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Carbon dioxide, blood pH and no time to evolve

Dave Bath wrote 2 weeks ago: Even if climate skeptics are correct in their denial of anthropogenic global warming, they cannot de … more →

Tags: Environment

Prozac/SSRIs during pregnancy risks your child getting depression, bipolar et al

Dave Bath wrote 1 month ago: Bottom line: before getting pregnant or during pregnancy, come off SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Re-upt … more →

Tags: Economics and Business

Carbon trading: why not join ETS?

Dave Bath wrote 1 month ago: There are a couple of approaches to carbon-trading that might ease the difficulties as far as domest … more →

Tags: Australia, Economics and Business, INTERNATIONAL, Politics

Anatomy for actors6 comments

Dave Bath wrote 2 months ago: Nature online (2008-06-16 doi:10.1038/news.2008.892) reports that atomists have discovered 11 facial … more →

The brain shrinkage they DIDN'T mention3 comments

Dave Bath wrote 2 months ago: The hype about the tiny Australian study reporting memory problems for chronic cannabis users is int … more →

Tags: media

Doping, sport, society - two good papers

Dave Bath wrote 3 months ago: Two new papers from the Nature publishing group (in British Journal of Pharmacology), a special issu … more →

Tags: Australia, ethics, Law

Sign up to become a lab rat!

Dave Bath wrote 3 months ago: If you are in Australia or New Zealand, and wish to be a volunteer for clinical trials, consider sig … more →

Tags: Australia

Fight corporate psychopaths with cryptic crosswords?

Dave Bath wrote 3 months ago: A recent paper detailing how cognitive ability drops in the powerless, keeping the downtrodden in th … more →

Tags: Society

Mobile phones, EMR, brains, suicide, sleep, sterility5 comments

Dave Bath wrote 3 months ago: I’m no fan of the view that "low-level" electromagnetic radiation, such as that from … more →

Tags: Economics and Business, Environment

Only a third of US biology teachers stand up for science2 comments

Dave Bath wrote 3 months ago: I realized that US science teachers are pressured to teach "creationism" in science classe … more →

Tags: Education, Politics, science and tech, Society, Theology and Religion, USA

Thylacine gene resurrected in mice1 comment

Dave Bath wrote 3 months ago: There’s been a breakthrough in "Jurassic Park" technology, not for dinosaurs, but fo … more →

Tags: science and tech

Latest thinking on addiction

Dave Bath wrote 3 months ago: Just when alcopops and alcohol harm reduction are in the public eye comes a very useful insight into … more →

Tags: Australia, Economics and Business, Politics, Society

Dawkins should promote quackery4 comments

Dave Bath wrote 3 months ago: Richard Dawkins in "Enemies of Reason: The Irrational Health Service" perhaps kicked an ow … more →

Tags: Society, Theology and Religion

HealthSMART shows the future of HealthBook3 comments

Dave Bath wrote 4 months ago: Hot on the heels of my dummy-spit about the 2020 proposal for HealthBook, I receive notice of a Vict … more →

Tags: 2020 Gabfest, Australia, Civil Rights, governance, Information Management, Politics, Victoria

The overclocked epileptic

Dave Bath wrote 4 months ago: I’ve long thought (especially since hearing about treatment of epileptic rats with subcranial … more →

Free Nature Immunity Poster

Dave Bath wrote 4 months ago: Biomed students: there is a cool poster "Innate immunity: sensing and signalling" availabl … more →

2020 and HealthBook - Aaaaaarrrrggggghhh3 comments

Dave Bath wrote 4 months ago: I’m worried!  A "Healthbook" (like Facebook, but for health data of individual … more →

Tags: 2020 Gabfest, Australia, Information Management, Politics

Nature on stem cells collection - free for 6 months

Dave Bath wrote 4 months ago: Here is a goldmine for anyone wanting to discuss stem cells, needing to sort out the real science fr … more →

Tags: Society, science and tech

Botox bites back - great!

Dave Bath wrote 4 months ago: It’s good news for those who deserve it, and bad news for those who deserve it. I’ve tho … more →

Tags: Society


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