Photosynthesis in the Marine Environment (I)
I’m currently reading this book. Below some observations from part 1. … “The term autotroph is usually associated with the photosynthesising plants (including algae and cyanobacteria) and heterotroph...
View ArticleWikipedia articles of interest
i. Motte-and-bailey castle (‘good article’). “A motte-and-bailey castle is a fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed...
View ArticlePhotosynthesis in the Marine Environment (II)
Here’s my first post about the book. I gave the book four stars on goodreads – here’s a link to my short goodreads review of the book. As pointed out in the review, ‘it’s really mostly a biochemistry...
View ArticlePhotosynthesis in the Marine Environment (III)
This will be my last post about the book. After having spent a few hours on the post I started to realize the post would become very long if I were to cover all the remaining chapters, and so in the...
View ArticleWater Supply in Emergency Situations (I)
I didn’t think much of this book (here’s my goodreads review), but I did learn some new things from reading it. Some of the coverage in the book overlapped a little bit with stuff I’d read before, e.g....
View ArticleWater Supply in Emergency Situations (II)
Here’s my first post about the book. In this post I’ve added a few more quotes from a couple of the last chapters of the book: … “Due to the high complexity of the [water supply] systems, and the...
View ArticleThe Ageing Immune System and Health (I)
“as we age, we observe a greater heterogeneity of ability and health. The variation in, say, walking speed is far greater in a group of 70 year olds, than in a group on 20 year olds. This makes the...
View ArticleGastroenterology – Amal Mattu
… If I hadn’t just read Horowitz & Samsom’s book I’m fairly sure this lecture would have been difficult to follow, but a lot of the stuff covered here is (naturally) closely related to the stuff...
View ArticleA few diabetes papers of interest
i. Impact of Parental Socioeconomic Status on Excess Mortality in a Population-Based Cohort of Subjects With Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes. “Numerous reports have shown that individuals with lower...
View ArticleViruses
This book is not great, but it’s also not bad – I ended up giving it three stars on goodreads, being much closer to 2 stars than 4. It’s a decent introduction to the field of virology, but not more...
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