mutations of mortality

The furor over the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments on Sharia law has been astonishing. I don't believe many people have read his...

I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. God does not bear grud...

I am sorry to report that Professor David Mason of Oxford University has died following complications of routine surgery. David who was in h...

From 1974 to 1992 I worked at the old Victorian hospital at Boscombe. Today the site is given over to social housing. The other main employe...

The Maharishi has died aged 91. The old charlatan deceived the Beatles, who may have known a thing or two about pop music, but were hopeless...

I phoned the ward and asked my houseman to arrange for his admission. There would be things to do; a bone marrow with samples sent for chrom...

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"—which means, "My God, my God, why have...

Five years ago I retired from the NHS. My three days a week at Bournemouth were replaced by two consultants working between them ten and hal...

I have written before about darkness at noon but now we come to this verse in the exposition of Mark's gospel. For those who are new to...

After storms that caused a couple of shipwrecks and snow in the north, today was a still and clear day with bright sunshine. It was fairly c...

Professor Howdy has a joke that he often recycles which purports to tell of a professor asking his class about opposites. "What is the ...

One of the things I am going to do in my retirement (if I get any encouragement) is write fiction. Here is the first page. _________________...

'Natural' is a word that raises my hackles. A story is told of an old gardener who was confronted by the local parson who admired th...

Maria lives in a village in South America with no water. Everyday she must walk 5 miles to the spring to fetch water. She carries her two wa...

"Even if I have to die with you, I will not disown you." said Simon Peter. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? "Simon...

Am I alone in being irritated by the phrase, "We and others have found..."? You see it often in scientific papers, often those wri...

Wailing and gnashing, a just desert For long lives spent inflicting hurt. But for the toothless what’s beneath? The answer is, of course, ne...

Do you recall the silver street The moon had painted on the lake? At last the contact was complete And mutual signals no mistake. Do you reg...

The mean corpuscular volume is the most important of the red cell indices. It measures the average size of the red cells. A red cell is main...

The graffito was discovered in 1857, when a building called the domus Gelotiana was unearthed on the Palatine Hill. The emperor Caligula had...