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September 11, 2006
There is a lot of
information about
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve_stimulation"
rel="tag">vagus nerve stimulation as a treatment
for depression, that you can get from the latest New York Times article
(
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/business/yourmoney/10cyber.html?…
September 11, 2006
Actually, it was many days ago; but it still is relevant:
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml">Bush
Sought ‘Way’ To Invade Iraq?
During
the campaign, candidate Bush had criticized the Clinton-Gore
Administration for being too interventionist: "If we don't…
September 10, 2006
Today is suicide prevention day. Dr. Serani has the details
href="http://drdeborahserani.blogspot.com/2006/09/world-suicide-prevention-day-91006.html">here.
September 9, 2006
But this time, being late is further proof of my point. (It
would have proved it more convincingly if I never went to a party.)
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alt="I am nerdier than 98% of all people. Are you nerdier?…
September 9, 2006
The
little guy pictured to the left is
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dapoxetine" rel="tag">dapoxetine,
a drug under development for the treatment of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature_ejaculation"
rel="tag">premature ejaculation.
I wrote about this
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September 8, 2006
Just a quick note to spread the word: The University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine has put up an online archive of material about the 1918 influezna pandemic.
The 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic
Escape Community Digital Document Archive
In the summer of 2005, the Center for the…
September 8, 2006
This has been a topic here at ScienceBlogs, and elsewhere. In
this post, I point out some of the blogosphere commentary, and provide
links to some commentary published in journals that might otherwise
escape widespread attention.
href="http://scienceblogs.com/seed/2006/04/…
September 5, 2006
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060901-monkeys-photo.html">This is a pair of
twin albino pygmy monkeys, recently born at the Frösö
Zoo in Ostersund, Sweden.
They are featured in the National Geographic website's Photo in the
News section. Click on the photo to visit the…
September 5, 2006
Via the
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0831/p15s02-stct.html">Christian
Science Monitor:
Formerly a part of Yugoslavia, and on the brink of
ethnic war only a few years ago, Macedonia has become what may be the
first "wireless country" in the world. With $3.9 million from the US
Agency for…
September 4, 2006
You might have seen the article, The Terrorism Index, in Foreign Policy magazine a while ago. If you did, here is a reminder of the high points. If you did not, go read the whole thing.
September 3, 2006
A couple of days ago, I heard this
href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5746173">interview
on NPR, with Steve Inskeep. Inskeep was
interviewing
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/01/ap/national/mainD8JRRH080.shtml">Spc.
Mark Wilkerson, just before he…
September 3, 2006
I remember thinking about this film, shortly after the fall of Baghdad.
After yesterday's University of Michigan win over Vanderbilt,
which happened on the anniversary of the surrender of Japan in 1945, I
was reminded again.
From Wikipedia:
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September 2, 2006
The August 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has an
interesting article with policy implications. Unfortunately,
they did not make this one freely accessible.
The authors argue that the increased medical costs that we faced
between the years of 1960 to 2000 have been a good…
August 30, 2006
One of the articles that I read, early in my career, that influenced
the way I think about neuroscience, was this one:
href="http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/9/681">Caudate
glucose metabolic rate changes with both drug and behavior therapy for
obsessive-compulsive disorderL…
August 29, 2006
This meme involves going to the random quotations page, and picking
five quotes. The rules: “Go
href="http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3">here
and look through random quotes until you find 5 that you think reflect
who you are or what you believe.”
I saw my SciBlings doing it, but…
August 28, 2006
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Originally uploaded by icki.
This is a photo from an Ann Arbor blogger, known to the world as Icki, who has been in New Orleans lately. This is from his Flickr collection; click on the photo to go to his Flickr page.
His blog is called Down on the Street. It is one of…
August 28, 2006
This is from a recent White House press conference. The
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060821/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_text">transcript
is on Yahoo News.
QUESTION: A lot of the consequences
you
mentioned for pulling out seem like maybe they never would have been
there if we hadn’t gone in. How…
August 28, 2006
The
href="http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060821/UPDATE/608210400">Michigan
Civil Rights Commission ruled recently that small insurance
companies that cover prescription drugs must also cover the cost of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_contraceptives"
rel="tag"…
August 26, 2006
The New
England Journal of Medicine has two
freely-accessible articles this week. As is usually the case,
their free articles are about important topics at the intersection of
medicine and social policy, and are worth reading. However,
this time, both articles rub me the wrong way. (Hat tip:…
August 25, 2006
Years ago, I read a paper in which the authors proposed a model, in
which the immune system was conceptualized as a sensory organ for the
central nervous system. They did not think of it as the
primary purpose of the immune system, but they wanted to highlight the
fact that immune system activity…
August 24, 2006
There is nothing mystical about the act of understanding.
Sometimes it may seem like it, when one has an Aha! moment,
or when understanding emerges in the context of meditation or spiritual
reflection, but there really is nothing supernatural about it.
Understanding, after all, is merely an act of…
August 23, 2006
In Part I, I gave a brief review of an article in Scientific
American, entitled
href="http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=00010347-101C-14C1-8F9E83414B7F4945">The
Expert Mind.
The article described the outcome of research into the mental
processes of expert chess players. The…
August 21, 2006
The August issue of Linux
Format has an article showing how all the the
most-anticipated features of Windows Vista are available today, on
Linux. Although Microsoft touts these as "innovations," they
are not new, or at least won't be new by the time Vista is actually on
retail shelves.
One of…
August 20, 2006
The Washington Post today has an article on
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/19/AR2006081900842.html">Brazil's
milestone achievement: this year, their oil exports will
equal or exceed their imports. This is significant for a few
reasons. For one, it shows…
August 20, 2006
Found on
href="http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2006/08/15/big-time-youtube-blooper-fox-news-anchor-shep-smith/">Et Cetera: Publick
and Privat Curiosities.
(In case the embedded object does not work, the direct link to the
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0snyiFIQok">YouTube
video…
August 19, 2006
Scientific American has an article in which the
author reviews research into the expertise of chess players.
He ponders the questions of what makes an expert player an
expert, how is the problem-solving strategy of an expert different from
that of a novice, and is there a way to train people to be…
August 19, 2006
Sometimes I see links on other sites that exaggerate or misstate what
is to be found on the other end on the link.
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">Huffington
Post
is notorious for this. They come up with sensationalist
titles, then link to articles that may be rather tepid.
That is…
August 18, 2006
I don't think there is anyone left in the USA who seriously believes
that the war in Iraq was a good idea. Most accept it as fact,
that lies were told to get the public on board with the war, and that
war crimes have been committed.
It is clear at this point that the only motive for this was was…
August 17, 2006
For decades, corporate influences, primarily in the media, have
pressured women to have poor body images. This has spurred
growth of entire industries in fashion, weight loss, etc. No
doubt, billions of dollars have been made in this way. The
only price to society has been the epidemic of eating…
August 16, 2006
The buzz right now on ScienceBlogs is about Pluto.
Specifically, about the fact that Pluto has retained its
official status as a planet.
Pluto, as we all know, was discovered by the late
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Tombaugh" rel="tag">Clyde
Tombaugh, a professor at New Mexico…