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November 18, 2006
Really. A doctor said that. An obstetrician, in a
presentation entitled
href="http://www.abstinence.net/pdf/contentmgmt/EricKeroackPresentation2003.pdf">The
Neuroendocrine and Biochemical Basics of Human Sexuality: The Results
of Non-Marital Sexual Activity. [Note: the link
goes to a 7MB PDF…
November 18, 2006
Rehabilitation of disused industrial sites has been a costly and
contentious issue in urban planning. Sites that are mildly or
moderately contaminated are called
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownfield" rel="tag">brownfields.
Research is underway to see if some brownfields can be used…
November 17, 2006
Another product that makes me go "hmmm." Once or twice in my
life I've paid extra for high-performance random-access memory, but
I've never paid extra for the
href="http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/10/17/log_ocz_camouflage_ddr2_memory/">paint
job.
This is the PC2-6400 Special Ops Urban…
November 17, 2006
Casual users might not notice much difference between Firefox 2.0 and
IE 7.0. But with continued use, the advantages of Firefox
become increasingly evident. This is especially true for
people who take the initiative to install a lot of extensions.
What is less obvious, is that Firefox still has…
November 16, 2006
Yet Another Book Meme. I found this one at Yet Another Ann
Arbor Blog, named Bloug.
href="http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/000506.html">Nov
16, 2006: Fie on Louisa May Alcott, Roald Dahl, Cormac McCarthy, and
all their ilk...
Now that's a weird list! These are authors of books…
November 16, 2006
The Blogosphere has had a bit of a twitter over the issue of the
impeachment of President Bush. The most assertive progressive
href="http://alterx.blogspot.com/2006/11/nancy-its-your-duty-to-impeach-bush.html">
are upset that the issue is "
href="http://www.democrats.com/Why-Conyers-Changed-…
November 15, 2006
OK, so it is not totally a myth; there are plenty of compassionate
conservatives out there. But the phrase can be used to
whitewash policies that are just plain mean.
Florida is illegally imprisoning mentally ill persons, repeatedly,
systematically, and is doing nothing to try to solve the problem…
November 15, 2006
I've quietly worried about this for a few years, but now I have
company. Increased temperatures, combined with increased
climate variability, could have a significant effect on human health
worldwide.
href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLIMATE_HEALTH">Diseases
Appear on Rise With…
November 15, 2006
The Union of Concerned Scientists is concerned again. This
time,
they are concerned the possibility that a fourth-generation
cephalosporin,
href="http://www.intervet.co.uk/Products_Public/Cephaguard_Injection/090_Product_Datasheet.asp">cefquinome,
could be approved for use in animal feed.…
November 15, 2006
First there was Alternative Medicine, then there was Complimentary and
Alternative Medicine, and now there is Integrative, Complimentary and
Alternative Medicine.
I guess the natural cynic in me becomes suspicious when I see acronyms
undergoing hypertrophy.
So is this growing collection of…
November 14, 2006
They are monitoring the content of children's books, that's what.
From the Senate web site of the
href="http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=265811">Environment
and Public Works committee:
New UN Children’s Book Promotes
Global Warming Fears to Kids
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2006…
November 14, 2006
News reports suggest that the new Democratic majority is planning to
try to change the course of US environmental policy:
href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEMOCRATS_ENVIRONMENT">Democrats
to Stress Environmental IssuesBy JOHN HEILPRINNov
14, 2:42 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The…
November 13, 2006
I noticed this a few days ago and meant to comment on it.
Then, I noticed
href="http://scienceblogs.com/drcharles/2006/11/attention_paging_dr_google_1.php#more">Dr.
Charles beat me to it. He even gave some examples
in actual use. If you've already read his, skip the excerpt
and go directly…
November 11, 2006
I am not having such a good day, but it is a good day for Michigan.
The Wolverines won in Bloomington, paving the way for for a
big showdown with Ohio State.
More importantly, the jack-o-lantern is off the deer.
