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September 29, 2006

Union of Concerned Scientists Cartoon Contest

Category: Science in the Media

The voting closes tomorrow, so be sure to go vote for your favorite. This is from a selection of political cartoons, in the "Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest."...

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ER Problems; Insurance Problems

Category: Medicine

These two things might be connected.  The Washington Post reported yesterday on the findings of a CDC report on emergency room preparedness.  The Economic Policy Institute reported on further erosion in health insurance coverage. Crowded ERs Raise Concerns On Readiness...

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September 28, 2006

Taking the Cephalopod to the Bank

Category: Photos of Interest

The food bank, that is.  This is from a sculpture contest.  The rule: everything had to be made entirely from canned foodstuffs.  The canned food is to be donated to a food bank in LA. TENTACLE SPECTACLE: “A Call...

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September 27, 2006

What Ever Happened to Haveman? What is the Defense Business Board?

Category: Politics

On the way home from work, one day last week, I heard some excerpts from the book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. (Chandrasekaran also has some articles in the Washington Post, here:...

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September 26, 2006

Name That Scientist #1

Category: Photos of Interest

Who is this?  The first in a series of not-very-challenging science questions... Notice the resemblance to one of our ScienceBloggers. This bust is in an engineering building on the University of Michigan's North Campus.  ...

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Red Crossbills

Category: Photos of Interest

These are red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) photographed by Elaine R. Wilson.  She kindly uploaded the photo to Wikipedia, where it was voted Feature Picture of the Day.  Note: the image is copyrighted, but the copyright holder permits the photo...

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Chilies To Drive For

Category: Personal

Someone around these parts was writing about chilies recently, but failed to mention the best: Mesilla Valley chilies.  Zingerman's sells "New Mexico chilies."  Although it would be better for them to specify "Mesilla Valley" chilies, the vast majority of New...

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Toliet Paper Expert

Category: Humor

The Detroit Free Press has a brief article on a book, Wierd Michigan, by Linda Godfrey.  One choice selection: Bill Jarrett, 81, of Wyoming, a self-described authority on toilet paper who's out to solve a great debate: Should the loose...

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September 25, 2006

Linkfest Monday II

Category: Social Issues

I am not feeling well today, so here is a low-overhead (for me) set of links.  Anything thoughtful that goes up here yesterday, today, or tomorrow was written ahead of time, and scheduled.  The last one was from science news....

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Linkfest Monday

Category: Science News

I am not feeling well today, so here is a low-overhead (for me) set of links.  Anything thoughtful that goes up here yesterday, today, or tomorrow was written ahead of time, and scheduled.  Anyway, here goes: Stem Cell Transplantation Safely...

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The Infamous Doughnut Hole: Why It Is Very Bad

Category: Medicine

One of the nutty aspects of the Medicare prescription drug program is the so-called "doughnut hole."  The doughnut hole occurs once the beneficiary reaches a certain spending limit.  This is described in a recent Washington Post article: Under the standard...

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I Had A Dream

Category: Personal

...That the hospital I work in finally installed an electronic medical record system.  I was messing around with it and discovered that the hospital administration had accessed a record of a sleep study the hospital had done on me.  It...

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More About the EPA's Malfeasance

Category: Environment

This is a follow-up to yesterday's post.  Yesterday, I pointed out that the EPA ignored the advice of its own scientists in developing new rules for fine particulate matter pollution.  Now, we hear what some of those experts have to...

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Be Nice To America

Category: Politics

...or we'll bring democracy to your country. HT: Saline...

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September 24, 2006

Republican War on Science: Particulate Matter Pollution Edition

Category: Environment

Frank O'Donnell, writing at TomPaine.com, has an article about the RWOS as applied to clean air regulation.  It turns out that the EPA has developed new air quality standards for the control of particulate matter pollution.  But the new rules...

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September 23, 2006

Business grad students most likely to cheat

Category: Social Commentary

There is no additional comment needed; the study speaks for itself: Business grad students most likely to cheat: study Wed Sep 20, 2006 Reuters BOSTON (Reuters) - Graduate business students in the United States and Canada are more likely to...

