I wanted to write 150 blog posts this year, but clearly that was way too optimistic. This is the 52nd post of the year and probably the last one for 2024. Not bad honestly. Next month this blog will be 20 years old!
Alaa's mother Dr. Laila Soueif is entering her 81st day of her hunger strike to free her son. Her protest seems to be ignored by the Egyptian and UK governments. She lost …
24 years ago, I came home from medical school with a borrowed CD-ROM of the real-time strategy (RTS) game Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun. I got home at 4pm, put the CD in the Creative CD-ROM drive tray and suddenly it was 4am in the morning.
I am not a big fan of RTS games but they are incredibly addictive and fun. Just recently that I found out that older Command & Conquer games are being kept …
Last Wednesday, we had a case presentation at the hospital that was held live on Microsoft Teams with the Maudsley Hospital / IoPPN Grand Rounds. It was hybrid, meaning some psychiatrists participated online (103) and some did in person at our conference room (25) and at the Wolfson Lecture Theatre in London (80).
We were invited by the Academic Lead for the Maudsley Grand Rounds, who was chairing the event, based on the recommendation from one …
I enjoyed reading this trilogy so much. It was full of massive ideas, mind-bending twists and turns, and the story was full of awe-inspiring and mind-blowing moments.
This sci-fi trilogy has a large number of fans online, but if you read the reviews you will find that they are mixed, and the reason for this is that although it is a hard sci-fi book, the author decided to break some unbreakable laws of physics and …
While reading The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin, which I am enjoying very much, I fell into a Wikipedia rabbit hole.
I wanted to read more about our Sun, this led me to reading a bit about nuclear fusion which in turn made me read a bit about deuterium which then sent me indirectly to this paper about the 'D Switch'.
Di Martino, R.M.C., Maxwell, B.D. & Pirali, T. Deuterium in drug …
This post is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
As clinicians we are required to keep up with new knowledge in our fields. However, this isn't always possible as a lot of research is published in journals that don't offer free full text of their articles.
Not all of us work in places that can afford institutional access to scientific journals and sometimes when we do, this access …
I had some time to kill one evening so I edited the CSS of this blog. I removed the sidebar and simplified the navigation. I think it is also more mobile friendly. I only tested it on Firefox and Lynx though.
It is a big departure from the Pelican theme I started with. Editing themes on Pelican is much easier and more forgiving than on Drupal and the process of tinkering with HTML templates and …
ما عندناش في البيت طبق استقبال القنوات التلفزيونية الفضائية (أو ما يعرف بالدِش 📡) ومكتفين بنتفلكس ويوتيوب وبلكس، لكن قبل الأولمبياد كنا عاوزين نعرف لو فيه خدمة ما على الأنترنت ينفع نشترك فيها علشان نتفرج على المسابقات المختلفة في الأولمبياد السنة دي.
رحنا أحد المراكز التجارية الكبيرة علشان نشترك في بي إن سبورتس لمدة شهر لكن للأسف أكتشفنا أننا لازم يكون عندنا دِش ونشتري جهاز مخصوص ثمنه خمسة ألاف جنيه ونشترك سنة كاملة …
Drawing by Gianluca Costantini, slightly modified to minimise file size.
Update 2024-10-28: Omar's detention orders keep getting extended every 15 days. Each time via video link. He hasn't seen the prosecution face-to-face since his arrest.
Update 2024-08-19: ✍️ Friends and supporters of Ashraf Omar started an online petition demanding his release. Please sign this petition here. It will be forwarded to human rights and press freedom organizations.
Update 2024-08-18: He received another 15 days 😔
Update 2024-08-05 …
مع انتشار شاشة الموت الزرقاء BSOD المايكروسوفتية في مطارات وبنوك العالم، انتشرت في شوارع حي التجمع بالقاهرة الجديدة شاشة "حتى لا ننسى" على كل الشاشات الإعلانية المطلة على شارع التسعين، بثت الشاشات فيديوهات بروبجندا لإنعاش ذاكرة المواطن المصري بجرائم جماعة الإخوان مصاحب لها بالبنط العريض جملة "الإخوان جماعة إرهابية" ومشاهد دموية عنيفة في صباح يوم العطلة الأسبوعية قبل الصلاة.
بث شاشات شارع التسعين كان رد فعل من الدولة لما حدث من يومين في شارع فيصل …