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Maths of Music

The Math of Music

It is the end of the week – for some people – and time to reward yourself with some audiovisual stimulation, Something to energise your very core…Visual graphics bring familiar music to life and allow the listener to really ‘see’ the music…

Friday Choral Inspiration

Music, maths and media unite to substantiate the globality of social media engagement and demonstrate the potential we have to embrace dissonance and empower resolution.. Eric Whitacre is a superstar of modern day choral music. He has harnessed the power…

Inspiration

Friday Inspiration with Laura Burke

Mental illness touches everyone: our friends, co-workers, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters…and even our children. We need to do more than just talk about it, we need to invest in programs and services that will make a difference in people’s lives.…

Inspiration

Friday Inspiration Grinding the Crack

I must be getting older…I find I need a little bit of inspiration on a Friday! Maybe it is a reward for making it through another week, or motivation to get through another weekend on call…not sure — but whatever…

Friday Feynman Inspiration – Honors

I don’t like honors.I appreciate it for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use my work. I don’t need anything else. I don’t think there’s any sense to anything…

An inadvisedly large glass of wine

Walking out of the place where people are breathing their tortured last, hopping in the car to drive home under a golden wedge of moon trying valiantly to light up the human race. The streets are mostly empty, and the…

Utopia in Emergency Medicine

Tudor England was a fairly brutal place. Both the monarchy and the custodians of religion promulgated a philosophy of mercurial cruelty towards the populace, which did not begin to abate until well into the seventeenth century. Original, innovative ideas were…

Sitting on the Couch, Talking Evolution

I’m seated here, in upholstered comfort, with two questions. The couch is a dreadful, shameless pun, which I will explain in a moment. The questions though, are real. Both questions relate to the relevance of evolution in emergency medicine. The…

mandatpry training

Saving Lives, One Online Module at a Time

I’m not sure how we ever used to manage multi-traumas. We must have been frightfully underprepared. Back in the days before mandatory training we relied, rather guilelessly, on experience, a suite of knowledge from texts and journals and M &…

Doctors Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad: drug dealing the hospital way

It’s funny, a common discussion point comes up every so often when I talk to my non-medical friends about careers. The access to strong medications and drugs seems to be an endless fascination for some people; Can you write me…