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Death matters and so does Surrey doing well
Earlier today I had a really serious phone conversation with my Designated Best Friend about palliative care, being kept alive with scary electric shock machines (which my DBF said actually work very...
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“587 tall buildings in the pipeline in London …”
This fake photo appears at the top of a piece about new building in London, this being how Nine Elms is about to look: If you regularly travel by helicopter anyway. Also adorning the same piece is this...
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I am starting to take exercise by doing exercises, which I have not done since my school days, which put me right off the whole idea. I am being supervised and guided and advised and encouraged by a...
View ArticleArtificial brain-controlled limbs as brain therapy to reactivate real limbs
About a week ago now, I did a posting here about a monkey that had learned to pay pong using only its brain, with no merely physical contrivance whatever. Well, the other day (which other day is of no...
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BMNB quote of the day: If you feel something is missing …
Here we go: It’s been a quiet day here at BMNB, which is not surprising given how wonderful the weather has been. Just the right amount of warm. Not a cloud in the sky. Perfect. Who, on a day like...
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Some surprises at the Royal Marsden today
Now that the weather is good and Lockdown seems to be easing, I am doing a lot more getting out, but am in a physical state where properly thoughtful blogging is hard to do on a day when I will be...
View ArticleThis Blog was fun while it lasted – but now it is approaching its end
First I got diagnosed with lung cancer, and that was bad. And then I started taking the pills, and that was good. The cancer got no worse, and I got better. But now the side effects, if that’s what...
View ArticleHello again
After writing the previous posting here, about how BMNB dot come is now being wound down, from a daily to an occasional blog, I was determined that my next piece of bloggage would be for Samizdata, and...
View ArticleI am in hospital
Not about to die, or I don’t think so, but yes, and trying to use my laptop. What with me being in a weakened state, everything now takes twenty times as long, no matter how simple it would have been...
View ArticleUpdate on Brian
Blogmaster Michael here.Brian is presently in 24 hour care, after having some radiotherapy recently. This has after-effects, sadly, and he is therefore doing it a bit rough at the moment. Hopefully...
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