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September 26, 2006
The Detroit Free Press has a brief
href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006609230319">article
on a book,
href="http://www.amazon.com/Weird-Michigan-Mark-Moran/dp/1402739079/ref=sr_11_1/102-1767958-2700922?ie=UTF8">Wierd
Michigan, by Linda Godfrey. One choice
selection:…
September 25, 2006
I am not feeling well today, so here is a low-overhead (for me) set of
links. Anything thoughtful that goes up here yesterday,
today, or tomorrow was written ahead of time, and scheduled.
The last one was from science news. This one is
from blogs. Anyway, here goes:
href="http://amygdalagf.…
September 25, 2006
I am not feeling well today, so here is a low-overhead (for me) set of
links. Anything thoughtful that goes up here yesterday,
today, or tomorrow was written ahead of time, and scheduled.
Anyway, here goes:Stem
Cell Transplantation Safely Improves Heart Failure in Humans
(Medscape; free…
September 25, 2006
One of the nutty aspects of the Medicare prescription drug program is
the so-called "
href="http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/21/the_face_on_the_doughnut_hole.php">doughnut
hole." The doughnut hole occurs once the
beneficiary reaches a certain spending limit. This is
described in a…
September 25, 2006
...That the hospital I work in finally installed an electronic medical
record system. I was messing around with it and discovered
that the hospital administration had accessed a record of a sleep study
the hospital had done on me. It turned out that they were
trying to figure out a way to use my…
September 25, 2006
This is a follow-up to yesterday's post. Yesterday, I pointed
out that the EPA ignored the advice of its own scientists in developing
new rules for fine particulate matter pollution. Now, we hear
what some of those experts have to say. Furthermore, they
point out that the EPA not only ignored…
September 24, 2006
Frank O'Donnell, writing at TomPaine.com,
has an article about the RWOS
as applied to clean air regulation. It turns out that the EPA
has developed new air quality standards for the control of particulate
matter pollution. But the new rules are not based upon the
advice of their scientists and…
September 23, 2006
There is no additional comment needed; the study speaks for itself:
href="http://today.reuters.com/news/ArticleNews.aspx?type=domesticnews&storyID=2006-09-20T191504Z_01_N20379527_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-CHEATING.xml">Business
grad students most likely to cheat: study
Wed Sep 20, 2006
Reuters…
September 22, 2006
Funny how sometimes things fall into place. Yesterday, I
wrote a post about DeVos' promotion of the teaching of Intelligent
Design/Creationism. I also heard that
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060922/wr_nm/chavez_dc_1">Hugo
Chavez' mention of Noam Chomsky's book,
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September 21, 2006
When I came home from work, and saw the headline: DeVos Backs
Discussion of Intelligent Design, I knew I wanted to blog it.
Alas, I get the afternoon paper.
href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/09/devos_and_intelligent_design.php#more">Ed
Brayton gets the
href="http://www.freep.…
September 21, 2006
If you decry the practice of "legislating from the bench," then why is it OK to legislate from the corporate boardroom?
September 21, 2006
The Foo Bar is closed. You will have to come back in the morning.
September 20, 2006
I find it interesting that one of the recipients of a Lasker Clinical
Research Award this year was
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Beck" rel="tag">Aaron
Beck. Dr. Beck is a psychiatrist. He is
widely regarded as the originator of cognitive therapy.
The rationale is outlined in the…
September 20, 2006
I'll be curious to see if there turns out to be a parallel between what
is happening now in the auto industry, and what happens in the future
in the computing industry.
We recently passed the 25th anniversary of the original IBM PC (
href="http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/…
September 19, 2006
This is from the Chicago
Tribune "Images in the News" feature.
Unfortunately, I saved it to my flash drive earlier in the
week. Now, it is no longer on their site, so I cannot provide
the caption or the photo credit. So do me a favor and go to
their site, and click on some of the ads. Just…
September 19, 2006
The tagline on my old blog was "Observation are gold; hypotheses,
silver; and conclusions, bronze." This reflects my
philosophy, that observation is the fundamental source of all
knowledge. The father you go from your raw observations, the
more likely you are to make a mistake.
To illustrate:…
September 19, 2006
Now we learn that the keys that open Diebold voting machines are widely available on the Internet. These people are fools. The nutty thing is this: Diebold also makes ATMs. Are their ATMs constructed with such shoddy security? Probably not. What does this mean?
September 18, 2006
Facetime
Communications has
href="http://www.facetime.com/pr/pr060918.aspx">announced
that they have seen evidence of a new Internet worm that spreads via
AOL Instant Messenger. It comes in the guise of a picture,
that is astually an executable file.
The user first sees an ordinarily link,…
September 18, 2006
The
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color="blue" size="5">Signs
color="blue" size="5">.org
site is back online. It was
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/09/impeach_bush_kerfuffle.php">shut
down for a few days because
it was…
September 18, 2006
Stumpy
is a fabled Texan Tan tarantula,
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphonopelma">Aphonopelma
anax, that was hit by a car and nursed
back to health with triple nail hardener. I assume that is
finger- and toenail hardener.
Stumpy had narrowly missed being yet another
uncounted…
September 18, 2006
The rest of the world would be laughing at us about this, if we did not have nuclear weapons.
September 16, 2006
Yes!magazine is one of my favorite progressive publications.
The reason is that they tend to take a positive view of
everything. That is unlike a lot of politically-oriented
publications, most of which somehow manage to make everything sound
dire.
The latest issue has several articles on health…
September 16, 2006
I missed this the first time around, but now I am "happy" to report
that the gender pay gap is narrowing. On August 31, 2006,
just in time for Labor Day, the US Dept. of Labor issued
href="http://www.dol.gov/asp/media/reports/workforce2006/factsheet.htm">a
report that shows a shrinking of the…
September 15, 2006
What Congress set out to do, was to come up with ethics reform
legislation that would show that they are addressing the concerns of
the public, in the wake of numerous scandals. Reportedly,
though, both parties were reluctant to put limits or their interactions
with lobbyists. Instead, they are…
September 14, 2006
GARDASIL®,
the vaccine intended to prevent infection with
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papilloma_virus"
rel="tag">human papillomavirus (HPV), was
controversial even before it was
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/18/health/main1628221.shtml">approved
by the FDA…
September 13, 2006
There's a kerfuffle in Washtenaw County, Michigan, over the use of a
website that promotes the sale of "Impeach Bush" yard signs.
According to the
href="http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-19/115807203398650.xml&coll=2">Ann
Arbor News, the host,
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September 12, 2006
This is from the
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17391">Nasa
Earth Observatory site. If you've ever been curious
about the dynamics of sand dunes, be sure to go to their site and read
the little essay on the subject.
September 11, 2006
All day we've been hearing about the terrorist attacks that took place
on 9/11/2002. We've heard especially from the families of
victims, and from the workers who continue to have health problems.
Some of you probably even listened to our President talk
about 9/11.
Often we hear that 9/11 changed…
September 11, 2006
The adjective extreme has been extremely overused
in recent years. For example, I recently saw a sign in a gas
station that advertised an Extreme Meal Deal: a hot dog, chips, and
soda for $2.49.
But
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