Case of the Week 677
This week ' s case came through my lab awhile back and was beautifully captured in the following photographs by Emily Fernholz. The specimen is a Giemsa-stained thin blood film from a patient with travel to Botswana. What parasite is seen here? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - March 29, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Birds spread their wings
A Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) flew into Berry Fen when we visited a couple of days ago to settle among the eight Little Egrets feeding there. In so doing it spooked two of the six Glossy Ibis that were feeding on the edge of a flooded area and they flew off to join four others of that species.
Cattle Egret over Berry Fen near Earith, Cambridgeshire, October 2021. Sixteen of this species seen there, the following day (county record)
Apparently, there were fifteen additional Cattle Egret in a flock on the same patch the day after we visited, which is the largest recorded gathering of this species in Cambridgeshire. A county...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 22, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Migrants from Africa are flying in and choosing to stay in England longer than ever before
A Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) flew into Berry Fen when we visited a couple of days ago to settle among the eight Little Egrets feeding there. In so doing it spooked two of the six Glossy Ibis that were feeding on the edge of a flooded area and they flew off to join four others of that species. There are cattle on the fen, but the egret didn’t come in close.
Cattle Egret over Berry Fen near Earith, Cambridgeshire, October 2021. Sixteen of this species seen there, the following day (county record)
Apparently, there were fifteen additional Cattle Egret in a flock on the same patch the day after we visited, which is the...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 22, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Cattle Egret, Bubulcus ibis
A Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) flew into Berry Fen when we visited a couple of days ago to settle among the eight Little Egrets feeding there. In so doing it spooked two of the six Glossy Ibis that were feeding on the edge of a flooded area and they flew off to join four others of that species. There are cattle on the fen, but the egret didn’t come in close.
Cattle Egret over Berry Fen near Earith, Cambridgeshire, October 2021. Sixteen of this species seen there, the following day (county record)
Apparently, there were fifteen additional Cattle Egret in a flock on the same patch the day after we visited, which is the...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 22, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
A CHC model of cognitive adapted to African culture. Towards a Model of Valued Human Cognitive Abilities: An African Perspective Based on a Systematic Review | Psychology
Thought provoking adaptation and extension of CHC theory of intelligence to African culture. Double click on image to enlarge.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.538072/fullTowards a Model of Valued Human Cognitive Abilities: An African Perspective Based on a Systematic ReviewSeth Oppong*Department of Psychology, University of Botswana, Gaborone, BotswanaStudies that investigate cognitive ability in African children and estimate the general cognitive abilities of African adults tend to work with existing models of intelligence. However, African philosophy and empirical studies in cross-cultural psycholo...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - December 17, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Egrets, I ’ ve seen a few – Cattle Egret
Back in the early 1990s, Mrs Sciencebase and I visited Botswana and Zimbabwe. It was wonderful. The people, the landscapes, the wildlife. There were so many superb species around such as Golden Weaver Birds, Oxpeckers, Superb Starlings, various storks, ibis, vultures, Fish Eagles, Eagle Owl, and Little Egrets (probably Cattle Egrets too).
We were quite confused on our return on a visit to the North Norfolk coast (a place that would become a favourite haunt) that we saw a Little Egret there. Over the next three decades or so little egrets seem to have become increasingly common in East Anglia and although it’s still ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Egrets, I ’ ve seen a few – including the Cattle Egret
Back in the early 1990s, Mrs Sciencebase and I visited Botswana and Zimbabwe. It was wonderful. The people, the landscapes, the wildlife. There were so many superb species around such as Golden Weaver Birds, Oxpeckers, Superb Starlings, various storks, ibis, vultures, Fish Eagles, Eagle Owl, and Little Egrets (probably Cattle Egrets too).
We were quite confused on our return on a visit to the North Norfolk coast (a place that would become a favourite haunt) that we saw a Little Egret there. Over the next three decades or so little egrets seem to have become increasingly common in East Anglia and although it’s still ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Glossy Ibis – Plegadis falcinellus
You don’t expect to turn up at a Cambridgeshire wildlife reserve to be told by the warden (Hannah Bernie) that there’s an African bird species hanging around. But, in early November, that’s what we heard at RSPB Ouse Fen. Actually, I’d heard that this species was at RSPB Fen Drayton, but I’m not a real twitcher so hadn’t gone out of my way to see it there. We were actually there on a fairly calm day to see if we could sight the Bearded Reedlings.
Warden Hannah told us there was a Glossy Ibis, Plegadis falcinellus, present and it had been seen but it was lurking behind the reeds at the t...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 17, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Carrying bituminous coals to Newcastle
This is one of those stories that somebody on social media will shout at me and say it didn’t happen. Well, it did.
