News reports say that Simon Bramhall [pictured here], Consultant HPB & Liver Transplant Surgeon in Birmingham, is accused of branding his initials into a transplant patient’s liver. The Telegraph‘s report, by Miranda Prynne, begins: A surgeon has been suspended after allegedly branding his initials into a transplant patient’s liver. Consultant Simon Bramhall, 48, is accused of burning […]
Year: 2014
Maria de la Iglesia Vayá joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)
Maria de la Iglesia Vayá has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says: I’m a computer scientist working in the field of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). I love studying mental disorders and human emotions through image processing techniques although I’m mainly interested in being a good sailor for letting the wind comb my luxuriant […]
Why it will take 6,000 dead goats to build Britain’s high speed railway
A new UK railway project will indirectly require thousands of dead goats, explains the IanVisits Blog. It’s a matter of vellum: If, or when the High Speed 2 railway is constructed, it will require roughly 6,000 dead goats. This curious statement comes from an old technicality as Acts of Parliament, when passed into law are still […]
Unthought knowns, unknown thoughts, and such stuff
As Distinguished Eagle Scout Donald Rumsfeld famously put things back in 2002 : “There are known knowns (the things we know we know) but we also know there are known unknowns (that is to say we know there’s some things we do not know) but there are also unknown unknowns (the ones we don’t know […]