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What
can you say?
Arch Gen Psychiatry is one of those non-open-access journals that
publishes one free-access article in each issue. Usually the
free article is not particularly interesting; they do not seem to make
use of the open-access articles routinely to make material of general…
Yet
Another Critique of Pay for Performance
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The concept of Pay for Performance is one of those things that seems
sensible and appealing on the surface. But if there was ever
a better example of the maxim, "the devil is in the details," I…
Not
only that, but the genetically modified "organism" is an engineered
HIV. At least, that is what researchers at Emory College in
London are contemplating.
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Sunday,
I drank some unusually good tea. It was green tea, mostly,
with some added ingredients: young hyson and dragonwell teas, orange
peel, peppermint leaf, jasmine flowers, lemon verbena, marigold
flowers, blue malva flowers, and pineapple flavor.
It was Revolution Tropical…
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/photogalleries/wip-week20/index.html">National
Geographic POD
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Scotland, United Kingdom, March 13, 2007—For gentoo
penguins, it's all about who's got the best rocks. Like a human…
Various
ScienceBloggers have been thumping all over Egnor's case, which is a
well-deserved thumping.
href="http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/2007/03/18/sunday_paleopathology_blogging/?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=sublink">The
Egnor Challenge: Tooth Decay…
I know people come here to read about psychiatry, mental health,
neuroscience, and political/social issues related to those topics.
No, scratch that, I have not idea why people come here.
But this post is straight politics. Well, it's
politics and a little sociological musing and…
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A
while back, I posted a picture of this area's most expensive Pizza,
from Pizza
House in Ann Arbor. That one was only about $25.
Now I see there is one that is a wee bit more than that:
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1429852020070315">Meet
the $1,…
Everyone's
heard of blue lasers by now. Some people have them in their
homes. The reason they are important, is that blue light has
a shorter wavelength than the red lasers that were used in the first CD
and DVD devices. The shorter wavelength means that the laser
can see smaller…
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030901894.html">Don't
flush your old prescriptions, or other medications.
They end up in the water, and that is bad. Just
throw them away. If you are concerned about someone digging
through your trash…
The
playoffs are not even underway in the 2007 Science Spring Showdown, yet
already the teams are maneuvering for any advantage they can get.
The match-ups are so even, that everyone knows it is the
intangibles that will make a difference.
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I
really liked Jonah's post at The Frontal Cortex,
about
href="http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2007/03/dreaming_smelling_and_memory.php">Dreaming,
Smelling and Memory. But I have to take issue with
his treatment of the use of dream interpretation in Freudian
psychotherapy.
I know…
The draft for
the
href="http://www.ipcc.ch/">IPCC report for this
year paints a distinctly disturbing picture of the near future.
As reported in
href="http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2007-03-11-climate-report_N.htm?POE=NEWISVA">USA
Today (among many others…
One
of the embarrassing things about Michigan Politics is that many of the
national politicians, while generally fairly progressive, do not get on
board with mandates for cars that pollute less.
The auto makers argue that it would take too long to develop the
technology to meet higher fuel…
There really isn't much to say about this, if you adhere to the notion
that if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at
all...
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This
is from a meme; Tikistitch has put up a list of the "
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Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years".
I got this from
href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/08/essential_science_fiction.php">Coturnix,
who got…
What
would happen if Tux went to a famous portrait artist to get a
makeover?
href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/modigliani/">Modigliani
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botticelli">Botticelli
This was done using the method
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href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030902082.html">Privatized
Walter Reed Workforce Gets Scrutiny
Army
Facility Lost Dozens Of Maintenance Workers…
...That
is probably bad advice. Never take legal advice from someone
who is not your lawyer. The only thing worse than taking
legal advice from someone who is not your lawyer, is to take legal
advice from somebody else's lawyer.
With that disclaimer out of the way, I am going to tell…
This
is supposedly the earliest known octopus, being from the middle
Jurrasic, found in France. Think old.
Happy
birthday, PZ Myers!
The
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders">DSM
refers to anhedonia as one of the two core symptoms
of depression; the other core symptom is depressed mood itself.
What is anhedonia, and why is it so important?
First, let's consider…
I've heard of case modding, but this is just going too
far:
What is this? It is a full-featured web server in a compact
case. How is this possible?
...(below the fold)
Basically, it is a one-chip solution. Not entirely, the
server runs on one chip and there are a couple of…
At least that is what the headline says. Of course
the article is
not really about sex; the sex part is only a small part of the findings
of the study. But headline writers know how to get attention.
What is really striking to me about this report is not that
it
shows that sleep…
A
slice of Pizza House's large House Special deep dish pizza, which, at
almost $25, is the most expensive pie listed on the menu of any
pizzeria near Central Campus. (PETER SCHOTTENFELS/
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A
while back, I wrote (twice) about the nettlesome issue of
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disruptors. A more detailed post was offered at
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HT to :: the
Core 4 :: for the link to the newest
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of Saturn.
The complete image file is over 35MB. You would
need a 4088x2908 monitor to see the whole thing at full
resolution.
This is one where you have to…
Point one: when sanctions were imposed upon Iraq after the first Gulf
War, Iraqi children began starving. But we did not blame
ourselves. After all, it was Mr. Saddam Hussein who chose to
spend money on more palaces, rather than on feeding the children.
It was not our fault, that…
In case you did not know, there is going to be a lunar eclipse tomorrow
night. By itself, that is not terribly unusual.
What is unusual about this event, though, is that at some
times and places, it will be possible to see both
the setting sun and the partly-eclipsed moon at the
same…