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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine focusing in Neuroscience. He is due to graduate in 2032. He received a BS and a MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University -- where he spent most of his time drinking heavily and building vegetable catapults instead of learning information that would now be eminently useful. When he is not failing terrifically to perform his sworn duties, he enjoys watching bad movies, ethnic food, and running.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
Jake is joined periodically by two wonderful guest bloggers: Kara Contreary and Kate Seip. See the About Page.
DISCLAIMERS: 1) Jake Young is not a licensed physician (yet). He is merely a medical student. The information published on this site is not intended for use in medical decision making. Please seek advice from a licensed, medical professional before making any health decisions. 2) The opinions expressed are my own or those of my co-bloggers. They do not represent the views of SEED magazine or the educational establishments we currently attend.
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Have you ever said any of the following? 1) That Jake fellah (or other ScienceBlogger) has insightful things to say. By Heaven, I would like to meet him and discuss said insights. 2) That Jake fellah (or other ScienceBlogger) is...
Posted on July 22, 2008 10:47 AM • 1 Comments •
Methinks this article from the NYTimes is a tad hysterical: They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece -- not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a...
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Posted on April 7, 2008 11:23 AM • 5 Comments •
Happy New Year to everyone! I'm back from my lovely New Years vacation, and I wanted to take a moment to look back on my first full year as a blogger for ScienceBlogs.com. (This will be for the last year...
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Posted on January 3, 2008 11:35 AM • 3 Comments •
Here at Seed we take pride in at least pretending to not be English-centric. I mean yours-truly is actually horrible at languages. There was an abortive attempt to learn Mandarin in my past that culminated in me only knowing when...
Posted on December 11, 2007 2:29 PM • 0 Comments •
I don't know if you caught it on these two posts, but I have started to add the Blogging on Peer-Reviewed Research Icon whenever I am analyzing a peer-reviewed paper specifically....
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Posted on October 31, 2007 2:06 PM • 0 Comments •
The illustrious Shelley Batts, fellow ScienceBlogger and author of Retrospectacle, has been nominated for a blogging scholarship for yet another year -- she won some money last year as a runner -up. Shelley is an excellent blogger and a truly...
Posted on October 9, 2007 3:57 PM • 1 Comments •
An anonymous medical blogger in Texas is being sued by a hospital for defamation and for releasing patient information: An unlikely Internet frontier is Paris, Texas, population 26,490, where a defamation lawsuit filed by the local hospital against a critical...
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Posted on October 1, 2007 3:42 PM • 1 Comments •
I know some of the others (among them Jason) have talked about this, but I thought I would mention it. The May 4th issue of Cell has an article by Laura Bonetta about scientific blogging. Money quote: The concept of...
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Posted on May 7, 2007 12:57 PM • 2 Comments •
I don't know if you caught this story, but one of our fellow bloggers here at ScienceBlogs, Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle, was threatened with legal action when she reproduced a figure from a published paper in one of her blog...
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Posted on April 26, 2007 2:02 PM • 0 Comments •
The Eli Lilly leaked documents story has exploded. Just to recap, on Dec. 17th last year the NYTimes reported on documents leaked from Eli Lilly that show that the company tried to play down the side effects of Zyprexa, a...
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Posted on January 19, 2007 10:53 AM • 3 Comments •
Our own Bora Zivkovic, proprietor of A Blog Around the Clock, has been editting an anthology of the best science blog posts of 2006. Yours truly was lucky enough to be included for this post on Floyd Landis several months...
Posted on January 16, 2007 10:00 AM • 0 Comments •
If you hadn't heard yet, Time's Person of the Year is...well...You. The thrust of their argument is that New Media is user-generated media, and sites like blogs, MySpace, and YouTube are changing the way that we create and distribute information....
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Posted on December 21, 2006 9:42 AM • 5 Comments •
This is super interesting. Acephalous is trying to measure the speed of a meme -- an infectious idea -- as it spreads through the blogosphere. More importantly, he is trying to figure out whether they spread from the bottom up...
Posted on November 28, 2006 5:13 PM • 0 Comments •
Not cool, Egypt: Police in Cairo have detained a blogger whose posts have been critical of the Egyptian government. Rami Siyam, who blogs under the name of Ayyoub, was detained along with three friends after leaving the house of a...
Posted on November 20, 2006 11:33 PM • 1 Comments •
Matthew Yglesias has a great satire on the hysterionics in the MSM about blogging:...
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Posted on June 26, 2006 11:46 PM • 1 Comments •
