Science

If you missed TalkScience 29 you can now catch up on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yU0k3npt_g

TalkScience - Fishing and marine protection: What's the catch? With an ever increasing appetite for fish how can we balance our daily demand with a sustainable supply? Ten per cent of the world's population depend on the...

Continuing our fishy theme, this week Peter Spooner explores the Library collections to learn about the history of fishing, from dolphins and ancient poisons to medieval mismanagement of English rivers http://bit.ly/1SjQ6U3

Fishing from the Earliest Times: A very brief history - Science blog Our next TalkScience event will explore the impacts of fishing on the marine realm. But how long have humankind been fishing for food? Peter Spooner delves into the British Library collections to find out.

This International Women's Day, lets take time out to celebrate the female inventors that have made our lives that little bit safer and easier.

Do these women inspire you to get inventing? If not, perhaps there's another female inventor who does - let us know who and why in the comments!

Mothers of invention: 6 indispensable items we use all the time that were created by women These female inventors got busy at the drawing board and transformed the way we live at home, at work and many places in between.

The British Library Voices of Science collection features in depth interviews with scientists, and these clips relate to soil - well, it is the end of the first month of the UN's International Year of Soils!

Soil Listen to scientists talking about soil, and the shells, bones and fossils that it contains, as rich sources of evidence for scientists about the history of past climates.

The last few working days before Christmas are always a good excuse to catch up on the BMJ Christmas articles and some slightly tongue-in-cheek research. So what interesting things have we learned from them this year?
1. Playing Wii could be bad for your health (http://bit.ly/13vt5cv)
2. But being a character in an animated children’s film could be considerably worse (http://bit.ly/1HoV0HW)
3. As could being a man (http://bit.ly/1t0BqAZ)
4. The ice bucket challenge was as transmissible as H1N1 (http://bit.ly/13qOGm4)
5. The quality of acronyms for clinical trials is decreasing over time (http://bit.ly/1E25hxF)
6. Anaesthesiologists tend to underestimate how long a procedure will take (http://bit.ly/1wdUMwT)
7. But for those longer-than-expected operations, surgical staff can use a suction canister to amplify the music on their phone (http://bmj.co/1xaOEwt)

Musical theatre Editorials Christmas 2014: Editorial Musical theatre BMJ 2014; 349 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7504 (Published 19 December 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g7504 Article Related content Metrics Responses Peer review Alex James Nicholls, specialty registrar, trauma and orthopaedics, Carol O’M…

Making waves with the Qatar Digital Library - Science blog Francis Owtram explores how Indian Ocean tsunami research is being enhanced by the Qatar Digital Library (QDL), a new bilingual, online portal of archival material relating to Gulf history and Arabic science. This is the first post in a series about the potential of the QDL to provide easier access.…