Am I autistic, or am I just bad at social chitchat and a bit obsessive?Is my husband autistic, or does he just like documentaries about modifying cars? Surely I can’t be the only one who’s pondered questions like these. The good news is that there’s an actually an easy, free, instant way to find out.…
A report from the Osler Lecture, Meeting Minds, 2025, Oxford University. Speaker: Professor Sir Rory Collins, UK Biobank Principal Investigator, and one of TIME Magazine’s top 100 most influential people in health. What is the UK Biobank? I had heard of the UK Biobank before. Along with the Human Genome Project, I was vaguely familiar…
Gut Instinct: Why Microbial Diversity Matters – a talk by Professor Kevin Foster at Meeting Minds 2025, Oxford University I don’t think it will come as a surprise to many manual therapists out there that we are absolutely crawling with microbes (just to get clear on the wording: the word microbe is shorthand for, (and…
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