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		<title>Gallstones in the family</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know that the risk of developing gallstones has a strong genetic component. We know this (among other ways) from twin studies, pairs of  identical twins (who share all their genes) are more likely to both have (or both be free of) gallstones, than pairs of non-identical twins. Indeed the rate in non-identical twins is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sampling bias and Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keyhole surgery to remove the gallbladder is called laproscopic cholecystectomy. Whilst waiting for my gallbladder to be removed, I did the usual online research I would do for any medical procedure. Checking at reputable sites like the NHS, NIH, and found some very practical advice at the Royal College of Surgeons. YouTube also had some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change in life expectancy due to Graves&#8217; disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most medical papers note that people with Graves&#8217; disease have increased mortality of all or many causes. The situation after treatment with radioactive Iodine is better studied because the governments are keenly interested in how dangerous radiation (and especially radioactive Iodine) is, for reasons of both defence and power generation. Most medical papers quote mortality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Java Versions and Firefox Jan 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows J7u10 confused the installer. Basically if you want it to work in FIrefox on WIndows, uninstall all versions of Java, then install the latest. However currently j7u11 has known security vulnerabilities, so uninstall all versions of Java, wait till Oracle release j7u14 and then forget to install it because life is simpler without this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Ascending &#8211; Nick Lane</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished Nick Lane&#8216;s book &#8220;Life Ascending&#8221;, which won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for science books. It is a fantastic book, outlining as it does ten big developments required to build modern organisms. You&#8217;ll never think of blue-green algae the same way again (unless you were an evolutionary biologist who knew all this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I believe in miracles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Waters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended Exeter University DebSoc debate on &#8220;this house believes in god&#8221; on Friday night. Amongst other arguments one combination of statements by the Doctor of Theology present struck me as curious. He scoffed at the power of science to prove the efficacy of prayer, and later claimed that a friend of a friend was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Server slow to list contents of folders with lots of files in</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hit this &#8220;feature&#8221; of Windows servers (2003 this time) again. If you create a folder with lots of files in, operations on that folder become painfully slow. Unfortunately this is due to the legacy 8.3 filename support, and the solution was to switch that off before you created the files. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130694 A classic example of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snopes Bot needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What facebook needs is a Snopes bot which spots the posts known to be false or misleading, and just warns the person as they try to post/share such a story.]]></description>
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		<title>Chess Simul &#8211; Advice on giving and taking part</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A chess simultaneous display is where a strong player takes on more than one opponent simultaneously. Sometimes this is done with clocks but more usually without, when people must move when the simul giver arrives at their board. Wikipedia notes GM Donner gave 3 bits of advice for taking part which I paraphrase as: 1. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ala Ronde Xmas Tree Festival 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather wasn&#8217;t kind to the start of Ala Ronde xmas tree festival. The trees and trail are up for a few weeks (if they survive the weather). The Lympstone Primary school entry was in my view the most imaginative, although Opendoor Exmouth made good use of things to hand (menu and plastic cutlery), and [...]]]></description>
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