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Small profile avatar.jpg Abel Pharmboy is the nom de plume of David J Kroll, a US state university educator and cancer researcher who holds a PhD in Pharmacology and Therapeutics and BS in Toxicology. He writes on natural product drugs and dietary supplements, issues of under-represented groups in the STEMM disciplines, science and medical journalism, the science and culture of North Carolina, Florida, and Colorado, making and listening to music and, with the help of his colleague, Erleichda, wine appreciation.

"Why Terra Sigillata?" will tell you more about the origin of the blog name.

Please read the DISCLAIMER for details on the blog's intended audience, advertising and comment policy, and how not to use the information presented herein.

For the record, this is a personal blog and any content or opinions expressed are solely the author's and do not reflect those of his university employer or funding agencies. He does get a bit ornery from time to time.

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April 29, 2008

Last call for entries - NC Primary edition of Tar Heel Tavern

Category: Blog carnivals

Offer extended through Friday! Friday! Friday! 2 May!!!! Submit entries to tarheeltavern.abel at gmail. For the first time since I've lived here, the NC primary will actually matter especially given that Clinton and Obama appear to now be running neck-and-neck...

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April 28, 2008

Hot peppers love birds; mammals, not so much

Category: Pharmacology

Well, not only am I weaseling out of posting original content today but I'm going to direct you to an excellent repost by Bora Zivkovic at A Blog Around the Clock. I am often asked why plants expend the bioenergetic...

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April 26, 2008

Co-blogger or not? And, if so, whom?

Category: Personal

Is a better blog a more frequent blog with multiple voices?

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April 25, 2008

Too many women physicians are ruining medicine

Category: Women in science and medicine

Two essays in BMJ earlier this month feed a BusinessWeek article that is generating rancor and sober discussion.

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Share your poor-student recipes with Jake

Category: Graduate Education

How to eat healthy with minimal financial resources. Your ideas?

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April 24, 2008

Kevin, MD, and Dr Val on Doctor Anonymous BlogTalkRadio tonight

Category: Blogging community

Physician-bloggers in the e-flesh tonight online.

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April 23, 2008

GlaxoSmithKline to buy Sirtris

Category: Pharmaceuticals

Real science applied to natural CAM therapies might equal real medicine.

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April 22, 2008

I Am Naughty - Grand Rounds 4.31

Category: Blogging community

Naughty for forgetting to submit a post for this week's carnival of the medical blogosphere.

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April 21, 2008

Call for Entries - Tar Heel Tavern NC Primary Edition

Category: Blogging community

If you've ever lived or trained in NC, let the world know about this place in time for the 6 May Democratic primaries.

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April 20, 2008

Salazar proposes National Historic Landmark designation for Ludlow Massacre site

Category: Archaeology

Today's remembrance of the miners, their wives and children massacred by the Colorado National Guard and a then Rockefeller-run coal company reminds us of what working for a living really meant.

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