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August 28, 2009
Category: Public Health
...and the steel hits the flesh. Mark Rosenberg, MD, representing the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research, had an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe. He makes a good point about health. It is not just doctors...
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August 27, 2009
Category: Medicine
The health care reform process is getting extremely ugly. Healthcare insurers get upper hand Obama's overhaul fight is being won by the industry, experts say. The end result may be a financial 'bonanza.' LA Times By Tom Hamburger and Kim...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:05 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 24, 2009
Category: Politics
A fair amount has been written about the topic of motivated reasoning. Jonah Lehrer explains the relationship between motivated reasoning and the political process; Orac addresses the issue with regard to quantum woo. (Plus more at Mixing Memory, here)...
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August 23, 2009
Category: Armchair Musings
Some irreverent souls have taken to Sunday blogging on a freethinking themes. I choose to Ozymandize* that which we worship the most: our economic system. That plant in the middle is my mimosa (Albizia julibrissin) tree, the one I am...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 22, 2009
Category: Chatter
IEEE reports that chicken feathers are superior to carbon nanotubes: Scientists at the University of Delaware say that carbonized chicken feathers could be a cheap way to store hydrogen for fuel cells. According to chemical engineering professor Richard Wool, the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 10:44 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 19, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
It is refreshing to see something like this. Both drugs are available as generics, so the financial motivation for a study like this is not great. But the clinical benefit could e substantial, albeit for a small subset of patients....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:34 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 13, 2009
At the Lawrence Hall of Science, at the University of California - Berkeley, there is a children's playground. On the playground, theere is a whimsical sculture based on DNA. Lots of people like it. Indeed, Dr. Stemwedel wrote a post...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:55 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
I haven't been a good blog-citizen lately. And no, it is not because of fatigue. Anyway, I've going to try to get back to looking at other people's blogs more, and not just here at ScienceBlogs. Dr. Serani kindly pointed...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:15 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 10, 2009
Category: Social Commentary
The way that the debate over health care is being conducted is brazen and disturbing. If it turns out to be a flashpoint for violence -- as it may -- it will be profoundly ironic: our efforts to improve health...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 1:23 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 6, 2009
Category: Chatter
This is good. Indeed, it may qualify as the type specimen (holotype) of snark. From The New Yorker: It's So Obvious From Avi Zenilman, online news editor, The New Yorker: Do you think the right is upset about President...
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