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September 22, 2006

More Thoughts on DeVos and Chomsky

Category: Armchair Musings

Funny how sometimes things fall into place.  Yesterday, I wrote a post about DeVos' promotion of the teaching of Intelligent Design/Creationism.  I also heard that Hugo Chavez' mention of Noam Chomsky's book, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance,...

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September 21, 2006

DeVos Promotes Intelligent Design

Category: Politics

When I came home from work, and saw the headline: DeVos Backs Discussion of Intelligent Design, I knew I wanted to blog it.  Alas, I get the afternoon paper.  Ed Brayton gets the morning paper, and had already beaten me...

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Question for the Day

Category: Armchair Musings

If you decry the practice of "legislating from the bench," then why is it OK to legislate from the corporate boardroom?...

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The Foo Bar Is Closed

Category: Photos of Interest

The Foo Bar is closed. You will have to come back in the morning....

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September 20, 2006

Aaron Beck Wins Recognition

Category: Psychiatry

I find it interesting that one of the recipients of a Lasker Clinical Research Award this year was Aaron Beck.  Dr. Beck is a psychiatrist.  He is widely regarded as the originator of cognitive therapy. The rationale is outlined in...

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Green Computing

Category: Science News

I'll be curious to see if there turns out to be a parallel between what is happening now in the auto industry, and what happens in the future in the computing industry.   We recently passed the 25th anniversary of...

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September 19, 2006

White Tigers

Category: Photos of Interest

This is from the Chicago Tribune "Images in the News" feature.  Unfortunately, I saved it to my flash drive earlier in the week.  Now, it is no longer on their site, so I cannot provide the caption or the...

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The Difference Between Observations and Conclusions

Category: Armchair Musings

The tagline on my old blog was "Observation are gold; hypotheses, silver; and conclusions, bronze."  This reflects my philosophy, that observation is the fundamental source of all knowledge.  The father you go from your raw observations, the more likely you...

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Anyone Can Get Diebold Key

Category:

Now we learn that the keys that open Diebold voting machines are widely available on the Internet. These people are fools. The nutty thing is this: Diebold also makes ATMs. Are their ATMs constructed with such shoddy security? Probably not....

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September 18, 2006

Bot Under Construction

Category: Computing

Facetime Communications has announced that they have seen evidence of a new Internet worm that spreads via AOL Instant Messenger.  It comes in the guise of a picture, that is astually an executable file.   The user first sees an...

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Impeach Bush Yard Signs: Update

Category: Politics

The Impeach BUSH Yard Signs .org site is back online.  It was shut down for a few days because it was hosted on a site that got the Internet bandwidth from the County government.  Now it is on a private...

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Who is Stumpy, Anyway?

Category: Humor

Stumpy is a fabled Texan Tan tarantula, Aphonopelma anax,  that was hit by a car and nursed back to health with triple nail hardener.  I assume that is finger- and toenail hardener.   Stumpy had narrowly missed being yet another...

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World Opinion

Category: Social Commentary

The rest of the world would be laughing at us about this, if we did not have nuclear weapons....

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September 16, 2006

Single-Payer Universal Health Coverage

Category: Medicine

Yes! magazine is one of my favorite progressive publications.  The reason is that they tend to take a positive view of everything.  That is unlike a lot of politically-oriented publications, most of which somehow manage to make everything sound...

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Gender Gap Closing

Category: Politics

I missed this the first time around, but now I am "happy" to report that the gender pay gap is narrowing.  On August 31, 2006, just in time for Labor Day, the US Dept. of Labor issued a report that...

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September 15, 2006

What Linus Could Teach Congress

Category: Politics

What Congress set out to do, was to come up with ethics reform legislation that would show that they are addressing the concerns of the public, in the wake of numerous scandals.  Reportedly, though, both parties were reluctant to put...

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September 14, 2006

HPV Vaccine May Be Required in Michigan

Category: Medicine

GARDASIL®, the vaccine intended to prevent infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), was controversial even before it was approved by the FDA.   Debate rages on use of cervical cancer vaccine Rob Stein, Washington Post Monday, October 31, 2005 (10-31) 04:00...

