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The
Dean of the College of Tropical Agriculture is worried about the
effects that climate change could have on Hawaii, given the fragility
of the ecosystem there:
href="http://starbulletin.com/2007/05/20/news/story03.html">Warming
signs seen stressing state's growth
By Helen Altonn
20 May…
Only
in LA, they say, but these things could happen anywhere.
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-only22may22,0,5393460.column?coll=la-home-middleright">
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-only22may22,0,5393460.column?coll=la-home-middleright">A
wanted man who wanted…
It has been a party, sure enough; more like an exercise in
Bacchinalian debauchery.
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201653.html?hpid=topnews">Changes
Spurred Buying, Abuses
By Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Scott Higham
Washington Post…
This
is in response to a
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/05/childhood_ptsd.php#comment-439606">comment
from a prior post. There are a few related questions here.
Can preemies develop PTSD, can
they be labeled with PTSD, if they can get PTSD is it fundamentally the
same…
One of the things that most consistently surprised me, when I was doing
the consultation-liaison rotation in residency, was how common delirium
was, and how frequently it was missed by the medical team.
Even since then, it has evolved into a pet peeve of mine. The
brain is a rather…
This
topic (global dimming) has already been mentioned on SB twice, once on
href="http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2007/04/egu.php">Stoat,
once on
href="http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2006/08/what_is_global_dimming.php">Living
the Scientific Life. Others have picked up on it,…
I
specifically remember a phrase from a handout I read in the second
year of med school, imploring us to not depersonalize patients by
referring to them, for example, as "the pancreas in room XXX."
That was the thought that I had when I saw a photo in the LA Times:
This
is only a part of the…
Each
of the major papers has to choose one story to have the most prominent
headline. Today, USA Today chose this one:
href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-05-17-gas-prices_N.htm">
href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-05-17-gas-prices_N.htm">Drivers
cut back — a…
These are from the World
Wildlife Federation News blog.
Newborn:
Day 3:
Day 120:
The full set of photos is
href="http://news.worldwild.org/evolution-of-a-new-born-panda/">here.
Absolutely the most precious thing in the world.
With Wolfowitz out, Gonzalez on the way, can they even be seriious
aboutthis nomination?
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/washington/18safety.html?ex=1337140800&en=41c7eca6618bb131&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">Bush
Asked to Reconsider Safety Nominee
By STEPHEN…
Yet
another photo from
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17644">NASA's
Earth Observatory page, showing yet more evidence of what
carbon dioxide hath wrought.
In
the past 125 years, the Athabasca Glacier has lost half of its volume
and…
Often,
on this blog, I've ranted about the risks that our government, and our
corporate citizens, e.g. pharmaceutical companies, expose us to on a
daily basis.
Perhaps it would be good to put some of those risks in perspective.
That is, to compare the risks of various medications to…
What
is the correct follow-up for an impeachmint?
There
is only one possible answer...
Speaking
of open-source software, I recall posting a while back when
the percentage of visits to Corpus Callosum, by users of Internet
Explorer, dropped below 50%.
Now, it is 24%. Roughly parallels President Bush's approval
rating. I wonder what those two stats would look like on a…
From CNN Money:
href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/">Microsoft
takes on the free world
Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a
big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants
royalties from…
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Domestic violence and
other forms of childhood trauma are all too common. The
effects of trauma on children have been studied in a variety of ways,
but much of this research has not employed strict diagnostic criteria.
Now, the Archives of…
The
LA Times reports on the Senate passage of a bill that should enhance
the oversight of drug safety by the FDA. Numerous posts here
on ScienceBlogs, and elsewhere, have commented on the problems with
safety oversight. The existence of these problems has been no
secret since the Vioxx…
I
took out the blogroll for now because it was taking forever to load.
I will put it back, somewhere, probably at the bottom of the
page. I hate to do that, but Blogrolling was just not
responsive enough.
UPDATE: The blogroll has been moved to its own page, accessible via a link under…
For
anyone who is interested, Medscape has a nice, concise
href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/554128">summary
article about medication treatment options for bipolar
disorder. They focus on the atypical antipsychotics, but
cover the mood stabilizers, too.
width="500">…
href="http://www.southwestbioenergy.com/html/news_release__.html">Southwest
BioEnergy has announced a plan to build a
href="http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/">biomasss
electrical generation facility in
href="http://www.google.com/maps?q=Vado,+NM,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title…
You
all will be pleased to know that bug #177773 in cowsay has been
fixed. The cow's tongue now will be rendered correctly.
j7uy5@localhost ~ $ cowsay Corpus Callosum is weird!
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< Corpus Callosum is weird! >
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I find it amusing to see things that are both elaborate and pointless,
especially if the pointlessness is obvious. (from:
href="http://xkcd.com/c257.html">XKCD)
rel="tag">
Jack
Lessenberry
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> is fairly well known in
Ann Arbor, being an historian, journalist, and senior political analyst
(or something like that, I can't remember his exact title) for
href="http://www.michiganradio.org/">WUOM.
A year ago…
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Blackwater USA was
co-founded by former Navy Seal Erik Prince, a "billionaire right-wing
fundamentalist Christian from a powerful Michigan Republican family."
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">By the end of 2004
Blackwater's president, Gary…
Some
call it "hillbilly heroin," something I could not bring myself to say
aloud. But that illustrates the strong feelings that people
have about the drug,
href="http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/oxycontin/">Oxycontin.
As painkillers go, it is pretty strong. Sometimes
it…
The spoof site is here.
The spoof video:
I know this is kind of old, but still worth a chuckle or two.
(Note: if the accent marks look weird, set your browser to view character encoding as Unicode (UTF-8))
One
of the problems with the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders">Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is that there is…
"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/04/AR2007050401976.html?hpid=topnews">Resilient
Infections Worry Military Doctors" is a headline in the
Washington Post. It reflects a serious concern often noted
here at ScienceBlogs. I read it and worried, again…
Sometimes
newspapers raise more questions than they answer. In the case
of this WaPo editorial about Medicare, I find myself wishing that they
had done a little more research.
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/04/AR2007050401871.html">Unsustainable…
For
some completely inexplicable reason, MT won't let me reply to the
comment under my last post. But I can still post posts, so
here is the question and the answer:
Q: Wow, is this serious? I have amblyopia, and would
really, really love to get some of my vision back. In part because it's
a…