A Californian case-cotrol study published online November 2012 in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests a link between traffic pollution and autism in children.
There are a number of exercise machines – mainly treadmills and some exercise bicycles, that interface with Google Maps to make exercise more interesting. A cheap DIY solution is to use a reed relay closed by a magnet to operable the up arrow on a keyboard. A lot cheaper, but is does […]
Exercise machines and Google Maps
Biometric scales using a tor-print to identify the perosn
Biometric Scales using toe-print
High powered torch circumvents Austrain ban on high powered lasers
Circumventing Australia’s handheld laser ban
National Academies Press is a great, free resource of US Government publications
National Academies Press
Standards Australia will release a revison of AS1668 mid 2012 on building ventilation to cover mechanical and natural ventilation. This will afafct IAQ assessments.
Review of Australian Ventilation Code
Benjamin Franklin sold an asbestos purse to a London collector, Hans Sloane, later President of the Royal Society who gave it to the British Museum.
Benjamin Franklin’s asbestos purse
The opportunity to view workplaces remotely with additional sound and instrument data streams is just just around the corner.
Street View and Occupational Hygiene
Keeping up with advances in the understanding of occupational diseases is difficult for occupational hygienists, as most of these advances are outside the scope of occupational hygiene.
Occupational Asthma
The Scientific American September 2001 has an article by Joan Raymond The Shape of a Nose that has implications for inhalation toxicology. [The original article is Noback, M. L., K. Harvati, et al. (2011). “Climate-related variation of the human nasal cavity.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145(4): 599-614] “Scientists have long been interested in the relation between […]