by Captain Skellett | Sep 13, 2010 | Science Communication
Yolŋu Matha is a language spoken by the Indigenous Australians of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. To the majority of the people in the communities, English is a second language. There’s a twelve year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous people and...
by Captain Skellett | Sep 8, 2010 | Drugs, Recent Research
Today’s schooner of science is literally science in a schooner. Plus it comes with a new career path – bioarcheologist, expert in ancient diets. George Armelagos is the bioarcheologist in question, and he’d been studying the ancient Nubians who lived...
by Captain Skellett | Aug 21, 2010 | Drugs
About a week ago I was in Gulgong, a small town in New South Wales near the wine region of Mudgee. The main road was spelled Mayne Road, and was brown stone rather than tarmac. Along the footpaths were old stone troughs for watering horses. Key landmarks included the...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 13, 2010 | Drugs, How Things Work, Recent Research, Science at Home
You’re at the doctors with a suspected infection, but instead of offering penicillin or erythromycin, they prescribe honey. Would you switch toast toppings? Take a honey pill? How about letting the doctor smear medical grade honey over the infected area? People...
by Captain Skellett | May 26, 2010 | Drugs
I have been sadly struck down with a cold. So it was with weary steps I took myself to the pharmacy to obtain suitable drugs, and plenty of them. I got capsules which contain paracetamol (painkiller,) phenylephrine (ineffective speed-like drug that used to be...
