The Girl who wasn’t Good Enough is the first of The Lynda Collins Trilogy.
Liz is currently writing books 2 and 3. The original Book 3 was the first of the books to be written and it was suggested that readers would want to know where Lynda Collins’ background. The writing of books 1 & 2 will cause a major revision of book 3. Liz is very enthusiastic about the whole project. Reactions to book 1 have exceeded expectations.
Liz’s Radio Drama & Stage Plays are also available in paperback.
Eggs are perfect packaging of a fully balanced meal for any animal including ourselves. Tell ‘em Zoe!
I really have got better things to do than to continually dissect articles from so called scientists, but, when the item under attack is the super food called egg, someone has to leap to its defence. So here goes….
If you get the chance to hear Paul talk about the birth of stars in far off nebulae take it, but be prepared to sing a song about the fusion of small atoms into carbon – ‘Like a diamond in the sky!’
In May 2000, during the planetary alignment I thought about the impact of this on solar tides (Photosphere tides etc.). After calculating the contributions from each planet (inverse square for height, inverse cube for volume) I was impressed by the dominance of Jupiter’s effect and its orbital frequency, although orbital frequency when compared with solar rotation may complicate the gravitational coupling. The idea that Jupiter’s 11 year orbital cycle was somehow phase-locked with some mass-vibration in the sun would not leave me alone. Jupiter was phase-locked with an internal mass-vibration system of frequency 11 years producing an 11 year cycle of sunpot activity. This effect is complicated by contribution from Mercury to tidal volume . The idea was published in New Scientist by means of this letter:
While the work of Mausumi Dikpati suggests that meridional flows in the sun’s convective layer may allow us to forecast sunspot activity (6 March, p 38), other forces may also be at work. In particular, the giant planets in the solar system may play a role through the gravitational pull they exert on the massive amount of fluid flowing in the outer layer of the sun.
Curiously, this gravitational force can be expressed as a Fourier series whose most important terms have interesting periodicities: one of these coincides with the 11-year cycle of the sunspots. What we may be seeing, therefore, is the direct influence of planetary tidal forces and their effects on the stability of the magnetic loops created in the meridional flows in the sun’s convective layer. These forces could be a major factor in the cycle of magnetic loops believed to create the sunspots.
Jupiter is the largest contributor to the solar plasma tides. It may eventually transpire that its influence contributes to our climate.
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The world’s big pharmaceutical companies are cutting back their research into treatment for Alzheimer’s, after being hit by the failure of a number of high profile, and expensive, drugs trials. Sir John Bell, Life Sciences Champion for the government, and Stephen Whitehead, head of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry discuss why it is proving so hard to find something that works.
Statins for all? (BMJ Extract)
An epidemiologist’s call for all healthy adults over 50 to take statins was uncritically reinforced by the media without proper discussion of side effects. A problem for primary care doctors is that even rare side effects become common when millions of low risk patients are treated with statins……………………….As for evidence that high risk patients are deciding not to take statins because of a perceived risk of side e ects, this seems to be based on anecdote, and my own anecdote is also that many patients decline to take statins, saying that the side effects are unacceptable.
The arguments for giving statins to a whole population need to be made equally in forms of absolute risk; we must be fair about potential side effects, including the association with diabetes; and crucially we must also be clear that improving population health should not simply
be made the work of drug companies.
The Girl who wasn’t Good Enough is the first of The Lynda Collins Trilogy.
Liz is currently writing books 2 and 3. The original Book 3 was the first of the books to be written and it was suggested that readers would want to know where Lynda Collins’ background. The writing of books 1 & 2 will cause a major revision of book 3. Liz is very enthusiastic about the whole project. Reactions to book 1 have exceeded expectations.
Liz’s Radio Drama & Stage Plays are also available in paperback.
Liz & Glyn Wainwright 