Leasey says I should be able to come up with something “dry and witty” to go with this. When I saw the X-ray, the best I could do was “ouch“.

Having listened to two radio discussions about this on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning respectively, I wanted to ‘Blog at greater length about this story, but I haven’t the time at the moment. I wanted to include a few links for the frighteningly large number of friends (and relatives) I have who might be interested, […]

Teenage pregnancy rates in Britain continue at more-or-less the same depressingly high level they’ve been at since the 70s. The BBC covers the question of why. Whenever there’s a debate about this you get the usual answers: on the Left concerned types talk about how more sex education is needed; on the Right concerned types […]

In Singapore, before you can have maternity leave, it seems you need procreation leave.

Not making eye contact seems to help children to think.

Ben Goldacre went to medical school with Hind (the same medical school I dropped out of, in fact). For a while Ben and Hind shared a student house, where he took a keen interest in the cultivation of tropical plants. Ben also once edited a piece I wrote for the Oxford Student to the point […]

Gor, blimey!

Please don’t ask me how I came to be browsing “www.pacemakerclub.com“. Running down the right-hand side of their front page they have links to their readers’ emails, to which other readers can reply. Each link is the title of the respective message. Along with “Want to use heart monitor when running” (1 reply) and “Weird […]