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sb admin | September 1, 2009CNNâs Elizabeth Landau reported yesterday on new research suggesting that online psychotherapy is an effective way to treat depression. The original study, published August 22 in the Lancet by Dr. David Kessler and colleagues in the UK, examined the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) delivered by a therapist online in real time. When compared to usual care only, a combination of online CBT and usual care led to higher rates of recovery at follow-up eight months later.
Despite logistical and policy issues â health insurance coverage of online therapy, legal questions about…
gregladen | September 1, 2009Go check out Everything Worth Reading, in which a post of mine is dubbed "Post of the Month" ... there area LOT of great posts referenced there, so do browse around!
gregladen | September 1, 2009I am now blogging full time so expect about a ten fold increase in posts per day.
I'm only kidding about the ten fold increase. In fact, you should expect a decrease in quantity because I've got two simultaneous writing projects and that will be taking up more of my time. Also, once the offspring is born, that will be a bit of time as well. Over the next few weeks I'll be refining, focusing, and reorienting the blog a bit. I'm looking at what people actually read and what people seem to mostly ignore, so that I can stop bothering with that which is ignored. If you have comments,…
sb admin | September 1, 2009by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure
It's not Labor Day yet, but I guess the Reveres have to consider their vacation over. We're all back at our respective home stations. We admit that not watching flu evolve daily was a relief, although we did sneak peeks when we weren't supposed to. But it also proved to be like the stock market. The daily ups and downs sometimes obscure the bigger picture. So what does it look like now?
We have two contradictory impressions. One is that the pandemic has continued to develop in a very robust fashion. So it's a dynamic picture of change. The second…
skookumchick | September 1, 2009I don't know about you, but here at Purdue, the administration is doing everything it can to freak us all out about the prospect of a flu pandemic. We're getting emails about how we need to figure out ways to cover class material if the university closes, we need ways to contact our students with "the new plan" if everyone comes down with flu, ways to help students catch back up if they're out with the flu, and for those of us who teach first-year students, telling students about the student health center and how they need to get a receipt when they go visit it so as to excuse their absences…
cwilcox | August 31, 2009Every month, the blog at BioData.com features one scientist. They delve into the scientist's background, motivations for doing what they do, and general awesomeness. And guess who is the scientist of the month for August 2009?
... Yeah, that's right. You know you're jealous.
So if you want to know any more about me than you already do, feel free to check it out!
grrlscientist | August 31, 2009The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 5584 - 1823 - 1578 - 1207 - 1117 out of 536 candidates registered. I am in third place and sloooowly creeping up on second place. With less than 4 weeks remaining (especially if the Quark site crashes), voting is changing rapidly as previous voters reassign their votes and new voters cast theirs for the first time. Many tens of thousands of votes have already been cast in this competition, so if the people who have cast their votes already decide to change them, they can significantly affect the outcome of this competition. The top four…
thescian | August 31, 2009Well, you knew that already. Anyway, here's something to read and fume about.
Here in the island, things aren't great either. The inanely orchestrated coverage at the BBC leading up to the release of the Lockerbie criminal was/is breathtaking in its obviousness.
grrlscientist | August 31, 2009Since I have recently developed quite a history of visiting cold and snowy places, often during the winter, I wish to preserve that tradition. I am competing for the opportunity to go to Antarctica in February 2010 -- a dream adventure that I've always wanted to pursue (and almost did pursue when I was an undergraduate researching Fin Whales and Crabeater Seals at the University of Washington). To enter, all candidates must publish a picture of themselves and write an essay explaining why we think we are the best choice, and solicit votes from the public. Whomever receives the most votes wins…
cortex | August 31, 2009I'll be filling in for Andrew Sullivan this week, so most of my blogging will be over there. I'll try to cross-post some of the meatier posts, like this one:
The LA Times profiles the normalization of pot:
After decades of bubbling up around the edges of so-called civilized society, marijuana seems to be marching mainstream at a fairly rapid pace. At least in urban areas such as Los Angeles, cannabis culture is coming out of the closet.
At fashion-insider parties, joints are passed nearly as freely as hors d'oeuvres. Traces of the acrid smoke waft from restaurant patios, car windows and…
gregladen | August 31, 2009First it was woo. Then it was Russian Brides. And now.....
This funny ad from yesterday:
And this one staring at me right now:
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jjacquet | August 31, 2009
Meat production is hard on the environment and slaughterhouses are hard on our sensibilities. Imagine if we could grow meat in a laboratory, outside an animal, and fashion it into a nicely shaped cow ready for carving -- all with less energy and no suffering. We're almost there. Lee Billings wrote an article on in-vitro meat published today at Seedmagazine.com and I voice my response to the idea of laboratory-made meat here.
grrlscientist | August 31, 2009Happy Birthday to the Tangled up in Blue Guy, Mike Haubrich! Mike is a good guy who is involved with all sorts of media-related things, ranging from writing articles for the Los Angeles Times and directing the Atheists Talk Radio Show in Minnesota to helping the HMS Beagle Project in the UK. Besides being my friend, Mike also has endorsed my own bid to be the Official Antarctica Blogger. In short, the world is a better and richer place because Mike is here. Many thanks, Mike, for the many kind and selfless things you do for so many people. Here's my gift to you.
grrlscientist | August 30, 2009The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 5481 - 1819 - 1575 - 1205 - 1117 out of 534 candidates registered. I am in third place and sloooowly creeping up on second place. With less than 6 weeks remaining (especially if the Quark site crashes), voting is changing rapidly as previous voters reassign their votes and new voters cast theirs for the first time. Many tens of thousands of votes have already been cast in this competition, so if the people who have cast their votes already decide to change them, they can significantly affect the outcome of this competition. The top four…
gregladen | August 30, 2009That's The Mike, of Tangled Up in Blue Guy, and Quiche Moraine.
The title of this post, "Ignorance of how evolution works is amazing to behold. " is a quote from one of my favorite (recent) posts by TUIB Guy, which is called: The Agony and The Irony. A close second is Logic and Perspective. Please stop over at Mike's blog, wish him a happy birthday, and have a look at these posts.
KTHXBAI
gregladen | August 30, 2009
Enjoy this before it goes away. Embeding may get disabled at any moment.
Hat Tip: Lightning Fingers Liz
grrlscientist | August 30, 2009Everyone loves free books, right? Well, I know I do, and since I've got a huge stack of books in my apartment that are seeking a loving home, I want to share them with you. These books are duplicates of review copies, advance reading copies and uncorrected proofs as well as some books that I purchased. All books are in excellent (like new) shape, unless otherwise noted. I am offering them to you several times per week for the next few months, free of charge, although I will ask you to pay the cost of the shipping envelope and postage for mailing each book to you. Below the jump is a list of…
gregladen | August 30, 2009".. here's the toll free number for the hair club for wizards!.."
The wrap-up is totally stolen from Indiana Jones. Sorry about the ads at the end.
Hat Tip: Miss Cellania