Savage Minds
ddobbs | June 1, 2010A biological basis for acupuncture, or more evidence for a placebo effect? Ed Yong ponders acupuncture, placebos, and context. This I like, and there's a nice meta dimension here as well: placebos being all about context.
Abel Pharmboy reports on Marking the magnificient memory of Henrietta Lacks. A nice account of what sounds like a lovely ceremony. Among other things, testifies to the potential power of the book.
Much ado about links and where they best belong. Starting points: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Experiments in delinkification, which gets examined by ReadWriteWeb in The…