Health
2023-07-30: Paper notes: How much food tracking during a digital weight management program is enough...?
2023-07-20: Is it worth trying to increase your physical activity if you only have time to even think about it …
2023-07-06: Australia becomes the first country to legalise the use of certain psychedelics in controlled …
2023-06-08: Leutner et al. provide evidence of a link between having obesity and later developing a diagnosed …
2023-05-22: The rise of private GP practices in the UK
2023-04-16: 📚 Finished reading We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba.
2023-04-14: Viewers Can Watch Prince Harry Talk to a Trauma Expert for $33.09 The ‘Give me privacy’ …
2023-03-27: This life expectancy chart from from Peterson-KFF’s Health System Tracker is quite shocking …
2023-02-20: 📚 Finished reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A Van der Kolk.
2023-01-10: Coming soon: the first mainstream UK TV show based on deepfakes
2023-01-04: The Financial Times looks into why the UK’s NHS is in such a disastrous condition at present. …
2022-12-28: Covid-19 mRNA vaccines are weakly associated with Myopericarditis - but not nearly as much as having Covid-19 is
2022-12-20: Mental illness as a 'sane response to an insane world'
2022-11-13: The wellbeing agenda, with its focus on milder problems, can lead to great statistics in a way that …
2022-10-28: Llandudno's lockdown goats are back
2022-10-25: What does the Labour party stand for these days?
2022-10-09: On my way back from a very enjoyable New Scientist Live show, the first IRL one I’ve attended since the scourge of Covid started.
2022-09-14: The polio virus re-emerges in the US
2022-09-09: No paper published yet so tbd, but researchers claim to have developed a smartphone app that can …
2022-08-13: A delightful holiday in Calabria, southern Italy
2022-08-09: Less than 6% of offences reported to the police lead to a charge
2022-08-07: Over here, I wrote about why the majority of England’s Covid-19 deaths are now from vaccinated …
2022-07-15: The UK is too hot and only getting hotter
2022-07-03: The UK's carbon emissions trading scheme actually paid polluters last year
2022-06-29: A new study estimates that Covid-19 vaccines saved 14.4 million lives (95% CrI = 13.7 - 15.9 …