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19th June 2007

What I’ve Been Doing Today - 2007-06-19

1058 - A quiet half hour at work with no patients - so I’m looking at guitars online again - just over a month and I’ll be in Nashville! #
1318 - Picked up my espresso machine at lunchtime so I can finally have good cofffee again. Busy afternoon today - 3 Caesareans booked #

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19th June 2007

Junk week

It’s bulk rubbish collection time in our neighbourhood at the moment which means people can put large unwanted stuff on their lawn for a big council truck to come and cart away. Driving around the local streets you can see lots of old TVs, washing machines, car parts, exercise machines, furniture and all sorts of bric-a-brac out the front of peoples homes. It’s the one time when no-one seems to mind the neighbourhood looking like a mess. It’s also a great time for junk collectors - within hours of me putting a broken old bar fridge on our front lawn it was gone, and some other things Jenni put out were snapped up pretty fast. It’s like they say, one person’s trash is another one’s treasure.

One thought that always crosses my mind during this time is that it’s often just by copying others that we find out about bulk rubbish collection. Sometime’s they put signs out on major roads but I can’t remember seeing one over the last 2 weeks. If you wanted to play a serious practical joke on the whole suburb the thing to do would be to get together with a few neighbours and put some junk out, and see how many people copy. Then once others are starting to put their junk out you could bring yours back in, waiting for the real bulk collection week. Anyway it seems like a good prank to me .

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19th June 2007

WOTD - Paul Broca

Paul Broca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pierre Paul Broca (June 28, 1824 – July 9, 1880) was a French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France.

Broca was a brilliant student. He entered medical school in Paris when he was only 17 years old and graduated at 20, when most of his contemporaries were just beginning as medical students.

Broca soon became a professor of surgical pathology at the University of Paris. He quickly excelled as a noted medical researcher in many areas. At the age of 24 he had received many awards, medals, and important positions. His early scientific works dealt with the histology of cartilage and bone, but he also studied cancer pathology, the treatment of aneurysms, and infant mortality. One of his major concerns was the comparative anatomy of the brain. His celebrated paper refers to many animal species. As a neuroanatomist he made important contributions to the understanding of the limbic system and rhinencephalon. Olfaction was for him a sign of animality. His research on the localization of speech led to entirely new research into the lateralization of brain function.