Saturday, September 9, 2017

Odds and ends

'No fire risk' with new lithium batteries - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41187824

Brain cell therapy 'promising' for Parkinson's disease - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39552264

First hints Parkinson's can be stopped - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40814250

Experts excited by brain 'wonder-drug' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39641123


Spiral drawing test detects signs of Parkinson's - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41176738

The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You 1965 

https://youtu.be/KmactMIhrRM

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Odds and ends

Rossini Forwarded by Lakshman Karalliedde

Why people think Germans are so efficient -

How the demand for sand is killing rivers - 


BBC 100 Women: Nine things you didn't know were invented by women - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-40923649

How one girl's illness changed what a nation eats - 


Monday, September 4, 2017

Odds and ends


Karnazes became increasingly interested in his own Hellenic heritage as he researched the feats of one Pheidippides, the messenger who, some 2,500 years ago, ran from Athens to Sparta to enlist aid in repelling the invading Persians.

He then ran back to the field of Marathon — where the name comes from — where battle took place.

He finally scarpered back to Athens to announce the Greek victory: ‘a single inspired athletic endeavour’ of 153 miles of continuous running.

Pheidippides then dropped dead of exhaustion at the Acropolis.

Pheidippides was the original Marathon Man, and Karnazes sees himself as a kind of reincarnation. ‘I was Greek and running was something that brought with it great pride. I saw no higher calling.’