Bad news for hunters & bears
The perils of AND
On Probation: The legacy
More on Savile
The challenges of discoverability
How do you ever find anything on the ever-expanding web?
Wellcome Trust Book Prize: Circulation – William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea, by Thomas Wright
“For me, these essays were a tantalising glimpse of how the physician’s consideration of the human form, could have influenced, or been influenced by, the poetic forms of his period. John Donne spoke of the body as “a little world made cunningly”; he could just as well have been talking about a sonnet. These forays may not be to everyone’s taste, but I enjoyed being invited to explore beyond Harvey’s research chamber”, writes the reviewer, reminding us of just how many of today’s scientists are convinced that they are mere rational empiricists, driven by Popperian logic.
Wellcome Image of the Month: Osteoporosis from Mun-Keat Looi
Scary
If Primary-Care Doctors Were Taxed Like Hedge-Fund Managers
Only in America!
