Rats, mice and cockroaches discovered by inspectors lurking in dirty NHS hospital kitchens

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Hospital patients would be forgiven for expecting that the food dished up to them is prepared in only the most hygienic conditions. But kitchens making meals in British hospitals are failing to meet even basic standards of cleanliness. And infestations o ...
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Fiction Uncovered: The writers prized after all others

Source: The Independent

To the great happiness of most British book lovers, the literary calendar seems full of prizes for almost every genre of book and writer. There are book prizes for women authors (drawing predictable annual complaints fr ...
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Scientists turn skin cells into healthy heart tissue

Source: Khaleej Times

Kate Kelland (Reuters) / 26 May 2012 Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could ...
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Open access and open source in the context of scholarly publishing

Source: LXer

The landscape of scholarly publishing, like the world of software development, is driven by two opposing economic and philosophical approaches: commercial and closed versus free and open. These two approaches are part of a wider deb ...
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Spies by Michael Frayn

Source: Guardian Unlimited

What is a plot? For the reader, it is the discovery of concealed connections between events in a narrative. 's Spies is a novel with a carefully engineered plot, and a story whose two main characters are determined to uncover the sinister l ...
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Short course: Obesity not always tied to higher heart risk: Study

Source: Indian Express

NEW YORK: A new UK study has found that an obese person isn’t inevitably at increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death. “The people really at risk are the ones who have obesity in combination with other metabolic he ...
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Majoring in Potterology

Source: Salon

Last week in Scotland, 60 scholars gathered over two days for the U.K.’s first scholarly conference on the Harry Potter series. The Guardian newspaper quoted John Mullan, a professor of English at University College London, questioning ...
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Health Buzz: Obesity Not Always Tied to Heart Risk

Source: U.S. News & World Report

Obese people aren't necessarily at greater risk of heart disease, a new study suggests. "The people really at risk are the ones who have obesity in combination with other metabolic health risk factors," study author ...
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UK takes slice of $40m Intel university research investment

Source: ComputerWeekly.com

Computer Weekly is the leading provider of news, analysis, and opinion for the UK IT community. Intel is to invest more than $40m in a network of university research centres in the UK, Germany and Israel over the next five years. The Intel Collabor ...
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