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September 13, 2006

Impeach Bush Kerfuffle

Category: Humor

There's a kerfuffle in Washtenaw County, Michigan, over the use of a website that promotes the sale of "Impeach Bush" yard signs.  According to the Ann Arbor News, the host, Huron Valley Community Network, is "indirectly operated using Washtenaw County...

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September 12, 2006

Dune Patterns

Category: Photos of Interest

This is from the Nasa Earth Observatory site.  If you've ever been curious about the dynamics of sand dunes, be sure to go to their site and read the little essay on the subject....

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September 11, 2006

How Much Did It Really Change?

Category: Armchair Musings

All day we've been hearing about the terrorist attacks that took place on 9/11/2002.  We've heard especially from the families of victims, and from the workers who continue to have health problems.  Some of you probably even listened to our...

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XDR TB: Extreme Drug Resistant TB

Category: Medicine

The adjective extreme has been extremely overused in recent years.  For example, I recently saw a sign in a gas station that advertised an Extreme Meal Deal: a hot dog, chips, and soda for $2.49.   But Extreme Drug Resistant...

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Vagus Nerve Stimulation in the News

Category: Psychiatry

There is a lot of information about vagus nerve stimulation as a treatment for depression, that you can get from the latest New York Times article (Battle Lines in Treating Depression, permanent link) on the subject.  Unfortunately, most of the...

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Quote of the Day

Category: Politics

Actually, it was many days ago; but it still is relevant: Bush Sought ‘Way’ To Invade Iraq? During the campaign, candidate Bush had criticized the Clinton-Gore Administration for being too interventionist: "If we don't stop extending our troops all around...

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September 10, 2006

Suicide Prevention Day

Category: Psychiatry

Today is suicide prevention day.  Dr. Serani has the details here....

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September 9, 2006

Late to the Party, Again

Category: Personal

But this time, being late is further proof of my point.  (It would have proved it more convincingly if I never went to a party.) Additional evidence: in eighth grade, I got a book from the library to learn to...

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Dapoxetine for Premature Ejaculation

Category: Medicine

The little guy pictured to the left is dapoxetine, a drug under development for the treatment of premature ejaculation.   I wrote about this before, in the context of recent criticism of the pharmaceutical industry.  Some have argued that the...

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September 8, 2006

1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic Archive

Category: Medicine

Just a quick note to spread the word: The University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine has put up an online archive of material about the 1918 influezna pandemic. The 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive...

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Pharmaceutical Industry and Conflicts of Interest

Category: Bioethics

This has been a topic here at ScienceBlogs, and elsewhere.  In this post, I point out some of the blogosphere commentary, and provide links to some commentary published in journals that might otherwise escape widespread attention.  ...

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September 6, 2006

Albino Pygmy Monkey Twins

Category: Photos of Interest

This is a pair of twin albino pygmy monkeys, recently born at the Frösö Zoo in Ostersund, Sweden. They are featured in the National Geographic website's Photo in the News section.  Click on the photo to visit the site, and...

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September 5, 2006

Hooray For Macedonia!

Category: Science News

Via the Christian Science Monitor: Formerly a part of Yugoslavia, and on the brink of ethnic war only a few years ago, Macedonia has become what may be the first "wireless country" in the world. With $3.9 million from the...

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September 4, 2006

The Terrorism Index

Category: Social Issues

You might have seen the article, The Terrorism Index, in Foreign Policy magazine a while ago. If you did, here is a reminder of the high points. If you did not, go read the whole thing....

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September 3, 2006

Specialist Mark Wilkerson: Conscientious Objector

Category: Armchair Musings

A couple of days ago, I heard this interview on NPR, with Steve Inskeep.  Inskeep was interviewing Spc. Mark Wilkerson, just before he turned himself in for having gone AWOL. Wilkerson served one tour of duty in Iraq, but refused...

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The Mouse That Roared

Category: Social Commentary

I remember thinking about this film, shortly after the fall of Baghdad.  After yesterday's University of Michigan win over Vanderbilt, which happened on the anniversary of the surrender of Japan in 1945, I was reminded again.   From Wikipedia: The...

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September 2, 2006

Rising Health Expenses: A Good Value?

Category: Bioethics

The August 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has an interesting article with policy implications.  Unfortunately, they did not make this one freely accessible.   The authors argue that the increased medical costs that we faced between...

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