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May 8, 2008
One thing about hospitals, is that they
href="http://www.energybulletin.net/43514.html">use an awful
lot of
electricity. We already know about some of the
challenges
that will occur in health care in the post-peak-oil era; I wrote about
that in
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/…
May 5, 2008
The urge to fisk is an omnipresent danger for all bloggers.
Usually I am strong. Usually I resist.
But this essay on World Net Daily got my fisking neurons all
in a twitter. It's by David Kupelian, and it's a World Net
Daily Exclusive! (Because no one else would print it.)
href="http://www.…
May 4, 2008
Dinah, writing at Shrink Rap, got
href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/05/02/meanness-and-psychiatry-dont-mix/?mod=WSJBlog">mentioned
in the Wall Steet Journal, of all places. Her post "
href="http://psychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-therapist-is-creep.html">My
Therapist is a…
May 1, 2008
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it was noticed that
there were cuts in the budget to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The rationale was that we needed to shift more funds to the
global and perpetual war on terror.
At the time, I said that "the terrorists" won't have to…
April 28, 2008
The Ubuntu craze is sweeping SciencBlogs:
href="http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2008/04/tech_note_ubuntu_linux_804_har.php">Aardvarchaeology,
href="http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2006/11/ubuntu_for_your_parents_uncles.php">Scientific
Indian,
href="http://scienceblogs.com/…
April 23, 2008
Everyone's
anatomy has little quirks. One of mine, is the length of the
roots
of my wisdom teeth. They go down halfway to Sulawesi.
When
I was in college, I had to have two of them extracted. The
oral
surgeon told me they were "difficult extractions."
Magnanimous as
he was, he gave me a…
April 21, 2008
title="The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness"
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align="left" height="226" hspace="2" width="132" class="inset">
A
while back, a guy named Lyle Rossiter wrote a book, The
Liberal Mind: The Psychological…
April 16, 2008
“Doctors think, ‘Well, of course
she’s depressed — she’s dying of breast
cancer,’” he said.
I do see that kind of response sometimes, not just with regard to
terminally ill patients. The physician does not think the
depression should be treated, because it is felt to be an expected
response to…
April 15, 2008
Here at ScienceBlogs, we've regularly posted about the thorny issue of
antibiotic overuse, and the subsequent antibiotic resistance.
This is a good example of evolution in action; it's also a
good reason why we need to study and understand evolution.
But antibiotic resistance is not the only…
April 13, 2008
Forget to water your tomato plants? Try using ollas
(pronounced oy-ya).
href="http://urbanhomestead.org/journal/2008/03/24/using-ollas/"
rel="tag">Olla is Spanish for pot,
as in clay pot.
What you do is to get
unglazed clay pots, bury them near the plants, and put water in them.
The…
April 7, 2008
I wasn't sure whether to put the quotes around "Ruthlessness Gene," or
"Discovered." I suppose I could have just left them out
entirely, but I have this urge to spice things up a bit with
punctuation marks. Don't blame me...it's genetic.
Now, there is yet another correlation between a snippet of…
April 6, 2008
A new world record has been set:
The previous record for hanging spoons on a human face was 15.
Joe Allison "smashed" the record
with 16. He's only 16 years old. He thinks that
when his forehead is a little bigger, he'll be able to do 17.
(
href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/…
April 4, 2008
href="http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080403/more-than-90000-us-infants-are-victims-of-abuse-or-neglect.htm">More
than 90,000 u.s. infants are victims of abuse or neglect.
My question: what is
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/chertoff-bio.html">Michael
Chertoff…
April 4, 2008
Medscape has one of their brief 0.25 CME articles on the subject of
methylphenidate (Ritalin, et. al.) and the effect
it has on sleep. (You have to register to read it, but
registration is free.)
