Rick Cowhig

You’re so right about unusual film choices on planes! My fave unexpected discovery is ‘Marcel The shell with shoes on’. Watched that returning from a US business trip. Gorgeous movie. Wept like a baby.

Bravo. This amused me a great deal.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in US Females Aged 12-21 Years, 2003-2020 This study examines prevalence of iron deficiency among females aged 12 to 21 years to inform future screening strategies for iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia.

If you’re a menstruating person & your health insurance is in peril, get your ferritin checked now!

Iron deficiency is super common & causes symptoms ranging from fatigue to hair loss to cognitive dysfunction.

Ferritin should be 30+ in adults (50+ even better)

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Wrote to my MP (whom I admire and voted for) @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social this morning about this. Hopefully he and other Labour MPs will show moral courage where their leaders do not. I hope he votes to stop this bill. I will be checking.

Haha. Ditto thought.

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Hiya. My wife @clarecowhig.bsky.social is a campaigner on this issue and had bilateral breast cancer which was missed on mammogram. Have a look here for info. densebreast-info.org

Why Even Try if You Have A.I.? As A.I. grows more powerful, we may be more and more tempted to give up in advance and let it figure out things for us. What will we lose as a result?

What are we losing by offloading our thinking to A.I.?

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider turned lead into gold – by accident The ancient dream of turning lead into gold is now a reality – but it’s not quite what the alchemists might have hoped for.

RIP Issac Newton (aka the last alchemist), you would have loved watching the physicists get annoyed because they accidentally turned lead into gold
theconversation.com/physicists-a...

Some good news in dark times for science and medicine.

The Expanding Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis Armamentarium - PubMed The complex pathophysiology of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAV) is reflected in the heterogeneity of the presenting clinical syndromes caused by these diseases ...

3/ 🥊 Fibrosis regulation: targeting claudin-1 and macrophage-driven ECM secretion

🤔Big Question: Can precise targeting of neutrophil-driven NETosis and fibrosis halt disease progression more effectively than broad immunosuppression?

Interesting review👇
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39969779/

I highly recommend it. If I’m working from home, me and my wife @clarecowhig.bsky.social often hit the arcade at lunch hour to have a sandwich, play the two p tipping games and throw ping pong balls into cups. It’s the best mid-workday palate cleanser for the brain I know. :)

What a fascinating topic to delve into. We live a minute’s walk from the pier in Southsea. Ken Russell’s crew set fire to it in the early 70s while filming Tommy. It’s great for fishing, coffee shop and arcade. As for the politics, Jim Davidson is a regular performer, read into that what you will

Downloaded. Really enjoy Ologies podcast and am a sucker for reality TV!

Last night we watched Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv perform La Traviata on tour in Portsmouth UK. A wonderful performance. At the end they sang the Ukrainian National Anthem - a full opera cast with orchestra. The audience all on their feet. Spine tingling. Slava Ukraini

You will love it. Judge Keith Brymer Jones frequently weeps with genuine empathy and emotion when somebody makes a lovely pot. It’s very very wholesome. Enjoy.

Hmm, Canada has treason laws I assume for its citizens?

Just a reminder that the HPV vaccine literally PREVENTS CANCER and the series can be started as early as 9 years of age.

I’m another Sony Alpha series user - started with an A350 and upgraded to an A77. Macro shoots of everyday objects in the house are some of the most fun - finding beauty, texture and fascination in the ordinary.

I’m just a couple of chapters of in to ‘in my father’s house’. Excited to finish it and I didn’t know there was another in the series to look forward to as well :)

This is such a fabulous enterprise. My daughter took part in some fantastically exciting sessions with brilliant musicians. Highly recommended.

That’s a cracker

It was a superb show! Astonishing.

Thanks! The author reminds us “It is important to remember that problems that are easy on paper are often hard in reality, and that problems that are hard on paper are nearly impossible in reality.” A sanity check which applies to every workplace but is often skipped in excitement and enthusiasm.

Waiting for the performance to start. Excited to see the show! Tough to see (and have a quick chat to) a member of the WNO chorus outside protesting about cuts before taking to the stage. Culture and arts are some of our strongest assets as a country, we should fund them #SaveOurWNO #AchubOCC

The Quest for Cure: Exploring Complete Remission in Kidney Cancer Podcast Episode · MedInsights Unleashed · 29/07/2024 · 37m

Great interview with Prof Escudier from Gustave Roussy about the quest for a cure in RCC. Medinsights Unleashed is a podcast hosted by John Collins (who I’ve worked with in the past) and Zahra Ramji. #oncosky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

YouTube video by CelineDionVEVO Céline Dion - Hymne à l'amour (Live aux Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024 / Live from the Olympic Games

We will be singing an arrangement of this song at a University of Portamouth concert on 7 Dec. An excuse to revisit this extraordinary performance. Goosebumps (bosses d’oie?) m.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQ-...

Very niche classical music one. Dame Emma Kirkby, shopping in Muswell Hill Rymans.

My talented mum knitted a collection of inspirational women for my daughter. Can you guess who they are?

A Compact Disk of Richard Clayderman plays the songs of ABBA

This CD was a non-ironic gift to my teenage daughter from one of her school friends. I think it could be peak cheese.