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photo is from the Wikimedia Commons featured pictures
section.
It depicts Two
href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Phelsuma_laticauda"
title="Phelsuma laticauda">gold dust day geckos
(…
The Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Canadian,
bilingual), an open-access publication, has a regular column entitled
Psychopharmacology for the Clinician (Psychopharmacologie
pratique). Typically the column contains a case
report and a brief discussion of practical issues in treatment…
Fred
Thompson's campaign site has the following quote on the home
page:
"We are steeped in the tradition of honor and sacrifice for the greater
good. We are proud of this heritage. I believe that
Americans are once again ready to achieve this greater good, which is
nothing less than…
The Journal of the American Medical Association
has a sort-of-surprising article on the subject of peak oil.
"Peak
Oil" is a catchphrase that denotes the phenomenon of
declining oil production that is anticipated to occur in a matter of
some years. The "some" part of that is hotly…
Problem #1: College Republicans were shamed by
href="http://operationyellowelephant.blogspot.com/2005/07/operation-yellow-elephant-101.html">Operation
href="http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2005_06_19_patriotboy_archive.html#111924907437313848">Yellow
href="http://www.preemptivekarma.com/…
Researchers studying the European common lizard (Zootoca
vivipara, formerly Lacerta vivipara) have
learned of a three-part mating strategy. Different members of
the species have disticutly different mating strategies.
Additionally, the colors of the bellies are correlated with
the…
This is from a site on Medscape, Infosite. It is a multimedia
program about
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/10/update_on_nrp104_less_potentia.php">Vyvanse®
(lisdexamfetamine dimesylate), a long-acting amphetamine. The
video is positively mind-blowing:
This shows…
rel="tag">Naomi Klein's
href="http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine" rel="tag">Shock
Doctrine is a powerful piece of work. I
became aware of it after a tip from a
href="http://www.quirkynomads.com/wpt/">reader.
I saw the video "trailer" for the book, and knew I had to…
In this case, peace won.
Marisa Crockett speaks to an Albuquerque
Police Department officer at UNM about her free hugs project to travel
across the United States in her bio-fueled car, offering hugs and
hoping to get the word out about her recycling program. The officer was
responding to a…
Finally, a cool way to commute via bicycle!
Actually, it is
not a new idea, but perhaps the cooling aspect has been overlooked.
One thing that has kept me from riding a bicycle to work has been the
concern that I would be too sweaty upon arrival. This
invention might take care of that…
I wonder if he really believes this? If so, he dementia is
worse than I
thought:
href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/bush_never_really_thought_abou.html">Bush:
'Never really thought about' war
Posted by Mark Silva on
October 5, 2007
President Bush, interviewed…
This device, a
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071003/sc_nm/germany_pillow_life_dc">computerized
pillow, may have a medical justification. But I
would recommend caution.
Daryoush Bazargani, a computer science professor in Germany, has
invented a device that he
believes can be used to…
This is a photo of star trails over the
href="http://www.friendsofthebosque.org/">Bosque del Apache
National Wildlife Refuge. The anomaly in the upper
left is an "
rel="tag">Iridium flare," a reflection from
an
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_%28satellite%29"
title…
We all had some laughs when the two-bladed razor was
improved with the
addition of a third blade. Late-night comedians joked about
razors coming with four or even five blades.
Then, we all had a few more chuckles when the four-bladed Schick
Quattro actually made it to market, soon followed…
Actually, the full headline is:
href="http://www.huliq.com/36055/genetic-test-for-suicidal-ideation-in-patients-using-antidepressant-drugs%20">Genetic
test for suicidal ideation in patients using antidepressant drugs.
A company called Neuromark has made available a genetic test that it
claims…
In the most recent debate among Presidential hopefuls in the
Democratic Party, there was an exchange regarding the so-called
"ticking bomb" question. The question itself, and the way it
was handled, reveals shortcomings in the way we evaluate our candidates.
TIM RUSSERT: I want to move to…
Howard Hughes Medical Institute has announced a policy to
promote open-access publication of scientific papers. They
are not only supporting it philosophically, but financially as well.
In fact, they are not only supporting it, but requiring
it for their researchers:
href="http://…
One of their flagship products, Excel , has been caught
making errors doing simple multiplication.
href="http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/09/25/calculation-issue-update.aspx">According
to a Microsoft Developer blog:
Yesterday evening we were alerted to an
issue in Excel 2007 (…
The government is finally moving the legal system into the 21st
century, with wiki-based laws. The idea is that the people
are
the customer, and the customer should have a say in the rules.
This is, oddly, a government-sponsored revolution.
Of course, this would not be possible in a…
The implantable cardioverter defibrillator is a device
placed under the
skin, near the heart. It delivers an electric shock to the
heart when a dangerous abnormal rhythm is detected. As you
might suspect, it hurts when this shock occurs (doctors call it a "
href="http://www.medscape.…
Sorry, no bizarre sex organ photos this time. But
the story is interesting from an evolutionary standpoint.
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070925-bat-bugs.html">Bat
Bugs Evolved Fake Genitals to Avoid Sex Injuries
Anne Minard
for National…
The government, finally getting wise,
has installed
href="http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7BA602DDD6-4C6E-413C-8299-F951DBA7CC0C%7D&language=EN">100
stations to measure wind velocity in 32 areas. The
idea tis to get a map of available resources for the generation of wind…
I was prompted to rant again about health insurance, after
reading a post at Blogcritics. The author was highly critical
of the
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092501474.html">SCHIP
proposals.
href="http://blogcritics.org/archives/…
In response to customer demand, computer manufacturers pressured
Microsoft into offering an easier way for users to "downgrade" their
new machines.
Business customers who feel that Vista is too bloated and slow, or who
find it doesn't run what they need it to run, now can get Vista taken…
The long-awaited details of the Hillary Clinton health care
finance
plan have been revealed. The plan has received lukewarm
support
from columnists at NYT (
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/opinion/21krugman.html?hp">Paul
Krugman) and
href="http://www.economist.com/world/na/…
A new report on sleep disorders in pain patients reveals a
not-very-surprising finding: chronic opioid treatment is associated
with very high incidences of both obstructive and central sleep apnea.
href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/81771.php">Higher
Risk Of Sleep Apnea…
Some people are amazingly creative...or thirsty.
(
href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=854&num=5">Source)
The Republican War on Science is not a war on science, after
all. It is
href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091907R.shtml">a war
on reality itself.
One of the essential skills a medical student has to
learn is the ability to take a list of symptoms, exam findings, and lab
results and determine which diagnosis is consistent with that
data. For example, when seeing a patient like the gorgeous
and brilliant woman pictured above, you…
Courtesy of
rel="tag">NASA, we have this pair of images
illustrating the record
growth rate of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Humberto_%282007%29">hurricane
Humberto (2007):
From
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17773">…