http://nocto.com Kirsty Darbyshire's weblog. Intermittently updated since back in the twentieth century. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:05:42 +0000 nocto http://delicious.com/url/608438cfa1ece915fcef4d0fed19b76a#nocto http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm/feed/ 0 http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:05:42 +0000 nocto http://www.delicious.com/url/608438cfa1ece915fcef4d0fed19b76a#nocto http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm/feed/ 0 http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:05:42 +0000 nocto tag:feeds.delicious.com://c670605f36f287053ed83d0c40e50862 Totally fascinating article about how we knew the cure to scurvy from at least the 15th century, but how circumstances conspired such that we couldn't get it to work in the early 20th century. Good look at how and why science is hard.

]]> http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm/feed/ 0