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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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Category: Friday Rants
Over for the last week I have been mulling whether I want to continue doing Friday Rants, and I have come to the conclusion that I think I going to end the whole business. It is not that they aren't...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:41 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Friday Rants
I haven't been in a large lecture for a while, but this semester I decided to take a course in introductory economics at a local community college for my own enrichment. The experience has reminded me why I was so...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:36 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Friday Rants
People, you suck. When I was younger (and less of a calloused bastard), I was willing to believe that human beings' pernicious behavior was restricted to particular unsavory individuals or select groups. Likewise, I would write off unscrupulous behavior as...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:29 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Herbal remedies and other Hooey
Complementary and alternative medicine has no business participating in mainstream science or medicine....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:51 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Friday Rants
My Friday rant about intellectuals triggered lots of interesting comments, both positive and negative. Treb: I know it was a "rant", but, wow, is it ever funny to hear someone rant that they are open-minded and someone else is not....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Friday Rants
Intellectuals, I have had it with your crap. I have had it with your Laputan thinking and your Utopian fantasies. I have had it with the assumption that people who do not instantaneously agree with you are somehow mentally deficient....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:55 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Friday Rants
That's right. I'm talking to you, Lou Dobbs of CNN. What fascinates me about you is that although you are a thug of at least comparable measure to Bill O'Reilly -- what with your nightly anti-immigrant rants -- your thuggery...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:04 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Friday Rants
Two commercials are driving me insane.
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:00 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Friday Rants
(Keeping in the promised theme of having rants on Fridays, here is rant number one. For those of you who are offended...well...I am going to have to say that it is Friday. The weekend is coming, and frankly I couldn't...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:37 AM • 28 Comments •
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