Humor?
revere | December 25, 2007In my Christmas stocking this morning I found a Season's greeting from the excellent down-under medical/public health blog impactEDnurse. Here's the card and the link to the little present that goes with it:
I offer you up a nurses public service video on the best way to detect avian influenza: http://impactednurse.com/?p=428
Merry Christmas. And Gesundheit.
revere | October 28, 2007Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig continues to wage his lonely and courageous effort to clear himself from charge his "wide stance" toilet habits led to the unjust accusation he was actually engaged in soliciting sex from a man in the next stall (who turned out to be an undercover police officer staked out in a restroom with a reputation as a meeting place for such liaisons). I know it looks bad. But there are enough other stories about to show how easy it is to mistakenly judge restroom visits. One of my favorite blogs, Brain Police, reminds us of just such a case, as reported by the…
revere | July 27, 2007This may be the most hilarious headline I have ever seen:
Insane donor 'rational to give to Tories'
I'm not sure if it is exactly correct to call Britain's Tories (the Conservative Party) the counterpart to the Republicans in the US, but they are at least the primary opposition to the Labour Party, which bears a faint resemblance to the US Democratic Party (including having had a Bush enabler at the helm). So I'll make the comparison anyway, even though I know someone is going to comment how I "know nothing" about British politics. I'll give you my riposte ahead of time: Get a life. Anyway.…
revere | May 20, 2007Indonesia's Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, has joined WHO's Executive Board.
The Detikcom news website reports Siti Fadilah Supari has been elected unanimously during the 60th World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva,
The health minister says the nomination represents world recognition and appreciation of Indonesia's active role in coping with global health problems. (Radio Australia)
Sort of like George Bush giving the Medal of Freedom to the architects of the Iraq War, I guess.
I had a hard time deciding what tag to put on this, although "Humor? (sarcasm)" seemed the most appropriate…
revere | April 29, 2007After recent posts related to intellectual property and more than I can count about bird flu, time to become more efficient and combine them:
Chinese police have nabbed a pirate DVD production and sales ring that had concealed their operation in a supposed bird flu research base in east China's Jiangxi Province.
Zheng Deming, head of the provincial anti-pornography and anti-illegal publications office, said police in Jiangxi, Hubei and Guangzhou seized at least 16 alleged members of a fake DVD ring which has produced and sold about 26.4 million DVDs in two years.
Zheng said they received…
revere | April 28, 2007The problem is now being recognized at the highest levels of the US government.
revere | February 9, 2007The gene for the optic nerve anal sphincter reflex arc is on the Y chromosome. Newspapers are cheaper.
revere | January 21, 2007When newspaper columnist Art Buchwald died on Wednesday I had to laugh. Forgive me if this shocks you, but he always made me laugh, even when he died. In an interview on PBS's Newshour, Jeffrey Brown played a video of Buchwald reading the first sentence he would write if he were to write his obituary in The New York Times. Looking straight into the camera, with a twinkle in his eye, he says, "I'm Art Buchwald and I died today." I laughed.
Buchwald developed kidney failure in December of 2005 and elected not to have dialysis, instead entering a hospice to die on his own terms, and then, when…
revere | January 13, 2007There's bird flu in Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, China, Nigeria, Egypt. You can read about that stuff anywhere. But it's Saturday, so you'll get this, my apology to Homeland Security. Because good manners are always timely.
I confess I've been openly skeptical about the efficacy of the requirement to remove my shoes at airport screening stations. Shoe bombs? Gels? Give me a break, I thought. It's no wonder Richard Reid didn't succeed. It's almost impossible to pull this off.
But then I found this AP story:
In 2006, U.S. agents increased their seizures of counterfeit goods by 83 percent,…
revere | October 16, 2006The Onion Radio News (audio clip) carries a story about sharing research results, a matter that has received quite a lot of attention on this site. We think their version is just about right.
revere | July 12, 2006So here I am, stuck at the airport with no internet connection. Don't ask me why. I am showing a signal, but this has been the Trip from Hell, so I'm not surprised. It should have been easy. One hour flight time, nice hotel on the waterfront, all day meeting with interesting people discussing laboratory security policy, hop on the plane, home in another hour. It should have been easy. So far it hasn't been.
I got to the airport early to discover Delta had canceled my flight, the last Delta flight of the evening. Don't wait in line at the service desk, the helpful attendant told me. Use the…
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From Modern Mechanix, 1937.