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• Retention of rural healthworkers needs more than increased funds

  By tigtog on 2010-09-13

  Fascinating post from Croakey: Globally, about one half of the population lives in rural areas, but less than 38 per cent of the nurses and less than 25 per cent of the physicians work there. The WHO has just released some global recommendations…

• One Line: responses to the Gillard minority government

  By tigtog on 2010-09-12 • ( 11 )

  Single sentences that struck me forcefully over the last few days –
  (Updated)

• Quicklink: OKCupid’s ‘statistical distinctness’ analysis

  By tigtog on 2010-09-12 • ( 2 )

  “We selected 526,000 OkCupid users at random and divided them into groups by their (self-stated) race. We then took all these people’s profile essays (280 million words in total!) and isolated the words and phrases that made each racial group’s essays statistically distinct from the others’.”

• Endangered Sunday: North American Bumble Bee

  By tigtog on 2010-09-12 • ( 3 )

  I’ve never seen a Bumble Bee in nature. I’ve seen plenty of imported European honey bees (some of them in the wild), and plenty of Australian native bees (which are mostly solitary, so no hives for them – our few social species are stingless, which is nice).

  But we don’t have Bumble Bees here, so I’ve missed out…

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-09-11 • ( 21 )

  Courtesy of napalmnacey, today’s otter is following a little girl around in the window at the Philadelphia zoo. Who is having more fun? Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything… Read More ›

• Blogiversary! and Gratuitous Benedict Cumberbatch blogging

  By tigtog on 2010-09-10 • ( 16 )

  This post has been sitting in my drafts folder for the last fortnight hoping for a stroke of brilliance to strike so that I could post something suitably amusing and symbolic of the last 5 years of blogging. Thanks so… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Grifters and Cons, and Delurking Day

  By tigtog on 2010-09-09 • ( 6 )

  Today’s Thursday Cheezburger highlights those sneaky LOLcats running scams … join in! Also – it’s Delurking Day! If you’ve been reading along, give us a shout and let us know you’re there. You’re welcome to say hi, introduce yourself, or tell us what’s impressed or disappointed you lately.

• EU bans experiments on great apes

  By tigtog on 2010-09-09 • ( 2 )

  After two years of heated debate on how to protect animal welfare without scuppering scientific research…

• A little lesson in undermining women in power

  By hatbluemilk on 2010-09-09 • ( 27 )

  This lesson comes courtesy of the Courier Mail. Four political stories about four different federal politicians and all of them use the politician’s last name in the title of the story, except one. Which story was it?

• APODtastic – Space Shuttle Tribute Poster: Endeavour

  By tigtog on 2010-09-09 • ( 4 )

  The poster shows the link between Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour and the shuttle that commemorates its voyages. This is only one in a series of new posters showing the Shuttles and the missions they have flown.

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