Parents forget three-year-old at airport

From the Independent: Doh!!!

Parents forget three-year-old at airport

From the Independent: Doh!!!

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Some time ago, Linus Pauling, an atomic scientist, suggested that vitamin C could be used to cure cancer; his research was discredited (the link is from 1999; the papers discussed in it date from the 1980s).

So I was surprised to hear about this just now.

Although Googling "vitamin C cancer" shows me that lots of research has been going on, with a variety of different results.

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Some time ago, Linus Pauling, an atomic scientist, suggested that vitamin C could be used to cure cancer; his research was discredited (the link is from 1999; the papers discussed in it date from the 1980s).

So I was surprised to hear about this just now.

Although Googling "vitamin C cancer" shows me that lots of research has been going on, with a variety of different results.

Edinburgh Jazz: Phil Bancroft Quartet

My first gig of this year’s jazz festival was the Phil Bancroft Quartet at the Hub – indeed, all but one of the gigs I went to was at the Hub (in contrast to last year, where all but one was at the Spiegel Tent). It was a hot Saturday afternoon, and I didn’t feel like sitting in a darkened hall listening to jazz; but this quartet quickly blew the cobwebs away.

They played a varied set – Bancroft explained how he liked different styles of music to do different things emotionally – and the tunes spanned a dynamic range, drummer Stu Ritchie somehow achieving the wonderful feat of being energetic and driving whilst playing with care, precision and – best of all – quietly: Ritchie was excellent.

But then this band has pedigree, with the wonderful Aidan O’Donnell on bass and Paul Harrison on piano. It was a fun gig – the music seemed to express Bancroft’s quirky humour – and the playing was excellent throughout.

Bancroft said that someone had told him he looked like the recently discovered Radovan Karadzic, and we shouldn’t be surprised if UN forces burst in to drag him off to the Hague; but the person behind me said he looked rather more like Hagrid.

(How come Aidan O'Donnell doesn't have a website? He doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry. I think I shall have to rectify this...)

Edinburgh Jazz: Phil Bancroft Quartet

My first gig of this year’s jazz festival was the Phil Bancroft Quartet at the Hub – indeed, all but one of the gigs I went to was at the Hub (in contrast to last year, where all but one was at the Spiegel Tent). It was a hot Saturday afternoon, and I didn’t feel like sitting in a darkened hall listening to jazz; but this quartet quickly blew the cobwebs away.

They played a varied set – Bancroft explained how he liked different styles of music to do different things emotionally – and the tunes spanned a dynamic range, drummer Stu Ritchie somehow achieving the wonderful feat of being energetic and driving whilst playing with care, precision and – best of all – quietly: Ritchie was excellent.

But then this band has pedigree, with the wonderful Aidan O’Donnell on bass and Paul Harrison on piano. It was a fun gig – the music seemed to express Bancroft’s quirky humour – and the playing was excellent throughout.

Bancroft said that someone had told him he looked like the recently discovered Radovan Karadzic, and we shouldn’t be surprised if UN forces burst in to drag him off to the Hague; but the person behind me said he looked rather more like Hagrid.

(How come Aidan O'Donnell doesn't have a website? He doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry. I think I shall have to rectify this...)