Archimedes October 2021: Metal heads, egg building and ship steering

BMJ talk medicine

Have you ever had a question you thought … “OOOO! That’s an Archimedes in waiting that is!”. Well, join in the footsteps of those who have climbed the craggy path through submission, review, Editorial Board and onwards to the sunny pastures of ‘Online First’ and eventually the Paper Journal (where, like one of our colleagues, your Gran can try and order one from the newsagents because she’s so proud of you). The Grannies being delighted this month will be able to learn all about if their migrainous adolescent grandchildren will benefit from magnesium to reduce their headache frequency of severity (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/10/1027), and far from benign taught to suck eggs they may have their perception of weaning foods challenged when it comes to egg introduction to the diet of four month olds (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/10/1024.1). Their wisdom will be already full of the knowledge that just because something’s always been this way doesn’t make it right, but they may like to hear about how we think momentum and inertia apply in medicine too (and here’s the ship-related podcast that’s mentioned: https://timharford.com/2019/11/cautionary-tales-ep-1-danger-rocks-ahead/) https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/10#Archimedes https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/10/1024.2