October 19, 2013

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  • Nature, the well-known science journal, has a new ‘Nature Graphics‘ tumblr with art, infographics, and some actual graphics with information.
  • The Herald reports the WHO has listed outdoor air pollution as a leading cause of cancer. They don’t point out that air pollution is going down in most of New Zealand.
  • The Herald also has an interesting report of someone getting a deep-vein thrombosis after a long gaming session. Sitting still for long periods has been known to have this risk since WWII, when cases turned up in Britain in air-raid shelters, but the risk is small.  For long plane flights, the risk of death from a blood clot is about one in a million, but more than ten times that many will need hospital treatment.
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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »