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Not the news
Not that I read the BBC news website, because that would not be a good use of time, but a couple of items caught my attention today. Lifted from an article reporting comments made by the Premier League...
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Putting the clocks forward caused 1,000 heart attacks
This article from Sweden (hat tip Åsa) describes some research by the Karolinska Institute analysing hospital records from which they calculate that over the two weeks from putting the clocks forward,...
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How did you arrive?
The blog passes 10,000 page views today, and I thought it might be entertaining to look at how people arrived at the site. Most people reading the blog regularly do so using an rss feed, or via the...
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How times change
As late as 1971, women were banned from going into Wimpy Bars on their own, after midnight, on the grounds that the only women out on their own at that hour must be prostitutes. More observations on...
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Bless you
Or, why Mandarin won’t be the language of the future: The learner needs to know at least 3,000-4,000 characters to make sense of written Chinese, and thousands more to have a real feel for it. Fewer...
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Hospital treatment cost -v- mortality rate
Welcome to the blog Mrs Price, a graph for you: The Source is a paper based upon data collected over the past two centuries on mortality and costs incurred at the Massachusetts General Hospital...
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Two sleeps per night
Now we have so much artificial light that after a 1994 earthquake knocked out power, some concerned residents of Los Angeles called the police to report a “giant, silvery cloud” in the sky above them....
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Who’s your daddy?
I was a guest at the Brazilian embassy in London earlier this year, and had a DNA test done to assess the ancestry of my genes. The results are now in: I’m quite European it turns out. Who knew?! More...
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Scarecrows for pikeys
A quick Google search seems to suggest that one reason to have staff greeting customers as they enter a shop is to deter shoplifters: Have your employees greet each customer as they enter the store. A...
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Channel Tunnel
A link from a new blog I’ve started following revealed the following details about the Channel Tunnel’s construction: Such was the volume of material which was drilled out of the tunnel that the UK has...
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Consumption spreads faster today
An interesting graph at this location for the US (no original source given): I’m not sure I agree fully with the talking title. If anything the radio penetrated households faster than the internet, and...
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Taking money from mathematically challenged customers
A couple of pricing tricks I’ve come across in the last week to take money from non-thinking customers. Calling £9 equal to €10, then you need to know that the probability of Wizz Air being over an...
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Bronze [at my] age
I’ve started running again and discovered the weekly 5km park runs organised across the UK. Yesterday’s 5km run at hilly Hampstead Heath was better than expected: My first thought was, “wow, 3rd, and...
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How big a problem is HIV
If you collected all of the HIV from the world’s 30 million sufferers, it would fit onto a spoon. [source]
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London’s protected views
This diagram in the Economist captures 10 of the 13 protected views in London: The London Plan protects views of St Paul’s Cathedral and the Palace of Westminster, as seen from London’s larger parks....
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And for that reason, my mum’s out
I recently looked at contributing to a bridging loan to a company to complete a residential care home for the elderly. I’ll keep the numbers round for confidentiality reasons. The key financials seem...
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Russia is big
I’ve seen this in several places today, “Amazing fact. Tiny Bangladesh has more people than Russia”: Hat tip The projection used in maps can distort thing (the land area of England and Bangladesh is...
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Peak online dating
According to several sites, today, the first Sunday in January, is the busiest of the year in online dating. You might try mymateyourdate.com (Disclosure: I’m on the company’s advisory board). It’s...
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