Friday, April 20, 2007

Sachs: a new enlightenment so we may live

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I've begun listening to the Reith Lectures, a series of five weekly presentations by Jeffrey Sachs. I gather from his introduction that ...

The government owns your medical history

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Holy cow . ...Anyway, scrolling down to the section on “Use and Disclosure of Information”, we see that among the people authorized to check...

How long to make the Blacksburg schizophrenia connection?

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I've been curious how long it would take the media to make the obvious connection between the Blacksburg disaster and schizophrenia. As ...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Why are so many products so bad? Assymetrical information theory

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Does this explain why we can't buy a good toaster any more ? Or why pet food doubles as a euthenasia agend? Schneier on Security : ...In...

Returning vets: medical care and other support

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I'm attending the annual CME program of the Minnesota Academy of Family Practice, and I'm impressed. Regardless of the parlous state...

Reality is not looking good: more QM experiments

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It was thought, indeed hoped, that if we narrowed special relativity to 'meaning cannot travel faster than light', and allowed for i...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

James Fallows has a blog

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James Fallows has a blog . Doesn't anyone ever mention these things? Fallows is one of my favorite writers. His archives are unusual, th...

Phil Carter summarizes five failed military strategies in Iraq

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Phil "Intel Dump" Carter, writing in Salon, summarizes five failed military strategies used in Iraq. General Petraeus is executing...

Pet food recall again expands, and now there's a motive

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Another Chinese source with melanine contamination, this time in rice. Most interestingly, we now have a motive for melanin contamination. ...
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String theory: a one page summary

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CV tells us SEED magazine has pdf/gif (gif?! why not png?) single-page summaries of science and technology topics. The String Theory is the...

tigers, lions, cars and the evolution of risk assessment

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Emily and I were bemoaning the "new" uncertainties that afflict the middle-class American, but we had to admit that historic uncer...

New world: Outsourcing Your Crowdsourcing

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I couldn't improve on the title of this O'Reilly essay. I think it's a fascinating story. dSLR camera sensors are ridiculously ...

Morford and the virtues of small things

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Morford, a columnist for SF Gate, specializes in 'over the top' rhetoric. Sometimes it's tiresome, but often it's oddly agre...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Why now? Blacksburg and Montreal

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Within the past 20 years, in my hometown of Montreal (Quebec), there have been three sets of shootings of college students. One took place a...
Monday, April 16, 2007

Saletan and the organ trade

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The growing organ trade first came to media attention around 2002 or so. Saletan has the 2006 update. Growth has been exponential ... The w...