This is interesting because it illustrates nicely how
psychopharmacology can be confusing. In this…
April 2, 2008
From Think Progress:
href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/01/cheney-swore-off-moderate-campaign-promises-a-month-after-2000-election/"
rel="bookmark"
title="Permanent link to 'Cheney swore off ‘moderate’ campaign promises a month after 2000 election.'">Cheney
swore off ‘moderate’ campaign…
April 1, 2008
This is something that has been brewing for a while. I
noticed a trend among medical students, over the years, with increasing
numbers of them expressing support for universal health care in the USA.
Now it is official. A study published in the Annals of
Internal Medicine today (1 April 2008)…
March 26, 2008
On 26 March 1874, the great poet
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost" rel="tag">Robert
Frost was born.
Perhaps it is not so notable, but 26 March 2008 is the first
href="http://documentfreedom.org/News/20080220" rel="tag">Document
Freedom Day.
Early in the development of…
March 24, 2008
GrrlScientist wrote
href="http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/02/diagnosing_bipolar_disorder_wi.php">a
post last month about a potential genetic test for bipolar
disorder. Read that first to get some background.
Now, it turns out that a company is selling a testing kit that you can…
March 24, 2008
This item just appeared on the news tubes, and I thought I'd pass it
along.
href="http://news.monstersandcritics.com/health/news/article_1396601.php/Distinguishing_signs_of_early_dementia_from_depression_is_tricky">Distinguishing
signs of early dementia from depression is tricky
Mar 24,…
March 20, 2008
A reader pointed me to this article, by Miriam Axel-Lute, about the
Nonsensical Gyrations that Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield (of New
Jersey) is going through to try to avoid paying for health care:
href="http://www.metroland.net/back_issues/vol31_no10/looking_up.html">What’s
Healthy?
If…
March 19, 2008
This month
href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-18-ccc75th_N.htm">marks
the 75th anniversary of the
href="http://www.cccalumni.org/history1.html">Civilian
Conservation Corps. This item caught my attention,
because I had an uncle who was part of the CCC. He did
forestry work…
March 17, 2008
When generic drugs started to become popular, many people were
skeptical. Many people got switched from brand name to
generic products, and complained that the generic did not work as well.
These complaints often were treated with skepticism. After
all, generic drugs contain the same active…
March 17, 2008
There is a new website,
rel="tag">Encyclopedia of Life.
It is an online resource that aims "to document all species
of life on Earth." One featured species is Pissodes
strobi (Peck), the White pine weevil.
src="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/image%0As/beetle.jpeg"
class="inset"…
March 16, 2008
This is a nice bit of Scandinavian design.
But take another look. Notice the ST segment?
HT:
href="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/heartbeat-bookshelf/">Neatorama.
March 12, 2008
XP13512 is an experimental new drug currently
href="http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=XP13512">in
phase III trials for the treatment of
href="http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec16/ch215/ch215f.html"
rel="tag">restless legs syndrome. I was
reminded about this after seeing a post at…
March 11, 2008
It amused me today to see two blog posts, both about users switching
from Gentoo
to *buntu.
rel="bookmark"
title="Permanent Link: Why I am making the switch from Gentoo to Kubuntu">Why
I Am Making The Switch From Gentoo To Kubuntu
href="http://fxjr.blogspot.com/2008/03/bye-gentoo-welcome…
March 7, 2008
This is interesting. Banks think they have found a way to
make money no matter what happens.
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601010&sid=axksyBiC6q78&refer=news">As
Houston Auctions Fail, JPMorgan Exploits Taxpayers
By Darrell Preston
March 6 (Bloomberg) -- The…
March 7, 2008
The LA Times has a story about the author's own
struggle with
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000923.htm">panic
disorder and agoraphobia.
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-hew-panic3mar03,0,2971333.story">
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/…
March 6, 2008
In late winter, 1979, I knew an architecture student at the University
of Michigan. She wanted some pictures of buildings, in
downtown Chicago, for a presentation she had to do. She was
from Chicago, but did not have a car and did not have a camera.
I, on the other hand, had a Mazda Rx-3 and a…