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In recent years there has been a surge of concern over radiation exposure due to the excessive use of radiological tests (x-rays, CT scans, mammograms, angiograms). I came across this kind of concern last in this post by Barbados Butterfly earlier this month.
I was pleasantly surprised to find a different perspective, from a senior radiologist, [...]

…or should it be Photographic History?
Navin at Blogocentricity has this interesting post:
Stumbled across The Empire that was Russia, an exhibition of a photographic record of turn-of-the-century Russia by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. This guy was a genius who figured out a way to make colour photographs way before they were invented.
Check out his post and the [...]

The picture on the right shows a traditional South Indian earthenware lamp (அகல்் விளக்கு ‘akal villakku’ in Tamil). More about that later…
This is my first proper post in my new blog…
Moving is always a little sad. This move is especially so for me as I have been unable to find a way to transfer the [...]

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Continue reading if you really want to know what I wrote at that time…

I've been blogging, intermittently, over three months now.
I started out with some vague ideas about doing 'something creative'.
Question: Does the full stop - period for the Americans - come before or after the quote?… I never would have thought of something like this if it were not for Umberto Eco and his 'Foucault's Pendulum' (pedants [...]

We have a new blogger, a fellow dotor from Tamil Nadu.
OrthoDoc is an Orthopaedic Surgeon based in India.
He would still call himself a student. Learning is a process that continues throughout life for a student of Medicine. He hopes to express, discuss and learn more through this blog. His range of discussion will not [...]

Do I have an alcohol problem?
A question that I have been afraid of even thinking out loud.
Because I believe, as does Dr. Crippen, that the very fact that I am asking myself the question is proof that I believe there is a problem.
Dr. Crippen goes on in this excellent, thought-provoking post
If you are asking yourself [...]