Andy Clark and his colleagues as a result of their successful 2014 trial showing that the immune systems of peanut allergic children …
A brief dental update……
For those of you who were riveted by my tales of derring do in the fine lakeside town of Konstanz in December.... I have just been back for the next stage in my treatment which consisted of the fitting of three new, albeit temporary, crowns onto three of my new implants. This …
We all worry about climate change but who worries about biodiversity?
Currently we are all panicking about plastic and rising temperatures, but, as Geoff Tansey points out in an interesting blog, do we worry enough about the soil and soil biodiversity? Is that not as, if not more, important than climate change? Healthy soils depends on their …