Quentin Huys

science

Darwin's work online as MP3s or to read.
Don't dumb me down by Ben Goldacre, Guardian 14/9/2005. Excellent rant about science in the media.
Rat navigation guided by remote control Talwar et al.(2002): Nature, 417:37-38. Simple, somewhat scary experiment.
EurekAlert.Org The AAAS' press release site for science news... really GREAT!!!
mathematics education for 21st century biologists Bialek and Botstein, 2004: Science 308;788-790

The AIDS epidemic, NEJM, 351:115. "Of all people between 15 and 49 years of age worldwide, 1.1 percent are now infected with HIV. [... In Africa], AIDS has single-handedly reversed gains in life expectancy and reductions in childhood mortality." ActionAid Uganda: there are only three condoms per year available for every man in southern Africa.
Is Depression an Adaptation? R. Nesse, Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2000;57:14-20.
Intrituing parallels between civil servant and nonhuman primate hierarchies in health Brunner E (2007) Biology and Health Inequality. PLoS Biol 5(11): e267
A few interesting passive smoking statistics (Whincup et al. 2004: BMJ 329:200-205). Cotinine is a nicotine breakdown product and a marker of exposure to nicotine.
Pandemic Influenza: The Inside Story Nicholls (2006); PLoS Biology 4(2):e50

A caricature of respect :: Moller, LA Times 6/2/2006
Martin van Creveld on Iraq :: a very bleak outlook indeed
London bombs :: Story of a street
First of all, do you know your capitals?
What has Europe ever done for us?
Wikipedia: Common Agricultural Policy: According to the World Bank Human Development Report 2003 in 2000 the average dairy cow in the EU receives $913 in subsidies, compared with an average of $8 per person in Sub-Saharan Africa. This subsidy is estimated to cost each EU citizen on average £16 per week
Religion's misguided missiles Richard Dawkins, September 15th 2001, The Guardian
Breaking silence over the horrors of Hebron. Israeli soldiers talk - The Independent, Wed, June 23rd 2004
Die Doppelmoral der Bush Krieger, Spiegel vom 26.9.2002
Bacardi's tough love for Kuba, Duncan Campbell, Thursday August 15, 2002, The Guardian
b'tselem The Israeli information centre for human rights in the occupied territories.

I've designes a few websites:

RealClimate.Org A blog by climate scientists, providing "a quick response to developing stories [... and] the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary"
The juice is running out Nature editorial on the US Energy policy -- no change.

Dirty old towns :: town names a spam filter might object to.
Coffee
The virtues of idleness Tom Hodgkinson, The Guardian, August 7th 2004. Great read when you feel guilty about that long morning in bed :-)
Tube map in German and> some more by Horst Prillinger... highly amusing.
Hu, Bush and Rice on language...
Some more Bushisms... highly amusing on language...
A great optical illusion -- watch your brain get it wrong :-)

Imagine the Christian world today if the Romans had preferred guillotine to crucifixion (from Stefan Neyer).