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August 16, 2006
I just love this story. A long time ago, before ScienceBlogs
even existed, people were out there in the wild, searching for a bird
called the ivory-billed woodpecker.
Grrlscientist has been
href="http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2006/05/birds_in_the_news_59_v2n10.php">keeping
us
href…
August 15, 2006
There's a
href="http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/060711_ska.htm">short
article on World Science, that informs us that "the search is
underway for sites that would be suitable for construction of a
radio-telescope array that could receive alien TV.
I knew there was a serious scarcity of…
August 14, 2006
A few days ago I
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/08/changes_in_the_drugapproval_pr.php">made
note of an article in the NEJM, about proposed changes in the
process for FDA approval of new medication. (
href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/6/618"
rel="tag">A…
August 13, 2006
I was
href="http://corpus-callosum.blogspot.com/2006/01/soup.html">really
worried about Iran after the State of the Union Address this
year. Although not many people shared my opinion, I thought
the most important aspect of the speech was the propaganda aspect, and
I thought that the biggest…
August 11, 2006
In 1969, after yet another arrest, Flint native
href="http://www.umich.edu/%7Ebhl/bhl/refhome/jls/John.htm">John
Sinclair was sentenced to 9.5 yrs in prison. The
egregious disproportionality of the sentence led to rallying cries of
FREE JOHN SINCLAIR!
Last December, I went to a pub in…
August 11, 2006
I was just thinking about the topic, not with regard to myself, but the
issue in general, because of a good interview on Ira Flatow's
href="http://www.sciencefriday.com/">Science Friday.
There is no permalink, yet, but it's the show for 8/11/2006,
second hour. They discuss the progress, or…
August 10, 2006
I know, it is a lame excuse. But I just found this article,
and am too tired to blog about it. It should be a fertile
inspirational source for someone, though, if someone else wants to get
to it before me.
From the August 10, 2006 New England Journal of Medicine:A
Proposal for Radical Changes in…
August 10, 2006
This is no big surprise, although I did not expect the magnitude of the
effect:
href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/bsj-vaw080806.php">Violence
at work significantly boosts clinical depression riskWork-related violence and threats and the risk of
depression and stress…
August 9, 2006
James Robbins, contributing editor at the National Review Online,
thinks global warming is a good idea. This is proclaimed in
his article, Hooray for Global Warming.
This is another version of the "CO2
is life" meme. And like "CO2
is life," it is utter nonsense. Anyone who would say that
fails…
August 8, 2006
Let us hope that this new article in Nature turns
out to be as important as it seems.
In a recent publication, scientists from Merck report on
title="Wikipedia link"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platensimycin" rel="tag">platensimycin,
which is a previously unknown kind of antibiotic. …
August 8, 2006
I like this article on The Nation website so much,
I'm going to copy it in its entirety. It's from their blog, The
Notion, so I think it is OK to do that.
href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=109333">Lieberman
Cancels Campaigning, Fox Carries On
John Nichols
Tue Aug 8, 4:48 PM ET…
August 7, 2006
Here are a couple more vacation photos...
Notice that the bottom photo may seem to have been taken from a greater
altitude, although that is not the case. The top one is not
really a
vacation photo; it's from the
href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060724.html">Astronomy
Picture of the…
August 7, 2006
When I was in medical school, back in the mid-80's, there was
a bit of a controversy about whether "tight" glucose regulation was a
good idea. Most people thought it was, but there was some concern that
attempts to control the glucose too tightly could lead to increased
risk of complications from…
August 6, 2006
We were asked to identify a film that did something positive for
science. I was not able to come up with anything, not being
much of a film aficionado. So I asked one of my contacts for
ideas.
My contact suggested the film,
href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/">Contact,
with Jodie…
August 6, 2006
I almost entitled this post "Lying to Congress, Part II," to be
congruent with my
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/07/lying_to_congress.php">previous
post, but it has not been established conclusively that
anyone has lied. All we know at this point is that
information is…
August 5, 2006
About 15 years ago, I was giving a lecture on psychiatric medication to
a group of MSW
students. One student asked a question that was intended to
be
provocative. She asked, "how can you justify giving
medication to
treat a problem that is obviously psychological in origin, like
posttraumatic…
August 3, 2006
OK, we're home, and I will stop cluttering up SB bandwidth with travel
photos soon. But just one more...
That's it for now.
August 3, 2006
Hint: It is literally a hands-on exhibit in a Farm and Ranch museum.
The device pictured above is a milking machine. The idea is,
supposedly, for the visitor to learn what the machine feels like to the
cow.
Somehow, I doubt the experience is very similar.
August 2, 2006
There is no excuse for this. Thanks to the
href="http://www.openvotingfoundation.org/index.html">Open
Voting Foundation, we now know that the Diebold TS (paperless
touch screen voting machine) can be booted from flash memory, bypassing
the BIOS that was tested and approved. This can be done…
August 2, 2006
I just finished reading a news release pertaining to a finding in
psychiatric genetics. I was prepared to be irritated, but was
pleased instead.
href="http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2006/ocd.htm">New
genetic findings add to understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorderKara Gavin
July…
August 1, 2006
This is a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemidophorus_neomexicanus">New
Mexico Whiptail (Cnemidophorus neomexicanus).
It was found near the roadrunner:
The roadrunner
(Geococcyx californianus) normally would eat the
lizard.
href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NM-Quirky.html"…
August 1, 2006
I am at a coffee shop in a far away town, and I have things to do.
So I am not going to write about this extensively at the
moment. Still, while looking for something else, I
encountered this abstract. The title was odd enough to get my
attention.
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query…
July 31, 2006
When I finished residency, I took a position at a University
clinic north of town. In order to get there, I had to cross a
bridge over a river. I drove over that bridge about 100 times
before the first snowfall.
On the first snowy day, while driving over the bridge, I noticed a
sign. The sign…
July 30, 2006
From the
href="http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/emnrd/parks/cityrocks.htm">City
of Rocks.
July 29, 2006
Here is the video that provides a little comic relief, after reading
about our latest efforts to study biological weapons, as mentioned in
my last post. Here is your army. Here is your army
on drugs.
July 29, 2006
This is another upsetting bit of news about our government.
The
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/29/AR2006072900592_pf.html">Washington
Post is reporting laboratory being built in Ft.
Detrick, Maryland. Known as the National Biodefense Analysis
and…
July 29, 2006
I'm sure everyone has read about this by now, but every once in a while
I just speak up to add to the resonance in the echo chamber.
If this is confirmed, it would be a flagrant illegal act by a
government agency:
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/world/middleeast/30reconstruct.html?ex=…
July 29, 2006
This is an archived post from September, 2005, posted here and now because I am away on vacation.
As
I go about my days, I get the impression that there is a lot of
confusion out there about the treatment of opiate abuse and dependence.
Wes Clark (not that Wes Clark, the other
one) has written an…