When I moved down south, I didn’t have a car, didn’t even drive. So, I used to jump on a train every few weeks to visit my parents who were still living in my hometown. It was a three-hop journey: Cambridge to Peterborough, Peterborough to Newcastle, and then a Metro ride to the family semi-detached pile.
I always took a rucksack. The one that I’d taken around Europe Inter-Railling, the one I’d worked around the US with, same one that I’d tour Australia a year later with th...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 17, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
The Future Of Hearing: How Technology Might Turn Us Into Superheroes
The objective of medical tools for personal use started to go beyond
measuring health parameters and vital signs, offering accurate, as well as easy
and patient-friendly measurements. Lately, they are also coupled with aesthetic
appearance. Elements of design thinking and UX become an ever more organic
part of product development – and that’s also visible when looking at hearables.
The
trend also allows getting rid of societal stigmas bound with medical devices.
Millions of people don’t
want to wear hearing aids because it’s connected to aging and is perceived as
being more dependent while signaling that the bod...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 12, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine app artificial artificial intelligence ear hearing hearing aid hearing technology medical specialty otoscope smartphone superhero Source Type: blogs
The Importance of Celebrating Milestones Together
Summer often brings more than the usual number of celebrations. Graduation ceremonies, engagement parties, weddings, baby showers, gender reveals, retirement parties, funerals, etc., etc. If you have friends and family, chances are you’ve been to at least a couple such events in the last month.
It got me wondering why we do them. Because we always do them, whether hosted by others or done on our own. We do them despite the potential for family drama, the expense, the agony of guest lists, and the worries about what to wear. We participate in events put on in our honor by well-meaning friends, whether they are truly in ...
Source: World of Psychology - August 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. Tags: Family Friends Memory and Perception Cultural Practices Holidays Traditions Source Type: blogs
How Could Digital Health Fight Against The Climate Catastrophe?
Climate change is the
greatest health challenge of the 21st century, and threatens all aspects of society,
says
the WHO in its COP24 Special Report. What could digital health technologies
do to support the fight against the climate crisis? How could healthcare
processes, facilities, medical devices become more sustainable? As it is
humanity’s priority to mitigate the worsening as well as the impact of rising
temperatures and extreme weather events, we tried to figure out what role
digital health could assume here. We found many options – and even more
possibilities for future development.
The climate crisis is our ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 11, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine air asthma climate climate catastrophe climate change climate crisis digital digital health efficient Healthcare mosquito optimize resilience solar sustainability technology Source Type: blogs
Birds of the Fen Edge Festival
The biannual Fen Edge Festival took place midsummer weekend 21-23rd June 2019. As ever, exciting but exhausting with lots of music and other events, stalls, etc. I side-stepped being an official photographer this year in favour of doing a bit more “musical” performance, but I still managed to get a few photos of the birds that The Raptor Foundation had brought along.
Happy and red-faced Bataleur Eagle
The Bataleur Eagle (Terathopius ecaudatus) is one of Africa’s snake-eating eagles. It’s a medium-sized eagle but up close and personal looks quite huge. Mainly black with distinctive white on the under...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - June 24, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Can Digital Health Go Off-Grid And Still Save Lives?
What would you do without your smartphone or laptop for a week? Some cannot even imagine putting them down for a second, not thinking much of the vulnerability of our entire digital existence. What if a hurricane destroys the electric grid? What if power supplies will get cut off by unstoppable rain? What about a future dystopic scenario with our traditional energy sources depleted due to overconsumption? And what if we just look at less fortunate parts of the world where stable electricity service is a rare treasure? We collected some examples of how medicine could become more independent from the traditional electricity ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Africa asia Caribbean development digital digital health Healthcare smartphone solar sustainability technology Source Type: blogs
Reverse Innovation: When Disruptive Health Solutions Go West
Zipline drones populate the Rwandan skyline, portable
electrocardiogram machines help doctors diagnose in clinics in rural India, easy
testing lets cure children in Botswana. Beyond being brilliant medical
innovations, at some point, all these technologies were brought to or should be
applied to high-income countries after their success in their original settings
in Africa or Asia – as they have been available for
a fraction of the cost, they have represented a highly creative solution
and/or the regulatory environment has allowed them to thrive. That’s what
researchers call reverse innovation, and
we tracked down the ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Portable Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones Africa asia development digital health disruption disruptive drones empowerment Healthcare Innovation medical drones reverse innovation technology West Source Type: blogs
