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February 29, 2008
Category: Drug Fatality
I have a tendency to refer to data from the Monitoring the Future study with some frequency. Unfortunately I've been too lazy to post the critical data figures for your entertainment. Until today DearReader. One example of which I am...
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February 27, 2008
Category: Blogging
One of the kids over at bayblab wants a shot at the title and so s/he's thrown down a little smack. Tried to start some beef with ScienceBlogs. The main critiques appear to be the fact that SB bloggers get...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:30 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Careerism
Propter Doc published an interesting post today concerning her to-do list, which she characterized as more of a pyramid: At the top there is a task, with some kind of importance. Not necessarily the most important thing to me, but...
Posted by PhysioProf at 7:23 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2008
Jonah Lehrer has a piece up on The Frontal Cortex pointing to an entry from n+1 on the diversion of prescription Adderall® for non-treatment purposes in college students. There's also an older piece on Slate which can only be described...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 12:42 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2008
Category: MDMA
As a brief update on my posts on the clinical use of MDMA (Part 1, Part 2) I'll note that the MAPS folks are trumpeting the initiation of yet another clinical trial with extra oomph because it is at dear...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:11 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognition
In the midst of World War I, Wolfgang Köhler conducted a famous series of experiments to investigate problem solving ability in chimpanzees. The lasting impression of these experiments, reinforced by just about every introductory Psychology text, was Köhler's assertion that...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:35 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2008
Category: Blogging
I've recently run across the Thesis - with Children blog penned by acmegirl. I think you'll like this one DearReader......
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:28 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2008
Category: Public Health
Abel Pharmboy liveblogged his own vasectomy today. This takes some serious cajones, my friend. And it was all for a greater purpose: But the very serious part of this post is to educate men on how mild a vasectomy is...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 11:54 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Scientific Misconduct
A recent post over at Adventures in Ethics and Science challenges "senior" scientists by asking "Hey you! Yes, YOU! What have you done to improve the snakepit?". I'm not exactly a "senior" scientist but when did a little quibble like...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:15 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2008
Category: NIH Budgets and Economics
Uncertain Chad responds to a reader suggestion regarding the cost of the Human Genome Project: The Human Genome Project (yes, you have to pronounce those capitals) cost about $3 billion. If $3 billion were yours to spend on scientific research,...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 7:59 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
