Occasionally, an article on sleep in the newspapers is actually good. Like this one.
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The BBC is running an interview with Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, and it's very good. Bell-Burnell is the woman who discovered pulsars, and until I heard this interview, I hadn't realized how it was done.
Yeah, there weren't computers available so the reams of data came out on strip chart - paper…
This entry needed migrating from the old blog. Thank you for your indulgence. --PalMD
JPANDS, the mouthpiece of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, is a well-known organ or quackery, so it seemed like a good idea to see what they've been up to lately. It's not good. The most…
A colleague and fellow freethinker at Bemidji State University, Dann Siems, has been diagnosed with a terminal glioblastoma. This is not good. This is damned scary stuff. He's still blogging away occasionally, discussing the experimental treatments being tried on him, but this is all expensive, and…
This article in Salon.com sums up my feelings about the whole Paris Hilton fiasco almost perfectly:
Even after years of watching Hilton direct the media like her own obedient little phalanx of winged monkeys, it would take a coldhearted cynic to doubt that Hilton was experiencing real pain and…
Hey, do you know how I wake up early in the morning? I wind the alarm clock several times: first bell rings at 5.30.am, then the second one - at 6.30. and the third - at 7.00.am!!! and do you know, why I do this? For prolonging the pleasure of sleeping!!! hehehe:) Crazy?