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One thing about hospitals, is that they
href="http://www.energybulletin.net/43514.html">use an awful
lot of
electricity. We already know about some of the
challenges
that will occur in health care in the post-peak-oil era; I wrote about
that in
href="http://scienceblogs.com/…
The urge to fisk is an omnipresent danger for all bloggers.
Usually I am strong. Usually I resist.
But this essay on World Net Daily got my fisking neurons all
in a twitter. It's by David Kupelian, and it's a World Net
Daily Exclusive! (Because no one else would print…
Dinah, writing at Shrink Rap, got
href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/05/02/meanness-and-psychiatry-dont-mix/?mod=WSJBlog">mentioned
in the Wall Steet Journal, of all places. Her post "
href="http://psychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-therapist-is-creep.html">My
Therapist is…
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it was noticed that
there were cuts in the budget to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The rationale was that we needed to shift more funds to the
global and perpetual war on terror.
At the time, I said that "the terrorists" won't…
The Ubuntu craze is sweeping SciencBlogs:
href="http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2008/04/tech_note_ubuntu_linux_804_har.php">Aardvarchaeology,
href="http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2006/11/ubuntu_for_your_parents_uncles.php">Scientific
Indian,
href="http://scienceblogs.com/…
Everyone's
anatomy has little quirks. One of mine, is the length of the
roots
of my wisdom teeth. They go down halfway to Sulawesi.
When
I was in college, I had to have two of them extracted. The
oral
surgeon told me they were "difficult extractions."
Magnanimous as…
title="The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness"
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align="left" height="226" hspace="2" width="132" class="inset">
A
while back, a guy named Lyle Rossiter wrote a book, The
Liberal Mind: The Psychological…
“Doctors think, ‘Well, of course
she’s depressed — she’s dying of breast
cancer,’” he said.
I do see that kind of response sometimes, not just with regard to
terminally ill patients. The physician does not think the
depression should be treated, because it is felt to be an expected
response…
Here at ScienceBlogs, we've regularly posted about the thorny issue of
antibiotic overuse, and the subsequent antibiotic resistance.
This is a good example of evolution in action; it's also a
good reason why we need to study and understand evolution.
But antibiotic resistance is not…
Forget to water your tomato plants? Try using ollas
(pronounced oy-ya).
href="http://urbanhomestead.org/journal/2008/03/24/using-ollas/"
rel="tag">Olla is Spanish for pot,
as in clay pot.
What you do is to get
unglazed clay pots, bury them near the plants, and put water in…
I wasn't sure whether to put the quotes around "Ruthlessness Gene," or
"Discovered." I suppose I could have just left them out
entirely, but I have this urge to spice things up a bit with
punctuation marks. Don't blame me...it's genetic.
Now, there is yet another correlation between a…
A new world record has been set:
The previous record for hanging spoons on a human face was 15.
Joe Allison "smashed" the record
with 16. He's only 16 years old. He thinks that
when his forehead is a little bigger, he'll be able to do 17.
(
href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/…
href="http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080403/more-than-90000-us-infants-are-victims-of-abuse-or-neglect.htm">More
than 90,000 u.s. infants are victims of abuse or neglect.
My question: what is
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/chertoff-bio.html">Michael…
Medscape has one of their brief 0.25 CME articles on the subject of
methylphenidate (Ritalin, et. al.) and the effect
it has on sleep. (You have to register to read it, but
registration is free.)
This is interesting because it illustrates nicely how
psychopharmacology can be confusing.…
From Think Progress:
href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/01/cheney-swore-off-moderate-campaign-promises-a-month-after-2000-election/"
rel="bookmark"
title="Permanent link to 'Cheney swore off ‘moderate’ campaign promises a month after 2000 election.'">Cheney
swore off ‘moderate’ campaign…
This is something that has been brewing for a while. I
noticed a trend among medical students, over the years, with increasing
numbers of them expressing support for universal health care in the USA.
Now it is official. A study published in the Annals of
Internal Medicine today (1…
On 26 March 1874, the great poet
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost" rel="tag">Robert
Frost was born.
Perhaps it is not so notable, but 26 March 2008 is the first
href="http://documentfreedom.org/News/20080220" rel="tag">Document
Freedom Day.
Early in the…
GrrlScientist wrote
href="http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/02/diagnosing_bipolar_disorder_wi.php">a
post last month about a potential genetic test for bipolar
disorder. Read that first to get some background.
Now, it turns out that a company is selling a testing kit that you…
This item just appeared on the news tubes, and I thought I'd pass it
along.
href="http://news.monstersandcritics.com/health/news/article_1396601.php/Distinguishing_signs_of_early_dementia_from_depression_is_tricky">Distinguishing
signs of early dementia from depression is tricky
Mar…
A reader pointed me to this article, by Miriam Axel-Lute, about the
Nonsensical Gyrations that Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield (of New
Jersey) is going through to try to avoid paying for health care:
href="http://www.metroland.net/back_issues/vol31_no10/looking_up.html">What’s
Healthy?
If…
This month
href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-18-ccc75th_N.htm">marks
the 75th anniversary of the
href="http://www.cccalumni.org/history1.html">Civilian
Conservation Corps. This item caught my attention,
because I had an uncle who was part of the CCC. He did…
When generic drugs started to become popular, many people were
skeptical. Many people got switched from brand name to
generic products, and complained that the generic did not work as well.
These complaints often were treated with skepticism. After
all, generic drugs contain the same…
There is a new website,
rel="tag">Encyclopedia of Life.
It is an online resource that aims "to document all species
of life on Earth." One featured species is Pissodes
strobi (Peck), the White pine weevil.
src="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/image%0As/beetle.jpeg"…
This is a nice bit of Scandinavian design.
But take another look. Notice the ST segment?
HT:
href="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/heartbeat-bookshelf/">Neatorama.
XP13512 is an experimental new drug currently
href="http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=XP13512">in
phase III trials for the treatment of
href="http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec16/ch215/ch215f.html"
rel="tag">restless legs syndrome. I was
reminded about this after seeing a post…
It amused me today to see two blog posts, both about users switching
from Gentoo
to *buntu.
rel="bookmark"
title="Permanent Link: Why I am making the switch from Gentoo to Kubuntu">Why
I Am Making The Switch From Gentoo To Kubuntu
href="http://fxjr.blogspot.com/2008/03/bye-gentoo-…
This is interesting. Banks think they have found a way to
make money no matter what happens.
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601010&sid=axksyBiC6q78&refer=news">As
Houston Auctions Fail, JPMorgan Exploits Taxpayers
By Darrell Preston
March 6 (Bloomberg…
The LA Times has a story about the author's own
struggle with
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000923.htm">panic
disorder and agoraphobia.
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-hew-panic3mar03,0,2971333.story">
href="http://www.latimes.com/…
In late winter, 1979, I knew an architecture student at the University
of Michigan. She wanted some pictures of buildings, in
downtown Chicago, for a presentation she had to do. She was
from Chicago, but did not have a car and did not have a camera.
I, on the other hand, had a…