Two New Studies Point to Diabetes from COVID: Getting Covid may be a risk factor for developing diabetes, whilst having diabetes is a risk factor for getting severe Covid symptoms.
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2024-09-23
2024-09-23: A new study finds 3,601 of the more-than-14,000 chemicals known to be used to store, process, …
2024-09-18
‘Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?': A less widely-known Milgram experiment - asking someone to let you have their subway seat.
2024-09-10: Recent research provides some (weak) evidence that labelling menu items with calories might cause harm to some
2024-09-06: A friend gets in touch to let me know that it’s not necessarily scary AI cyber-brains that are …
2024-09-03: Research suggests that GLP-1 pharmaceuticals can prevent Covid-19 deaths
2024-08-26: The US Food and Drug Administration approved new vaccines for Covid-19 last week. The recommendation …
2024-06-17: Being thin is (in part) a genetic trait
2024-05-29: The study behind the trial that Novo Nordisk stopped early last year for efficacy reasons has been …
2024-05-21: The randomizr package for R (and apparently Stata) provides some nice simple functions to help …
2024-05-17: The excellent ConscienHealth blog, writing about a fierce debate in the world of nutrition science, …
2024-05-10: Hundreds of IPCC scientists think we'll being living in an environmental semi-dystopia by the end of the century
2024-04-22: The results aren’t published yet, but it looks like we’re going to see that the …
2024-03-30: R. A. Fisher’s quote from his address to the 1938 First Indian Statistical Congress remains …
2024-03-11: After a trial involving nearly 18000 participants, the US FDA approves Wegovy, one of the famed …
2023-12-22: Over 10,000 research papers were retracted this year
2023-12-22: 📚 Finished reading Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth.
2023-12-05: Being an data analyst type of person I am a fervent believer in the below concept, but until now I …
2023-12-04: The world is on track for a “hellish” 3C of global heating, the UN has warned. Apparently our …
2023-11-28: 📚 Finished reading The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul.
2023-11-21: Humans will go to considerable effort to get obviously useless information
2023-11-10: This interactive visualisation is a great way of explaining or visualising what a given …
2023-10-23: I’m sure no-one needs reminding, but today is National Mole Day. . Nothing to do with small …
2023-10-23: Unsurprisingly, the 'eat 2000 calories a day' recommendation isn't very scientific
2023-10-22: In a recent paper, researchers compared the trends in Google searches that suggest people are …