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— and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged Conclusion: Covid-19 is like a burglar who slips in your unlocked second-floor window and starts to ransack your house. Once inside, though, they don’t just take your stuff — they also throw open all your doors and windows so their accomplices can rush in and help pillageContinue reading “A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19…”

“Keep the company of those who seek the truth; run from those who have found it.” Vaclav Havel

“We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.” Karl Popper

“Learn the tools. Seize the moment.” Henri Cartier-Bresson    

I read many blogs, articles and books. Often I come across an idea, principle or thought that I know I have read somewhere else but the writer claims is original. I’m not talking about stealing secrets or blatant plagiarism – if you steal from one person it’s plagiarism, steal from many it’s research. I doContinue reading “5 Harsh Truths”

From reestheskin’s blog, under the categories “Bullshit, NHS” Link HERE At one time the words ‘manager’, ‘management’, or worst of all, ‘line-manager’ were alien to much of medicine or academia. Things still got done, in many ways more efficiently than now. It is just that our theories of action and praxis have been ransacked byContinue reading “Thought of the day 191114 – “Out of time””

Excellent editorial in the current British Dental Journal from Stephen Hancocks. Here is the final paragraph: “Whether you regard yourself as a repairer or one who needs repairing, an oxygen-mask fitter or recipient of the same it behoves us all to pay attention to our individual health and well-being, to not be ashamed of thisContinue reading “Well, being a dentist. Wise words.”

I have spent a few hours reading the weekend newspapers both paper and online (it’s a wet day & the Open is coming to a conclusion) and these words from Franciscan Friar, Brother William of Baskerville in Emberto Eco‘s “The Name of the Rose” seem most appropriate: “Often learned men of our time are onlyContinue reading “Quote of the Weekend”