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• Quickhit: another gynaecologist comes under scrutiny

  By tigtog on 2008-10-07 • ( 1 )

  This one worked at Lismore Base Hospital. There’s a lot less detail of exactly what malfeasance he’s accused of committing, but there is mention of a history of failed sterilisations due to alcohol consumption in New Zealand, and a paper-trail… Read More ›

• Virtual Travelling: baby love

  By tigtog on 2008-10-07 • ( 2 )

  This week’s photo sent me travelling back in time: How well I remember that utter fascination with those tiny limbs and their perfection, the wonder that this gorgeous new person had come from our flesh. It’s just as well that… Read More ›

• Busy

  By tigtog on 2008-10-06 • ( 3 )

  Teaching the kids to play contract bridge.

• In July I thought “make sure you don’t forget the blogiversary this year”

  By tigtog on 2008-10-05 • ( 18 )

  So what did I do? Here’s My first post (back at the original blogspot digs), and my second, which reveals what impelled me to begin blogging at all – the ineptitude and negligence surrounding the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Thank you… Read More ›

• Quick Hit: New Yorker covers and Strange Maps

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-05 • ( 3 )

  This Quick Hit is via the enthralling Strange Maps: “Les extrèmes se touchent: Palinworld“: SM explains the geography: “Big Diomede and Little Diomede, are where les extrèmes se touchent, as the French say. These two islands in the middle of… Read More ›

• Sunday Science links

  By tigtog on 2008-10-05 • ( 3 )

  Image Source: National Geographic: Best Science Images of 2008 Announced (Honorable Mention, Photography: “Squid Suckers: The Little Monsters That Feed the Beast” by Jessica Schiffman) Ig Nobels The Annals of Improbable Research has just had its annual big night out:… Read More ›

• CSIRO report: levels of childhood obesity have remained largely unchanged for the past decade

  By tigtog on 2008-10-04 • ( 13 )

  Research casts doubt on ‘obesity epidemic’ New government research shows that levels of childhood obesity have remained largely unchanged for the past decade. For the first time since the mid 1990s, government scientists asked a large number of Australian children… Read More ›

• TARP watch: bailout bill passed

  By tigtog on 2008-10-04 • ( 3 )

  For all the angst when the bill failed, the passing of the mildly modified (i.e. with added pork) bill seems to have me with a mass attack of underwhelmment. The stock markets still went down, and nobody seems all that… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-04 • ( 29 )

  Today’s outrageously cute baby otter is courtesy of Rover75 ! on Flickr. Check out the rest of the Banham Zoo set. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening… Read More ›

• Barriers to justice when rapists attack women with disabilities: new Australian report

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-03 • ( 12 )

  “This young woman [“Caroline”] has cerebral palsy, is wheelchair bound, totally dependant on carers for her personal and daily living activities, and non-verbal. Cognitively very aware, she depends on assisted communication to enable her to communicate … Caroline was sexually… Read More ›

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