The shape of water

If you look here, you’ll be able to see a short slide show of a single wave. Well, what is a “single” wave actually? What I did was set the camera to continuous take and held the button for a wee bit.
What I love is the constant change. Yet even within that constant change we [...]

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Christmas decorations in Paris

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What a library!

A couple of days ago I visited the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

What an amazing and immense building! You’ll see it’s composed of four great L-shaped towers, one at each corner of a garden space and all connected by long corridors. I went when the library opened at 10 in the morning and the queues of [...]

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Does the body make the mind sick, or vice versa?

David Corfield mentioned ‘When The Body Displaces the Mind’ on his blog. It’s by Jean Benjamin Storr who is a French ‘psychoanalytic psychosomatician’ – Wow! I’ve never heard of such a job, but I do understand both the idea and the relevance of having someone with such skills on a team.
We still have a very [...]

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Bricks

Bricks, originally uploaded by bobsee.
For those of you who like spotting patterns and wondering what exactly you’re looking at, you might find this photo interesting.
I took it a couple of mornings ago. It’s the car park outside my building. Looking at it now, it’s like some great board game or something……
The shiny [...]

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Inspirational doctors

The new Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners is Professor Steve Field. In an interview published in today’s BMA News Review he says he was inspired to become a GP by his local family doctor – here is how he describes that man -
This GP was a listening, thinking person, who dealt with [...]

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Wallace Monument in Winter Mist

Wallace Monument, originally uploaded by bobsee.
What can I say?
I’m happy with this.

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Winter mist Glasgow

A couple of evenings ago on my way home from work, George Square in the centre of Glasgow looked like this

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Randomised Controlled Trial of Parachute Use

Every Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal, now known simply as the BMJ, has some really fun articles. I haven’t opened this year’s issue yet but when I picked it up from behind my door just now a study from old BMJ Christmas issue came to mind. It was a systematic review of the [...]

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Amazing Escher-like photos

Wired magazine has an article about a Japanese architect and photographer, Kazuhiko Kawahara, who goes by the name of Palla, and who creates amazing mosaics of photographs on his website. He twists the images using symmetries and the results are very reminiscent of Escher prints.

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