Cabbage - [kab-ij] Chiefly British 1. a. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. 2. slang - verb. To steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth.

Cove - (kəʊv) Brit, Austral 1. old-fashioned , slang - a fellow; chap.

Cabbaging Cove: A scoundrel keen on pilfering [from the annals of not-so-distant history]!

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Posts tagged microbiology

  1. Patient Zero: Typhoid Mary, AIDS, and tracing the origin of contagious diseases

    biomedicalephemera:

    Radiolab has an excellent episode on epidemiology, AIDS, and disease carriers. The issues raised regarding medical privacy and public health are poignant, and the science of contagion is fascinating.

    Of course, anything including medicine, history, death, AND some (very well-explained) microbiology is impossible for me to resist. 

    Have a listen!

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