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September 17, 2007
Look at these news briefs:
href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=cracking_down_on_corporate_abuses_abroad">In
March, Cincinnati-based Chiquita Brands International, pled
guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to
making regular protection payments to…
September 16, 2007
CNN has an interesting article on the safeguarding of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium">highly
enriched uranium. A reporter was allowed to
accompany a mission in Viet Nam to remove some cold war era highly
enriched uranium from a US-built/USSR-fueled nuclear reactor.
It is…
September 16, 2007
I support universal coverage in a single-payer system.
I won't belabor the point. Today I just want to
point out another insurance industry lie, printed in the New York Times
today.
It's in an article about Mrs. Clinton's health care finance reform
proposal. (Which I do not support.)
Mrs.…
September 15, 2007
If you are willing to settle for a two-dimensional desktop
experience,
and you love The Matrix, this might be fun.
The image is an animated GIF, so it is big. (Sorry
to the
dial-up users.) The real thing works much better than the
animated GIF shows.
The howto is
href="http://geekhacks.…
September 14, 2007
This is a regular photo of a tiger at the
href="http://www.cabq.gov/biopark/">Albuquerque Biological
Park.
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tejedoro_de_luz/1382289147/">
The
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tejedoro_de_luz/1382289147/">photo
is on Flickr, taken by Glen.
The…
September 14, 2007
The Guardian Unlimited has a provocative
article on the role of
endocrine disruptors in increasing the ratio of girl babies to boy
babies in the Arctic.
I've written about the topic before (
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/02/endocrine_disruptors.php">1
2)
as have
href="…
September 11, 2007
I don't think this has ever happened before. I was
reading an
article about the organizational chart at the
href="http://www.fda.gov/" rel="tag">FDA
and I laughed out
loud.
Unfortunately it was not a good "monkey-on-a-goat" LOL moment; rather,
it was a "WTF-sounds-like-Bush" kind of LOL…
September 9, 2007
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September 8, 2007
What is the world coming to?
title="Am J Psychiatry">AJP
has an article about "intensive" therapy for bipolar disorder.
Their definition of intensive? Thirty sessions over
a
period of nine months.
Back in the day, when you could struggle to stay awake during a seminar
when people read…
September 7, 2007
Mitt Romney's national finance committee (ex-) co-chairman,
title="Forbes article"
href="http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/09/ap4006058.html"
rel="tag">Alan Fabian,
is in trouble. He's been indicted for mail fraud, money
laundering, bankruptcy fraud, perjury and obstruction of justice…
September 7, 2007
This morning the US government revealed that employment is
down by 4,000 jobs. The market took a dive. Why was
the impact so bad?
It is one of two reasons. Either the numbers are so bad, that
the government can't lie about them, or the numbers
are so bad, that the government isn't even going to…
September 5, 2007
This is Theo at his desk, during the first day of Kindergarden, at Eberwhite.
September 4, 2007
In the 1950's, a new class of antipsychotic drugs was
discovered: the
antipsychotics.
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine" rel="tag">Chlorpromazine
(Thorazine®) was the first.
By the 1970's, several related compounds had been discovered.
In
1976, it was learned that there is a…
September 4, 2007
IBM is launching
href="http://linuxgazette.net/142/lg_bytes.html">Project
Big Green. Part of the initiative is to consolidate
operations in the world's largest data centers. They will
replace nearly 4,000 servers with 30 refrigerator-sized
System
Z mainframes, running Linux, using…
September 3, 2007
This picture shows
href="http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/float1.html" rel="tag">Hurricane
Felix 2007 after attaining category 5 status. You
can see a video of it, growing as it approaches Central America, at the
NOAA site,
href="http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/sloop-wv.html">here…
September 3, 2007
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September 3, 2007
This is good.
href="http://www.getfirefox.net/">Firefox now has
an extension that makes it simple to store all your bibliographic
information from online research.
It is at release candidate 3 stage now, well-developed and
fully functional. It is called
href="http://www.zotero.org/"…
September 3, 2007
Usually the LA Times does not print things this awful.
Usually these things don't bother me so much. The
problem is not just that the author is wrong, or that he develops his
argument poorly -- although both are true. What bothers me is
the pointlessly malicious tone of the piece.
href="http…
September 1, 2007
There may be another crisis brewing in health care finance.
In the early 2000's, health insurance premiums were
increasing by ~10% per year. The increase in premiums was
greater than the increase in health care costs.
Why would insurance premiums go up faster than health care costs?
It is…
August 29, 2007
Sexual assault is a common and serious problem. It is
hypothesized that misconceptions (rape myths) may play a role in this.
About 50% of sexual assaults involving adolescent or young adult female
victims occur in the context of alcohol consumption. The
authors of a recent study from the…
August 29, 2007
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Shows what can happen when you withhold cheezburgers…
August 28, 2007
Google News no longer indexes ScienceBlogs, but they continue to link
to drivel like this, from the Wall Street Journal:
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118800560693308626.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Lone
Star Spending Spree
By MARY KATHERINE STOUT
August 25, 2007; Page A6
Austin,…
August 28, 2007
My non-expert identification of this:
href="http://www.mister-toad.com/photos/lizard/lizardphotos.html">desert
spiny lizard,
href="http://www.mister-toad.com/photos/lizard/Sceloporus_magister_15June05.jpg"
rel="tag">Sceloporus magister.
August 27, 2007
William Rivers Pitt argues that what the President, Cheney, and Gonzalez have done is not illegal. Apparently, it is not illegal for the President to declare himself and his administration to be above the law. The idea is so outrageous that it never occurred to anyone to make it illegal.
August 27, 2007
What would happen if you set up a system to automatically
print out all
the spam in the Universe? Never mind the question of why you
would want to.
(link)
August 25, 2007
class="inset" alt="Crusade Radio logo"
title="Crusade Radio logo"
src="http://www.crusaderadio.com/christianradiohdr.jpg"
align="left" border="0" height="131" width="304">This
topic has been covered by
href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/08/more_christian_curses.php">Ed…
August 25, 2007
This
controversy has been evolving for the past three years.
Perhaps at this point it is no longer newsworthy.
But often, after a topic fades from the radar of the MSM,
there are new findings.
The journal, Psychological Medicine, has published
a study about the risk of suicidal thinking and…
August 25, 2007
A neat little podcast, in which ordinary people express
incredulity at the notion of a medical doctor buying into young-earth
creationism, is at
href="http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2007/08/22/podcast-geology-as-comedy/">Quirky
Nomads.