I had a terrifying experience on Friday with my first ever go in an MRI machine. I had this weird tingliness in my right arm and face a while ago, and the neurologist didn’t think it was anything serious, but put me on the waiting list for an MRI anyway. It must have been the […]

This is the sort of video us biomedical nerds get off on.

So cool…. (shuts mouth)

afterellen are organising their own Top 100 Beautiful Women list after all the publicity that the Maxim one got last week. It will be interesting to see if the lesbian list differs greatly from the Maxim “men’s” list. (I can pretty much guarantee that Lindsay Lohan will not be number one!) After submitting my votes […]

the Romanian gymnast edition

By giving ordinary adult mice a drug - a synthetic designed to mimic fat - Salk Institute scientist Dr. Ronald M. Evans is now able to chemically switch on PPAR-d, the master regulator that controls the ability of cells to burn fat. Even when the mice are not active, turning on the chemical switch activates […]

My friend Karen and I are embarking on a new business venture - an online t-shirt store. But we are having a mental block over the NAME! We’ve narrowed it down to these three names and would love to have some feedback from the public at large. So please, feel free to answer the following […]

Originally uploaded by Richard Bailey.
A great photo by Richard Bailey from a series he did for a Down Syndrome calendar.
This is Georgina. She works part-time as a chef at a leading resturant in Cheshire. She has won many, many medals at Special Olympics over the years in swimming and gymnastics and now she is […]

Have you ever read the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman? I highly recommend them. They are the most blasphemous children’s books ever created! And the first book - Northern Lights - has been made into a movie which is coming out later in the year. Of course it’s been renamed to its American […]