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March 31, 2007
Category: Politics
A while back, I posted about a nutty thing Eric Keroack said: PRE-MARITAL SEX is really MODERN GERM WARFARE... I was not the only one criticizing him; a total of six ScienceBloggers wrote about it. The reason was that Bush appointed...
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Category: Environment
Perhaps a minor issue in terms of national priorities: the Senate is considering a bill that would make nearly ll federal employees eligible for telecommuting. Senators Push for More Telecommuting By Stephen Barr Washington Post Friday, March 30, 2007; Page...
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March 30, 2007
Category: Antidepressants
A while back I started a series about the science and logic (and other factors) involved in the selection of antidepressant medication. I suppose I could put in the pinks to the first four parts, but anyone can use...
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March 28, 2007
Category: Politics
A few years ago, the more progressive elements in the Blogosphere were pressing for impeachment of the President. They were upset that the traditional media were not going along. Prior to the 2004 election, when you could not...
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March 27, 2007
Category: Social Commentary
According to the Corporate Crime Reporter, at least 257 companies have "backdating problems." That refers to the shady practice of backdating stock options, resulting in larger payouts to those who receive compensation in the form of stock options. But it...
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March 26, 2007
Category: Social Commentary
This is depressing. Now the UK is misusing and distorting scientific findings. I suppose it is contagious. This pertains to the Lancet study that found an estimated 50% increase in the risk of death in the immediate aftermath of the...
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March 24, 2007
Category: Medicine
Finally, we have a nice succinct statement from a politician on the subject of health care coverage. I know this is controversial, in the sense that, so far, the mainstream operatives in both major parties reject this. Still, I truly...
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Category: Social Commentary
"You go to war with the funding you got, not the funding you wish you had."...
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March 22, 2007
Category: Politics
What can you say? Arch Gen Psychiatry is one of those non-open-access journals that publishes one free-access article in each issue. Usually the free article is not particularly interesting; they do not seem to make use of the open-access...
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March 21, 2007
Category: Medicine
Yet Another Critique of Pay for Performance The concept of Pay for Performance is one of those things that seems sensible and appealing on the surface. But if there was ever a better example of the maxim, "the devil is...
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March 20, 2007
Category: Medicine
Not only that, but the genetically modified "organism" is an engineered HIV. At least, that is what researchers at Emory College in London are contemplating. Disabled Aids virus could provide cure for cystic fibrosis Mark Henderson, Science Editor March 19,...
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March 19, 2007
Category: Chatter
Sunday, I drank some unusually good tea. It was green tea, mostly, with some added ingredients: young hyson and dragonwell teas, orange peel, peppermint leaf, jasmine flowers, lemon verbena, marigold flowers, blue malva flowers, and pineapple flavor. It was...
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Category: Photos of Interest
National Geographic POD Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, March 13, 2007—For gentoo penguins, it's all about who's got the best rocks. Like a human offering jewelry, this gentoo male at the Edinburgh Zoo presents a large pebble on Tuesday in...
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Category: Medicine
Various ScienceBloggers have been thumping all over Egnor's case, which is a well-deserved thumping. The Egnor Challenge: Tooth Decay and Human Origins (afarensis) Pigheaded Egnorance, Antibiotic Resistance, and Tautologies (MarkCC) The Egnor challenge, day 2 (Orac) Michael Egnor, Paleyist...
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March 17, 2007
Category: Politics
I know people come here to read about psychiatry, mental health, neuroscience, and political/social issues related to those topics. No, scratch that, I have not idea why people come here. But this post is straight politics. Well, it's politics...
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March 16, 2007
Category: Humor
I must admit, I am pretty much a spoilsport when it comes to sports. Even though my colleagues have been stocking up and draining down PRBs all week, and chomping at their bits, and chafing at their straps, and frothing...
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Category: Humor
A while back, I posted a picture of this area's most expensive Pizza, from Pizza House in Ann Arbor. That one was only about $25. Now I see there is one that is a wee bit more than that: Meet...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:49 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 15, 2007
Category: Science News
Everyone's heard of blue lasers by now. Some people have them in their homes. The reason they are important, is that blue light has a shorter wavelength than the red lasers that were used in the first CD and DVD...