This deer has been making headlines for days. Everyone has
been worried about it. …
November 11, 2006
Often political discourse breaks sown, when both sides resort to
platitudes. This is true especially when the debate is
carried out on the basis of deeply-held generalizations. This
is especially true when empirical evidence is not
taken into account.
It often is argued that environmentalism is…
November 10, 2006
A good site to sample world media outlets, and to see what they have to
say about the USA, is
href="http://www.watchingamerica.com/index.shtml">Watching
America.
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src="http://blogster.com/host/images/65751436601.jpg" alt=""
align…
November 9, 2006
href="http://www.allhatnocattle.net/1-13-04_revenge_bush_oneill.htm">
Often I see people who have been admitted to a psychiatric hospital
after hitting
bottom. They have nothing. At first, it seems
difficult to know what to do. The guiding idea, though, is
always the same: you have to…
November 7, 2006
For some reason, I really like this picture. The version here
is reduced in size and quality. NASA Earth Observatory has an
explanation of the photo, along with a better version, and a link to
the original, which is a tad over 6 MB in size.
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/…
November 6, 2006
The annual
href="http://www.transparency.org/news_room/in_focus/cpi_2006/cpi_table">Corruption
Perceptions Index is out, and the USA placed 20th.
Not too bad, except last year, we were 17th. At
least we did not fall as far as
href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/11/7/…
November 6, 2006
href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061104/cleisure/cleisure1.html">Elevating
trivia over substance
published: Saturday | November 4, 2006
There is a deepening triviality in the conduct of American politics,
which should be a matter of great concern to the citizens of the United…
November 6, 2006
The people who support this policy are not only heartless, they are
idiots.
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/washington/03medicaid.html?ei=5090&en=12f703522d8d3a89&ex=1320210000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1162703532-so0p8YsoJEPd7rc82J6fjg">…
November 5, 2006
Finally, a product to bring much-deserved recognition to an
out-of-the-way place: Intel has announced their "enthusiast"
motherboard for high-performance computing: the
href="http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d975xbx/index.htm">D975XBX,
nicknamed the
"Bad Axe."
Just get a load a'the…
November 5, 2006
I've long been a fan of
href="http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/solidstate/SSLWhat.htm">LED
lighting, thinking that it holds a
href="http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16135&z=318&p=1&ch=nanotech">lot
of promise for reducing electricity demands. Early
on in…
November 5, 2006
It turns out the military
href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_WAR_GAMES?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">ran
war games in 1999, trying to anticipate what might happen if
we invaded Iraq. First of all, they anticipated that 400,000
troops would be needed. …
November 4, 2006
Perhaps this gets tiresome for ScienceBlogs readers, but here is yet
another example of the
href="http://www.waronscience.com/home.php" rel="tag">Republican
War on Science, this time in regard to
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Change"> Climate
Change.
href="http://www.…
November 4, 2006
In 2004, the Bush Administration
href="http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/07/bush-admin-may-be-responsible-for.html">blew
a Pakistani intelligence operation by revealing sensitive
intelligence information. In 2005, there was the Libby-Plame
Leak. Earlier in 2006, the Bush Administration…
November 4, 2006
The BBC reports
on a study that shows that computers with flat keyboards could reduce
the transfer of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
A hospital has developed a computer keyboard which it
says could cut cases of the MRSA superbug by 10%.
Research shows as many as 25% of keyboards…
November 3, 2006
This is another one of those studies that shows pretty much what you
would expect. There are some surprises, though:
href="http://www.medpagetoday.com/EmergencyMedicine/EmergencyMedicine/tb/4434">Night-Shift
Nap Awakens ER Residents and Nurses
By Judith Groch, Senior Writer, MedPage Today…
November 2, 2006
Two former US Surgeons General have announced that the United States
has unacceptable levels of
title="sexually transmitted diseases">STDs
and that abstinence-only education has not helped.
Note that the Presidents "
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/achievement/chap14.html">Record…
November 2, 2006
It's discouraging
seeing so many people go so wrong
all at once. It makes you question the idea that each of us has
unlimited potential for good.
Who
said that? And what was the subject?
The
quote comes from an editorial by
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_Keillor" rel="tag">…