The men who stare at goats (and big boar)
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Augustus Desiré Waller
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James Ewing
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Frank Eve
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Edward Sharpey-Schafer
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POCUS Physics 4
Ever wondered how harmonics actually work? Why you can hear Daft Punk through concrete? Who or what ALARA is? Where you can find a camembert sandwich? All this - and more - in the fourth penetrating episode of POCUS Physics!
Bundgaard syndrome
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In 2008, Haïssaguerre et al challenged the well-embedded term "benign" early repolarization by demonstrating a link between this familiar ECG pattern and idiopathic VF arrest
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