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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Health
My family and I just came home from our local vårdcentral, the public medical centre, where we've taken our shots for epidemic H1N1/09 swine flu. It cost us nothing and we waited for only about 15 minutes. We got something...
Posted by Martin R at 10:57 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Health
Ed Yong's excellent post about fruit-bat fellatio received some even better, eye-opening comments from one Russell and Frog:Russell: "Tan is falling into the fallacy that animals have sex for the purpose of procreation. Or of writing as if. Those bats...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Biology
The research reported on is in fact irrelevant to the much-publicised concerns about MRSA and other bacterial strains that have evolved resistance to antibiotics.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Health
Thanks to Felicia for the tip-off....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Health
My system is used to going without caffeine for over 40 hours at a time -- counted from afternoon tea on a Monday to morning tea on a Wednesday for instance.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 24 Comments •
Category: Children
Us grownups do the same thing easily by just closing our eyes, holding our noses and "pushing", like on air trips or while driving in mountains or scuba diving.
Posted by Martin R at 3:04 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
The flu costs a week of lost work during which you feel like one of the restless dead.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Health
I recently realised what's probably depriving me of a beginning paunch.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 33 Comments •
Category: Space
Jeff Medkeff's friend, co-blogging under the pen-name Iatros Polygenos ("mongrel doctor" if my Greek serves me), offers a detailed account of our friend's last days. Turns out that Jeff died during a trip to England where he was having...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Politics
Hymen construction is a silly pointless procedure in demand among certain immigrant groups.
Posted by Martin R at 9:35 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
Poor kids. They should have corrected their failings and gained soul forces and this would never have happened.
Posted by Martin R at 5:48 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Biology
Water suppliers use natural water to make tap water.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 25 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
The incest taboo is a cultural universal, and most likely genetically determined.
Posted by Martin R at 7:20 AM • 88 Comments •
Category: Health
It would pose no problem for allergics if guide dogs were allowed everywhere on Swedish Rail trains.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Health
It's a weird kind of snow crash in your visual cortex.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Health
In most US legislatures a drug user runs a great risk of a jail sentence if she reports an overdose.
Posted by Martin R at 2:38 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Health
With mounting frustration, I'm watching an attempt to secure adequate health care for an elderly relative turn into something that looks a lot like a failed foreign aid project....
Posted by Martin R at 1:34 PM • 4 Comments •
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