MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'bill bryson'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:36:23 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4152155&cid=t_102952_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FcP50FqKtDSk%2F Image by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE via Flickr I have assigned myself the task of listening to Bill Bryson‘s A Short History of Nearly Everything by the time of next Saturday night’s lecture at the Mercantile.This book sits currently (in my mental bookcase if not my physical bookcase) with Richard Dawkins and my fancy anniversary illustrated copy of The Origin of the Species. It continues my fascination with discovering how the world works. That is why I loved math: it was like suddenly being let in on the secrets of the universe. The fundamental theorem of calculus describes the whole universe. Book Crush: At Home by Bill Bryson (omnivoracious.com) Bill Bryson’s *At Home* (marginalrevolution.com) The Poetry of Science: Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson (3quarksdaily.com) ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4152155 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:22:56 +0100 4152155 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1730724&cid=t_102952_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fknock-knock-knocking.html In the 87 degree heat, I net the school for a swim. Lucky us! I dither. Maybe I could read my book whilst they swim, but "Bill Bryson" eludes me. Those last 22 unfinished pages, have haunted me all summer long. I still have the book mark but not the dratted book. Probably just as well, as there are already far too many distractions. Nonna announces that she will retire to her room to rest, due to a combination of heart burn and leg cramps, two facts that she mentions in an off hand manner, over the shoulder, a mere after thought, but diabetics are like that. After very little thought I grab the lap top, bound into the garden, open the pool safety cover and park myself on the edge. Whilst the children swim, I research with a combination of brain burn and crampt cranium,... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1730724 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:33:00 +0100 1730724 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1367954&cid=t_102952_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fawards-for-friendship-and-bannana.html I have been remiss of late as real life has interfered with blogging. So now as I sit quietly, nay silently on the sofa with an ice-pack tied nappy style around my jaw, a bottle of germ killers, liquid centrum and a crate of Ensure, I thought I would catch up with a little bloggy housekeeping."Miss Nelson" over at "Meaningful Outcomes" was kind enough to give me this Banana with yummies award. Thank you "Miss Nelson!" As it turns out this banana award is turning into more of a boomerang, flying across the blogosphere with ferocious speed. As a result I feel the urgent need to pass it on again before it starts to rot as nobody likes a rotten banana, although ripe one's do go rather well in smoothies. I'll keep it brief as the Vicadom might wipe me out.It is therefore my pleasure to hand it ... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1367954 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:17:00 +0100 1367954 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=620281&cid=t_102952_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Flet-them-each-brioche.html I am faced with a moral dilemma of gargantuan proportions. [translation = as well as a minor etiquette issue] Tis the season of school wind down when invitations proliferate. Kindly folk at the school wish to offer thanks to their volunteers and show their appreciation for inadequate services rendered. I find this a particularly delightful element of the American psyche. British people generally believe that they have a complete monopoly in the polite department, in both quality and quantity. Yet I do not ever remember experiencing such an outpouring of well wishes for minor services. [translation = although things may have changed in that last couple of decades] One of my favourite authors, "Mr.Bill Bryson" has also remarked, much more eloquently upon these perceived differences.I now fin... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=620281 Sat, 12 May 2007 17:34:00 +0100 620281 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=497048&cid=t_102952_115_f&fid=34678&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.catscanman.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D152 A snippet from Bill Bryson’s ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything,’ which would be of particular interest to Arunn and Lakshmi… Physicists are notoriously scornful of scientists from other fields. When the great Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s wife left him for a chemist, he was staggered with disbelief. “Had she taken a bullfighter I would have understood,” he remarked in wonder to a friend. “But a chemist…”It was a feeling [Ernest] Rutherford would have understood. “All science is either physics or stamp collecting,” he once said, in a line that has been used many times since. There is a certain engaging irony, therefore, that his award of the Nobel Prize in 1908 was in chemistry, not physics. Technorati Tags: ... scan man's notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=497048 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:27:37 +0100 497048 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=478985&cid=t_102952_140_f&fid=34838&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbipolarmale.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Fi-finally-finished-reading-my-bill.html I finally finished reading my Bill Bryson book and as with any good book it was sad to reach the end of it. Finished it just in time as it happens, my OU stuff arrived a couple of days ago and I’m trying (or more honestly, not trying) in vain to make a start on it. Now it’s here it all seems a bit overwhelming. I’ve installed the required software, read through the guide, in fact did everything I can but start the actual work. I’ve diverted myself by starting to build another website, taken to having long walks around the ring road, surfing the net, downloading and listening to loads of music.I knew my Astronomy course wouldn’t just consist of sitting out in the moonlight, gazing at stars, singing cowboy songs... but managing spreadsheets!This is gonna be hard for a luddite like ... Bipolar Mo blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=478985 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:22:00 +0100 478985