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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: Law
You have got to be friggin' kidding me!? Kathleen Seidel, blogger at neurodiversity.com, has been subpoenaed by Rev. Lisa Sykes and Seth Sykes to appear in their case against the Bayer company. Their case alleges that mercury additives to vaccines...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 7:51 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Law
Thanks to Marginal Revolution for this astonishing story. It refers to a man who sued his wife's new lover for damages on the grounds that the new beau had alienated his wife from him. And the guy won! All Arthur...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:49 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
Jeffrey Rosen has an excellent piece in the NYTimes magazine about the increasing use of neurological arguments in the courts: One important question raised by the Roper case was the question of where to draw the line in considering neuroscience...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:41 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Law
Stuart Taylor has an interesting article on Supreme Court predictions in the National Journal. He doesn't see a dramatic shift rightward happening: Abortion. The Roberts Court has already voted in a big abortion case, on the constitutionality of the federal...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:50 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Law
A 17-year-old man under suspicion for attempted murder is refusing to have a 9-mm bullet removed from his forehead. Prosecutors claim that the bullet, which is lodged just under the skin, could prove that the man was involved in a...
Posted by Kara Contreary at 8:10 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Massachusetts et al. v. EPA. In the case, several state governments are suing the EPA for failing to regulate CO2 as a greenhouse gas. There are many levels of legal conflict on...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:27 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Here is an audio recording of the oral arguments in the case of Gonzales vs. Carhart (as an mp3). Gonzales vs. Carhart is a case about the federal partial birth abortion ban: The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:19 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Law
Yikes. You just can't win with embryos: Pasko Rakic of Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut and his team were similarly scanning experimental mice, to help inject dye into embryos. When later studying the brain development of these mice,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:15 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Law
Gov. Schwarzenegger and Tony Blair are endeavoring to create a California and Great Britain global warming pact, to pool their efforts in lowering CO2 emissions: Britain and California are preparing to sidestep the Bush administration and fight global warming together...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:40 PM • 3 Comments •
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