AskaSciBlogger Question for June 28th
Category: Science Bloggers
How about this for example: Warum nicht sind wir aller sprechende Deutsche?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:22 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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June 28, 2006
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Category: Anti-smoking
It looks like this is the end for the 48 million smokers in this country who love to light up a Luckie in the neighborhood saloon or beanery. I wonder if our airports will be able to accommodate the mass number of citizens emigrating to Parisian apartments?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:15 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 27, 2006
A One Question Quiz
Category: Lyrical
To find out that your hospital is being replaced with shining new multi-million dollar building is like being promoted from running a hot dog stand to the kitchens of Alain Ducasse.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:00 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 26, 2006
The Quest
Category: Literary
The diabolical combination that keeps the mysteries of a cancerous cell locked from human view is methodically being deciphered, one number at a time.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 21, 2006
AskaSciBlogger Question for June 22nd
Category: Science Bloggers
What makes a science teacher great is the ability to picture himself or herself sitting at a desk in the back row, assembling an origami tarantula from last week's quiz, disgusted, bored and scared, and then seek out that student like a laser beam hitting a missile and - wham! - make a connection that will change a life forever.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:02 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
News You Can Use! Page 1
Category: Commentary
Gee, it seems that the gurus in charge of writing wire service headlines seem to have fallen under the spell of Banality, The Fairie Queen of Cliches. Here are some recent examples culled from the "Health" section, which your narrator...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 20, 2006
"Doc, Can You Put It in Plain English?"
Category: Lyrical
Lately for some reason I've been handing out analogies like a slot machine with three 7s showing on it. Divine afflatus seems to have temporarily left the creative geniuses who deign to entertain us bumpkins and has come to roost, albeit temporarily, in mine own meager coconut. I recall three scenarios recently where I attempted to translate medical gobbledegook into radiant prose.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 18, 2006
Fentanyl Abuse and Chaos Theory
Category: Commentary
It was Morpheus who in 1805 lent his name to Wilhelm Serturner, a German pharmacist who called the compound he had isolated from opium "morphium," now known as morphine. Unfortunately the Dream God's namesake has been corrupted by a dreadful misuse, it's seductive spondee slithering off the lips, giving a chill to the innocent as it fixes a gleam in the eye of the addict.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:17 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 16, 2006
Comments? What Comments?
Category: Science Bloggers
Flash! What new ScienceBlogs blogger just might have figured out how to show comments from his gentle readers? I do apologize for the delay in figuring this incredibly complex aspect of the enigmatic Movable Type program. Please feel free to...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:58 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
June 15, 2006
AskaSciBlogger June 15th Response
Category: Science Bloggers
In my case I have learned the art of working at twice the speed of the average doctor, not unlike The Flash...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:57 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
June 14, 2006
O, Call Back Yesterday, Bid Time Return!
Category: Literary
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:15 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
June 13, 2006
I'd Walk a Mile for a Camel, or a Fresh Tank of Oxygen
Category: Anti-smoking
In 1994 researchers from Denmark studied the faces of 13,186 men and women between the ages of 30 and 80 and recorded the severity of wrinkling in the right lateral part of the orbit where "crow's feet" appear. They then...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:56 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
June 12, 2006
Ask A Science Blogger
Category: Science Bloggers
"Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why?" I don't have to even think twice about this one - if I wasn't spending...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 11:13 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Look Backward in Anger
Category: Lyrical
Other than those esoteric gentlemen (or is it gentlepersons?) whose job it is to dispatch robust but morally askew, to say the least, prisoners to the shores of the river Styx (by way of the needle and the damage done, if you know what I mean), is there any other career more displeasing than that of the medical oncologist?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:44 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 8, 2006
Asbestos - The Curse That Keeps on Giving
Category: Commentary
Thus once again we are confronted with the revolting phenomenom of "spin," defined my me as "a conclusion that one person fools another into believing is the truth."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:43 PM • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
