June 8, 2010
Meet the sloths from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo.
June 8, 2010
Apparently. In particular, this approach was tried with GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder). A current study in PLoS investigated whether iCBT (Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy) works when the process is guided by a clinician.
The research was done in connection with the "VirtualClinic…
June 8, 2010
... is the topic of discussion on Skeptical Science, a blog that examines AGW denialism. John Cook, the author of that blog, did a recent Skeptically Speaking and the podcast of that discussion is here.
June 8, 2010
... full religious freedom is the compromise between the competing rights of the followers of all the different sects that have fled to our land. Anything short of that is choosing sides, as the people of the time well knew, as the Baptists of the time well knew.
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June 8, 2010
It turns out the answer is "yes" ...
... according to Yahoo Answers.
Also, in answer to the question, "Can a Jedi Lighsabe cut through Superman?" the answer is: It depends.
Nice to see Yahoo Answers deals with the subtleties.
I hope Yahoo Answers never goes away. But in case it does, the best…
June 8, 2010
Considering how right wing SC is, this is rather remarkable. Here's the details:
Can teachers be "allowed" teachers to "help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and weaknesses of existing scientific theories pertinent to the course…
June 8, 2010
... and, since it will launch on my birthday I expect everyone to give me one!!!
It will have FaceTime video chat and a reasonable price tag of $199.
It will have two cameras, one flash, and the frame that holds it together is the antenna. There will also be an upgrade to (or new version of,…
June 8, 2010
I woke up this morning and the internet told me ...
According to this map, I live between Hasty and "I'm Alone" but I have relatives near Grouse, Knocemstiff, Weed Patch and Heist.
Will BP oil increase cancer on oiled beaches? Possibly.
This should be obvious, but there is now some support for…
June 8, 2010
... is an award-winning journalist and author and a recovering newspaper reporter. She writes about public health, medicine and food policy, and finds emerging diseases strangely exciting.
Visit Superbug, the latest Scienceblogs.com blog,and read her books: Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA and…
June 8, 2010
Who voted for this guy?
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June 8, 2010
As expected.
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June 7, 2010
A new intelligence test is out, and the results are in some cases quite expected, and in other cases somewhat surprising.
Briefly, the results indicate that women are smarter than men, people of retired age are smarter than 20 year olds, self declared "Republicans", "Democrats" and "Conservatives…
June 7, 2010
A court in the Indian city of Bhopal has sentenced eight people to two years each in jail over a gas plant leak that killed thousands of people in 1984.
The convictions are the first since the disaster at the Union Carbide plant - the world's worst industrial accident.
The eight Indians, all former…
June 7, 2010
Just so you know .. BP, the oil company (not the dating scheme) makes an interesting appearance in The Corporation. Which we've talked about on this blog, so I just thought I'd remind us.
June 7, 2010
Remember Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh Killings Video? Remember how Wikileaks is a major security threat?
Well, now, there's this: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe:
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S.…
June 7, 2010
WIFI Antenna Hack! - Amazing videos are here
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June 6, 2010
Whenever I sat at Joseph and Mary's dinner table, Mary showed a great deal of interest in my work. In between her frequent forays away from the dining room table to get this or that food item, or to issue instructions to a servant, or whatever, she would sit at the table across from me and ask…
June 6, 2010
Joseph and Mary, and Little Joe and Mary, and Grinker and I, sat around the table where most of the dinner had been laid out. Additional bits and pieces of the dinner would be brought out as needed shortly, but now it was time to pray.
So we held hands and bowed our heads, and Mary led a prayer to…
June 6, 2010
Actual missionaries As you may have noticed, I have written a series of posts about missionaries in eastern Zaire in the 1980s and early 1990s, focusing on my own personal experiences. These seven posts represent only a small number of these experiences, but they are more or less…
June 6, 2010
OK, that was the easy version. Now, here's the gruesome details:
June 6, 2010
As I've mentioned previously, the study site I worked in was beyond the Peace Corps Line. It was beyond the Blender Line. And it was beyond the Beer Line. Out here in this arguably very remote area, we were never short of remoteness. Every year the study site become more and more remote, as…
June 5, 2010
It was a rare day that I was at the Ngodingodi research station at all ... usually I was off in the forest with the Efe Pygmies, up the road excavating an archaeological site. It was also rare that Grinker, my cultural anthropologist colleague, was at the research station. He was spending most of…
June 5, 2010
In the Waterberg, South Africa
June 5, 2010
A couple of "missionary" posts back, I intimated that we got to stay at the missionary stations while visiting various cities or en route between points in return for our work giving out medicine and such at our research camp. In truth, the arrangement was a bit more complex and subtle than this,…
June 5, 2010
Near the end of the earth there are lines one might not cross for fear of falling off.
OK, you won't really fall off, but you will become scared and lost.
This is a Repost in celebration of Missionary Weekend
The area of my research in the Ituri was, by many standards, one of those places near the…
