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Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy a home, my dad stunned me with a quick mental calculation of loan payments. I asked him how - he said he'd learned the strange formula for compound interest from his father, who was a merchant in 19th century Iran. 1/4

I love maps, you love maps, everybody loves maps... prove me wrong 🧵 1. Topography of USA

Some time ago I set out to try to answer a simple question: are there ANY minerals or metals we humans have well and truly mined into exhaustion? Months later, I think I have an answer...

Friendly reminder: if your chopping board looks like this, please throw it away immediately

Roberto Carlos 1997 freekick illustrating the Magnus effect.

Strange that there is no award for Lou Macari in the New Year’s honours. Again. It's so wrong. Macari deserves to be honoured not only for services to football but especially for services to the community and tending to the homeless in Stoke-on-Trent. He embodies everything an

Today, Chair Chris Provan was delighted to join other healthcare leaders at Bute House to discuss how to sustain and renew our NHS with First Minister John Swinney. Greater GP investment & workforce planning will be integral to deliver a healthier and fairer Scotland.

Europe’s 5 Oldest Flags (That still valid)

37 years ago today.

40 years of Boston Dynamics (1983 - 2023) [📹 World Data Center, HD]

Footage of snow falling on the Acropolis. The Parthenon stands beautifully in the snowy landscape.

Many hospitals have implemented clinical decision support (CDS) systems to reduce inappropriate imaging Cluster RCT (26 depts in 3 German university hospitals, N=65,764 imaging requests) shows CDS does not reduce inappropriate requests JAMA Link in reply

Julio Parra, owner of JP's Water Truck Services, helps SFFD extinguish a box van fire with his water truck. He actually succeed even before the firefighters get into action.

The Cistercian numerals are a forgotten number system, developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the early thirteenth century, much more compact than Arabic or Roman numerals: with a single character you could write any integer from 1 to 9999.

How the Solar System moves through space

despair BBC Radio 4 Today that was a pretty unbalanced conversation about prostate cancer screening and harms. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…. this shouldn't be about what Wes Streeting etc thinks - this should be about evidence of benefit and harm

About five weeks ago I remarked to a colleague that I had an unusual sensation in my chest. “The only way I can describe it is like someone is inflating a balloon behind my sternum” We both had a laugh as it’s a long-running gag in ED that my aorta will get me…

As a doctor caring for hip fracture patients, I'm often struck by what a special thing it is that we've created systems where dozens of professionals with diverse expertise come together in purpose-built facilities to help someone who's fallen and broken their hip. Relieving

what a wondrous sound ,a Nightingale singing today .

I sometimes hear calls to remove “simpler cases” from the patients doctors manage; thereby allowing them to focus on complex patients and practise at the “top of their licence”. But for doctors, seeing an unending stream of complex patients is professionally very challenging.