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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.

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Elsewhere on the Interweb (7/22/08)

Category: Other People's Work
Posted on: July 22, 2008 10:56 AM, by NotoriousLTP

We were discussing game theory and the Dark Knight. Mike at The Quantitative Peace has an excellent post that discusses all the possible iterations:

I think this calls for a new villian in the third movie of the trilogy: The Game Theorist. Much like the riddler, but deadlier and requiring Batman to use mathematics to fight crime.

Encephalon is up at Sharp Brains. My personal favorite: therapy applications of Dungeons and Dragons.

Mercifully, a gas tax holiday is dead in the water -- in this case due to fears of lost jobs due to the diversion of money from the Highway fund.

An 81 year-old man in Britain earned his PhD from Cambridge after an 18 year project. Better late than never.

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Thank you for the link. You have directed a sizable amount of traffic our way.

Posted by: Michael Allen | July 23, 2008 6:47 PM

Thanks! Derek Colanduno of Skepticality podcast was of great help when discussing how the game contributed to his rehab after a stroke. I wonder if he'd make a good new villian for the Batman series? I think his little pugdog would have to feature in some way though... ;)

Posted by: Podblack | July 24, 2008 4:24 PM