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November 29, 2009
Category: Photos of Interest
While we have a cold, dreary rain here: a photo of brighter, hotter times: This is from September 2007. It is a desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister) on a desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) with some desert marigolds (Baileya multiradiata) in...
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November 27, 2009
Category: Environment
Environmental regulations have greatly reduced the amount of sulfur in gasoline. This has created many benefits. But did you ever wonder what happens to all that sulfur? Perhaps not, if it was never clear to you why you should care....
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November 24, 2009
Category: Academia
The USA still leads the world int he number of scientific papers published per year. Germany and Japan were essentially tied for second, for years. According to a recent report by Thomspon-Reuters ISI, there is a new player at the...
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November 23, 2009
Category: Politics
Is there some kind of especially violent undercurrent right now, in the right-wing river of hate? Ed Brayton just posted about a billboard put up by the GOP, specifically the Lafayette County (Missouri) Republicans: The sign (bigger view in new...
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November 20, 2009
Category: Social Commentary
Reasonable persons still wonder why some others insist that permitting gay marriage will threaten heterosexual marriage. Now we find out: it happens as an unintended consequence. Take Texas (please): Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages By Dave...
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November 18, 2009
Category: Social Commentary
A meme making the rounds in some circles is this: Prayer for Obama, Psalm 109:8. This is what is known as an imprecatory prayer, that is, a prayer that expresses ill will toward another. This particular bit of verse...
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November 17, 2009
Category: Psychiatry
The title of this article is a little bit misleading, although not deliberately so. The study examined the question of whether telephonic CBT - added to pharmacotherapy - was beneficial, in a primary care population. Note that the primary care...
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November 15, 2009
Category: Medicine
Actually, this is only good news for coffee drinkers who also have late-stage hepatitis C. A recent study in Hepatology showed a possible benefit to coffee consumption in patients with hepatitis C, First I will show the treatment of the...
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November 9, 2009
Category: Psychiatry
The article I am discussing in this post is the 2008 Heinz Lehmann Award paper, published in the open-access Canadian journal, Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience. It really covers two topics: translational research, and antipsychotic polypharmacy in which one of...
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November 5, 2009
Category: Psychiatry
The standard wisdom in management of Major Depression, is that medication plus psychotherapy is better that either treatment alone. Many studies have shown this. But this one does not. Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy and Brief Supportive Psychotherapy for...
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