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March 14, 2007
Category: Medicine
Don't flush your old prescriptions, or other medications. They end up in the water, and that is bad. Just throw them away. If you are concerned about someone digging through your trash, then mix them with used kitty litter or...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:09 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science News
The playoffs are not even underway in the 2007 Science Spring Showdown, yet already the teams are maneuvering for any advantage they can get. The match-ups are so even, that everyone knows it is the intangibles that will make a...
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Category: Humor
Happy Pi-day!...
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March 13, 2007
Category: Psychiatry
I really liked Jonah's post at The Frontal Cortex, about Dreaming, Smelling and Memory. But I have to take issue with his treatment of the use of dream interpretation in Freudian psychotherapy. I know this is a nit-picky point,...
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March 12, 2007
Category: Environment
The draft for the IPCC report for this year paints a distinctly disturbing picture of the near future. We can expect changes in immigration patterns, and we will need to be prepared. So if you are opposed to immigration, you should support efforts to limit climate change.
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Category: Environment
One of the embarrassing things about Michigan Politics is that many of the national politicians, while generally fairly progressive, do not get on board with mandates for cars that pollute less. The auto makers argue that it would take...
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March 11, 2007
Category: Politics
There really isn't much to say about this, if you adhere to the notion that if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all... Verdict of perjury Sunday, March 11, 2007 Conviction of vice...
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Category: Personal
This is from a meme; Tikistitch has put up a list of the "Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years". I got this from Coturnix, who got it from Myers. John Wilkins has done it, too....
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March 10, 2007
Category: Photos of Interest
What would happen if Tux went to a famous portrait artist to get a makeover? Modigliani Botticelli This was done using the method described previously....
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March 9, 2007
Category: Politics
Privatized Walter Reed Workforce Gets Scrutiny Army Facility Lost Dozens Of Maintenance Workers By Steve Vogel and Renae Merle Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, March 10, 2007; Page A03 The scandal over treatment of outpatients at Walter Reed Army...
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Category: Psychiatry
...That is probably bad advice. Never take legal advice from someone who is not your lawyer. The only thing worse than taking legal advice from someone who is not your lawyer, is to take legal advice from somebody else's lawyer....
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March 8, 2007
Category: Chatter
This is supposedly the earliest known octopus, being from the middle Jurrasic, found in France. Think old. ...
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Category: Basic Concepts
The DSM refers to anhedonia as one of the two core symptoms of depression; the other core symptom is depressed mood itself. What is anhedonia, and why is it so important? First, let's consider what it is not. Those...
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March 7, 2007
Category: Computing
I've heard of case modding, but this is just going too far: What is this? It is a full-featured web server in a compact case. How is this possible? ...(below the fold)...
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Category: Medicine
At least that is what the headline says. Of course the article is not really about sex; the sex part is only a small part of the findings of the study. But headline writers know how to get attention. What...
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March 5, 2007
Category: Personal
A slice of Pizza House's large House Special deep dish pizza, which, at almost $25, is the most expensive pie listed on the menu of any pizzeria near Central Campus. (PETER SCHOTTENFELS/Daily) Those were the days...before I started taking...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment
A while back, I wrote (twice) about the nettlesome issue of endocrine disruptors. A more detailed post was offered at Terra Sig. The reason this is a nettlesome problem is that it is an area with potentially huge implications, but...
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March 4, 2007
Category: Photos of Interest
HT to :: the Core 4 :: for the link to the newest picture of Saturn. The complete image file is over 35MB. You would need a 4088x2908 monitor to see the whole thing at full resolution. This is one...
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Category: Politics
Point one: when sanctions were imposed upon Iraq after the first Gulf War, Iraqi children began starving. But we did not blame ourselves. After all, it was Mr. Saddam Hussein who chose to spend money on more palaces, rather than...
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March 2, 2007
Category: Science News
In case you did not know, there is going to be a lunar eclipse tomorrow night. By itself, that is not terribly unusual. What is unusual about this event, though, is that at some times and places, it will be...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:43 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
If you have ever been curious to know what the corpus callosum looks like in vivo, you can see it in this Google video: Pediatric Hemispherectomy Surgical Treatment For Epilepsy. The link starts the video at the point where they...
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March 1, 2007
Category: Personal
Since I started a little self-disclosure yesterday, I am going to continue that theme. Very few people know this about me. The fact is, I have congenital amusia. No, that does not mean I am "easily amused." It means I...
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