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December 3, 2007
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December 2, 2007
A calendar celebrating the aesthetic qualities of marine
invertebrates is available now at
href="http://www.cafepress.com/dorid.196100014">Dorid Designs,
along with a full line of items relating to marine biology, evolution,
paleontology, and rationalism. She also has tons of
href="http…
December 2, 2007
There is a whole series of photos illustrating this unusual
relationship. It originally was posted in the Boston
Herald, but that page is no longer with us. The
text and photos still can be found at
href="http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2007/03/unusual-friendship.html">Fresh
Pics. Some…
December 1, 2007
In the book, The Blind Watchmaker,
Richard Dawkins makes a statement that led one reader to feel the need
to check up on him:
I've been reading through Richard Dawkins'
books and am currently half way through The Blind Watchmaker (2006
paperback edition) and on page 119 he writes:
In my…
December 1, 2007
Uprising Radio reports on an item of social justice:
href="http://uprisingradio.org/home/?p=2134">San Diego
County Searches Welfare Recipients’ Homes
Published on 28 Nov 2007 at 12:06 pm
GUEST: Eric Isaacson, Partner in the law firm,
Coughlin-Stoia, and cooperating attorney with the…
December 1, 2007
You would think it would take a sociopath to put
rel="tag" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos">asbestos
in a children's toy. You'd be right. Yet, it has
happened. Stranger yet, Canada has adopted legislation that
explicitly permits this.
Asbestos became infamous when it was linked…
November 29, 2007
href="http://www.researchblogging.org/">A great
deal of evidence has accumulated that there is a problem with
regulation of cortisol levels in persons with posttraumatic stress
disorder. Several years ago, it
href="http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/157/8/1252">was…
November 29, 2007
For years, universities have struggled to find ways to move
esoteric technologies from the lab to the commercial sector.
Now, scientists at UC Merced have begun to grapple with
another problem: how to move technology from the toy shop into the lab.
Chemical & Engineering News has a
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November 27, 2007
1. Good music can neither be created, nor destroyed.
All the good music already exists. It does not matter how
many hours you spend at the keyboard trying to come up with something
new. All of your efforts are in vain.
2. The degree of disorganization in music increases to a maximum.
From now…
November 26, 2007
I've rarely linked to Kos before; this is probably the
second time (I'm a liberal, just not that kind of
liberal). However, the recent post on the reality of the Iraq
war demands some commentary. Plus, there is no point in being
one out of >100 commenters. Note: the
href="http://www.cbsnews…
November 26, 2007
Using my new Firefox search box to search ScienceBlogs, I
learned that
href="http://www.nursece.com/onlinecourses/9012.html" rel="tag">Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
href="http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/02/children_of_alcoholics_have_re.php">retards
neural growth,
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November 25, 2007
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November 25, 2007
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agomelatine" rel="tag">Agomelatine
is a new chemical entity that is nearing approval for treatment of
depression. It was developed by
href="http://www.servier.co.uk/aboutus/history.asp" rel="tag">Servier
Laboratories; they have entered into an agreement…
November 24, 2007
The treehuggers at
href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/10/are_you_kidding.php">TreeHugger
saw right through this one. Safeway is now selling "organic
water."
I find the last point especially amusing: "No Genetic Modification."
Greenwashing
to the extreme.
HT:
href="http://j-…
November 24, 2007
On 24 November, 1859, Charles Darwin's
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Species">book,
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the
Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, was
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November 23, 2007
Apparently, it is not only possible to run a household with
a battery,
but to run 25,000 with a battery: a battery that uses uranium hydride.
The device is being developed from technology from
Los Alamos National
Laboratory, by a
company called
rel="tag">Hyperion Power Generation. In
an…
November 23, 2007
Turkey is considering adding the letters "Q," "W," and "X"
to their alphabet. The idea is that it would appease the
Kurds.
href="http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=127794">
class="detaybaslik-font">Gov’t reform envisages
including X, Q, W in Turkish…
November 23, 2007
Why use Google, which will give you ten million irrelevant
hits, when all you really want to do, is to find the juicy stuff on
ScienceBlogs?
Well, you can navigate to the ScienceBlogs home page, and search there,
or go to any of the blogs and use the search boxes there. Or,
to simplify things a…
November 21, 2007
MTV is taking some heat for its refusal to broadcast an
advertisment for Buy
Nothing Day.
MTV, the channel that markets itself to
hip youth, has decreed that our Buy Nothing Day public service spot
"goes further than we are willing to accept on our channels". Gangsta
rap and sexualized, semi-…
November 21, 2007
We found a recipe for pecan pie that does
not use corn syrup. I would not try to argue that this
confection is salubrious, mind you, but at least there is no corn syrup.
Most pecan pie is so sweet that it is annoying.
That is
unfortunate. We are hopeful that this will not have that
defect…
November 20, 2007
Here is a part of a screenshot, showing the most-viewed
pages:
Notice that the page on homosexuality has 78% as many visits
as the main page. The site?
rel="tag" href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Statistics">Conservapedia:
"The Trustworthy Encyclopedia." It is a wiki, like…
November 20, 2007
Any time something related to a
medical use for cannabis is found, it
makes headlines. Mostly, the interest is generated by the
relationship to an illegal drug. Sometimes, though, the media
do a decent job of reporting the real issue.
href="http://www.researchblogging.org/">Researchers
at…
November 20, 2007
America missed her chance to elect a sane pro-environmental
candidate
in 2000. Or rather, the Supreme Court missed its chance.
Whatever. The critical point is that
environmentalism cannot be understood as an isolated issue.
Pro-environmental thinking must pervade everything we do from
now on…
November 19, 2007
It is common for tension to occur in the doctor-patient
relationship occurs when the patient reports symptoms that are
distressing to the patient, but which do not seem serious to the doctor.
Each instance of this is different, so it is hard to make
generalizations. However, in the case of sleep…
November 19, 2007
According to the
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2213075,00.html">Guardian:
...because it minimally adheres to certain
superficial conventions, it can masquerade as a "news" outfit and enjoy
all the rights that accrue to that...
November 18, 2007
Sun Microsystems
is
href="http://www.techworld.com/green-it/news/index.cfm?newsID=10667">planning
to put a data center in an old coal mine. The idea is to save
on energy costs. In fact, they expect nine million dollars
per year on electricity. This is because much of the
electrical…
November 18, 2007
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November 17, 2007
The cost of health insurance has been increasing, typically
at
double-digit annual rates.
With the expansion of information technology, particularly electronic
claims processing, one would expect that the insurance companies would
be operating much more efficiently now that they were ten years…
November 17, 2007
rel="tag">Simon N. Young, PhD, the Editor-in-chief
of the Journal of
Psychiatry and Neuroscience, has written an editorial: How
To
Increase Serotonin In The Human Brain Without Drugs.
In is
published in this month's edition of the Journal of
Psychiatry and Neuroscience.
The Journal is an…