- Quote - "The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more"’
- Quote - "important enough to risk somebody else's"’
- Quote - "The world is made up of our differences"’
- Quote - "Would I that he was not here now, but was then, than he never was here at all"’
- Quote - "impulse towards good involves choice and is complicated, and the impulse towards bad is hideo’"
- Quote - "We need to dispel the myth that empathy is ‘walking in someone else’s shoes.’"
- Thin cakes called Crumpits, made from seeds of Polygonum aviculare L. (Knot Grass)
- Quote - "True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough"
- Quote - "It is a matter not so much of concealing as of withholding and what is withheld is not so much the truth as the facts"
- In Remembrance - Hiroshima bomb survivor Sunao Tsuboi dies at 96
Recent blog posts
Who's new
- myra poynter
- The Mighty Kiwi
- silverstar
- BUZZ
- Phil Corper
Who's online
There are currently 0 users and 3 guests online.
User login
Syndicate
Science
Relative Becquerels or relative risks?
Thu, 17/11/2011 - 1:00am — CarolI was struck by some of the numbers in the recent Guardian article on plans to lift radioactive contamination controls on UK sheep farms
Chernobyl - 26 April 1986
Wed, 08/09/2010 - 2:19am — CarolChernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, pa
The ladder of relative risk?
Wed, 28/07/2010 - 9:07pm — CarolAs a side report in today's report about the tangible effects of loneliness on heaalth:
Life and style
Response: Don't let the phoney melanoma scare keep you out of the sun | Comment is free | The Guardian
Wed, 21/07/2010 - 9:27pm — CarolInterestingly different view on UV exposure and melanoma's in The Guardian's Comment is Free - stirred up plenty of response too!
Comment is free
Don't let the phoney melanoma scare keep you out of the sun
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday July 21 2010
- Sam Shuster
Kira Cochrane asks "why can't we give up the tan?" (Going for the burn, G2, 7 July). The answer is simple: we are not convinced that the alleged harm outweighs the obvious benefits, and we dislike the bullying, fear-mongering campaign against sun exposure. Skin cancer statistics are used to scare, not educate.
