Saturday, November 1, 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

Drone of traffic and chicks.

Chicks can't hear their mothers over the constant drone of traffic 
Research has shown the high volume of modern city life makes it harder for nestlings to hear their parents. This puts them at risk of going hungry. And makes them deaf to danger from predators.
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30 October 2014

Can't pee straight?

Now there's a device which improves men's aim AND helps detect prostate cancer and diabetes
Aim-Straight, the brainchild of British pair Michael Shelton and Peter Maxwell, contains reagents which react to blood, protein and glucose in urine, changing colour to alert to the signs of diabetes and prostate cancer.
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29 October 2014

Goodbye to Golden goodbyes in the NHS, UK.

'Golden goodbyes' for NHS managers to be clawed back if they return to health service ...but only if they don't get a job for a year
Treasury minister Danny Alexander vowed to end the revolving door of highly-paid administrators handed golden goodbyes worth thousands of pounds before walking straight into another role.
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29 October 2014

Pathologists can conduct full post mortems using a computer mouse.

Sandwell Council in the West Midlands will become the first in Britain to offer revolutionary digital autopsies for free (an example is pictured).
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29 October 2014

Footballer 'died' in his sleep for 25 MINUTES after cardiac arrest

Louie Shields, 23, from Blackpool, is now raising money for charity after his heart stopped while he slept, causing him to be placed in an induced coma for four days.
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29 October 2014

Thursday, October 30, 2014

How we are WRONG about everything.

A new survey by IpsosMORI shows the public's views on think immigration, teenage pregnancies, ageing and unemployment are all much higher than reality.
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30 October 2014