What Did I Learn Today 2

Thursday morning in sunny Brighton, I'm getting ready for the SJT exam tomorrow and getting a little sidetracked:

• Vegans and vegetarians have been in outrage in UK against the new five pound note as it contains tallow, an animal product. However, All the new five pound notes in circulation together contain the same amount of Tallow thats in only half a cow. 
• Paramedics in the UK are struggling with the number of calls, triple the number ten years ago, with increasing calls for things like needing a glass of water, a cold or cat bite. Check out a day with ambulance crews and BBC
• How to create simple and beautiful books using this website Blurb, my cousin recently documented his travels around Japan, the book is beautiful. 
• How to be a master when inserting chest drains
• Its WORLD AIDS DAY! a quick video summary by the NEJM of the ring study and ASPIRE studies. Here is the executive director of UNAIDS video message for today

What did I learn today

• As a predictor of early death loneliness surpasses even obesity. The following paper, a meta-analysis, concludes that social isolation and loneliness increases risk of mortality of ~30%. 
• A universal income could make life alot happier and creative, Alan Watts argues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhvoInEsCI0 (may even be a solution for an increasing global unemployment issue). 
• How to manage mild hypertension.
• The is no proven benefit of peer review and tonnes of evidence of the downsides of it. Fraud, repeatablity, slow, biased, luck can be involved, wasteful of scientific time, irrelevant, no quality assurance, inefficient and easily. The perils of Peer Review. 
• Free lessons on behavioural medicine
• The so called 'overjustification effect', that a reward can reinforce the belief that a task isnt worth doing. So rewarding children for doing chores or helping out is potentially a bad thing and rewarding yourself for goals an potentially be detrimental.
• How to teach medical students
• that OK GO are back with a new video: https://www.facebook.com/okgo/videos/10153836041340683/