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November 7, 2007
I found this at John Fleck's
href="http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=2310">Inkstain,
but others
are writing about it, too. Some think it is a hoax
perpetrated to promote anthropogenic global warming
denialism; others think it is an attempt to discredit
the denialists.
I was all excited at…
November 7, 2007
A recent study indicates that the lifetime cost of medical
care for
Iraq and Afghanistan veterans will be greater than the cost of the war
to date. We really have no choice, but it is going to cost
us. A lot. Of course, the ones really paying are
the troops themselves. From Medscape (free…
November 7, 2007
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November 6, 2007
This cartoon is by
href="http://www.claybennett.com/about.html">Clay Bennett,
the editorial cartoonist for the Christian
Science Monitor.
I guess that is one way to get re-elected. Tell
people what they want to hear.
November 6, 2007
Medical/technical illustrators too often are forgotten.
They add value to publications, and need to be compensated.
So what will be the effect, as open-access publishing becomes
more common?
It is hard to know for sure, as the whole field is evolving so rapidly.
But Peter Suber, writing at…
November 6, 2007
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alt="Blogging on Peer-Reviewed Research"
src="http://www.researchblogging.org/public/citation_icons/rb2_large_gray.png"
height="50" width="80">The
researchers did fMRI
of brains of persons with
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November 6, 2007
I am glad to see this, because I have never played the game,
but have been curious. So I gather that the game is mildly
amusing, but gets old.
via
href="http://parody.videosift.com/video/What-Second-Life-is-REALLY-Like"
title="What Second Life is REALLY Like">videosift.com
November 5, 2007
This is a photo from the space telescope Hubble, as shown on
National
Geographic's site. The conglomeration of the two galaxies is
known as Arp 87.
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/wip-week53/photo3.html">October
30, 2007—A new Hubble image offers the…
November 4, 2007
There is very little published about this, so I have no idea why it
happened. Dick Cheney's attorney,
href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-desk/2007/11/1/cheney-lawyer-is-leaving.html">Shannen
Coffin, has resigned. He "is expected to take a
breather from the rapid pace of government…
November 4, 2007
Yes, it has come to this. Increasingly, college
graduates are trading their mortarboards for hard hats. Why?
Because that is where the jobs are. Plus, there is a looming
wave of retirements, as most current coal miners are in their 50's.
The story is at
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/…
November 4, 2007
Again, my weakness for cute animals takes hold. I
saw a piece
on Yahoo News about a
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November 3, 2007
...11 miles from Denver, in a wildlife refuge, forcing the
cancellation of
a number of public events.
This refers to a placed called the
href="http://www.fws.gov/rockymountainarsenal/">Rocky
Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, near Commerce
City, Colorado. Their website now states…
November 3, 2007
Folded from a single, square piece of paper. It even has the
cerebellum!
Source: Origami
Page, by Brian Chan
HT:
href="http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/2007/11/predicting-the-.html">Grow
A Brain
November 3, 2007
A site called LibriVox
now has a catalog of over 1,000 free audiobooks. They are all
in the public domain; all have been read and recorded by volunteers.
It's a nice supplement to the 20,000+ free books in the
href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page">Project
Gutenberg Online Book…
November 2, 2007
rel="tag">Anhedonia
is one of the most important symptoms of depression. I wrote
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/03/basic_concepts_anhedonia.php">a
post about it a while back, so I won't go into the definition
in this post, other than to summarize by saying that it is…
November 2, 2007
11/11 is to be the new 9/11, according to the jihad-watchers at
href="http://www.debka.com/" rel="tag">DEBKAfile.
href="http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4723">DEBKAfile
Exclusive: Al Qaeda declares Cyber Jihad on the West
October 30, 2007, 9:23 AM (GMT+02:00)
In a special…
November 1, 2007
(AP)
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/01/politics/main3441060.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_3441060">President
Bush compared Congress' Democratic leaders Thursday with
people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last
century, saying "the world paid a terrible price"…
October 31, 2007
This won't happen, but I think it should.
Television media should not be allowed to participate, other
than to do the broadcast. The media performance in the
10/30/07 Democratic debate shows that MSM do not know how to conduct a
useful debate.
Find a good media company, say Seed Media, and…
October 31, 2007
This is a
href="http://www.digitimes.com/displays/a20070404PD212.html">pico-projector
from Texas Instruments. The idea is to have a device that can
project an image onto a screen, using a very small device such as a
PDA. Right now the usable image size is about 15 to 20
inches. They hope to…
October 31, 2007
It was kind of depressing to see the post on Effect Measure (
href="http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2007/10/chemical_plants_internal_dange.php#more">Chemical
plants: internal dangers, external costs) about the
half-measures being taken to safeguard chemical plants and facilities.
The…
October 30, 2007
href="http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2007/crazy.htm">Nov.
5 event at U-M will feature top experts discussing alternatives to
“criminalization” of America’s mentally
ill
ANN ARBOR, MI – Across America, prisons serve as an
unofficial holding system for the mentally ill. Families…
October 30, 2007
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October 30, 2007
Medscape
has an article about a study that shows a relationship between the
amount of eduction a person has, and how rapidly memory loss occurs
when they get senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT).
The more education a person has, the faster the memory loss
occurs. (
href="http://www.…
October 29, 2007
A guy was sitting at a stoplight, minding his own business,
when a wrecking ball crashed into the trunk. The man was not
seriously injured.
The wrecking ball was being used in demolition, but apparently had a
defective cable.
HT: DNA
Lounge.
href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07191/…
October 29, 2007
I don't think I am being unduly harsh in saying that this
was an
incredibly stupid thing to do:
U.S. Forest Service investigators were on
campus last
week to question Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members about an Oct.
11 incident at the Lower Gallinas Campground in which a tree was cut
down and…
October 29, 2007
When he said:
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain
search for absolute security.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
(source)
October 27, 2007
Today I watched the C-Span broadcast (
href="rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/energy/energy102307_warming.rm">link
to Real Player file,
80 minutes) of Dr. Gerberding's testimony to the Senate Committee on
Environment and Public Works. The topic: The potential
effects of
climate change on public…
October 27, 2007
PZ has already
href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/10/dont_worry_kids_curry_is_just.php">written
about this, primarily to dismiss it as nonsense. He is
correct, but there is one point (or two) that I want to add.
Oliver
Curry is described in WIkipedia as an evolutionary
theorist…
October 27, 2007
Not much to add to this. I do want to make sure
that more people see it.
Why did you include a chapter on
your bout with postpartum depression and were you concerned that the
CIA would look unkindly on the fact that you sought help for your
condition?
I included the chapter on postpartum…
October 26, 2007
The Clean Air Act was passed in 1970, and amended in 1977
and 1990.
It has been mildly controversial, but most people supported
it then and support it now.
A retrospective
economic analysis done in the early 1990's indicated that the
cost of implementation from 1970 to 1990 had been about $523…