Category: Research

  • 27/05/2021
    Tyler Cowen says some interesting things in an article Why Economics is Failing US on Bloomberg. I don’t think his…
  • 24/05/2021
    There was an article in the FT last week, commenting on an article in JAMA here. The topic is the…
  • 11/01/2021
    Originality is usually off track How mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher | WIRED UK For…
  • 10/12/2020
    According to a helpful app on my phone that I like to think acts as a brake on my sloth,…
  • 16/11/2020
    The history of science is the history of rejected ideas (and manuscripts). One example I always come back to is…
  • 11/11/2020
    There was a touching obituary of Peter Sleight in the Lancet. Sleight was a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford…
  • 02/11/2020
    From this week’s Economist | Breaking through Yet nowhere too little capital is being channelled into innovation. Spending on R&D…
  • 28/10/2020
    I came across a note in my diary from around fifteen years ago. It was (I assume) after receiving a…
  • 20/10/2020
    The background is the observation that babies born by Caesarian have different gut flora than those born vaginally. The interest…
  • 19/10/2020
    ‘Statisticians have already overrun every branch of science with a rapidity of conquest rivalled only by Attila, Mohammed, and the…