Gordon's Notes

Commentary: politics, science, technology and humanity. Secular humanist.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Inflammatory osteoarthritis treatments: is there anything to watch for?

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See also:  Arthritis - the feeds and queries (reference post) . There’s something problematic about human tendons and cartilage. A wide ran...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Smartphone Calendaring: survey results

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Our family loves our Google Calendars. Today, looking at Calendars 5.app on my iPhone , I see that our 5 (human) family members own 8 calend...
Monday, January 11, 2016

How to probe medical knowledge gaps -- and get a useful pub

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I researched alcoholic myopathy the other day. The results were appalling. There’s been very little research in the past 25-30 years, fundam...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Medical history: What CT did to neurology, MRI has done to sports medicine

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Few remember this now, but once neurologists were proud of their ability to localize brain injuries based on complex and detailed examinatio...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Aetna's unethical cost savings are enabled by the "arbitration" laws purchased by large corporations

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The New York Times did a superb series this fall on how large corporations changed American law to neutralize a major consumer protection — ...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Why DOJ should block Aetna and Anthem acquisitions: A story of strategic pre-authorization delays

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The health insurance industry is consolidating. Aetna acquired Humana and Anthem bought Cigna . That leaves UnitedHealth, Aetna and Anthem ...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Growing old grudgingly: The CrossFit Inversion

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Mature audiences only. Under 45 not admitted. You have been warned. I was 53 when I started my CrossFit hobby . That was almost 3 years a...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Smartphone calendaring: a brief survey

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i’m collecting some data on how people do calendaring on their smartphones to support my  special needs smartphone for independent living  b...

Calendaring in iOS, OS X, Outlook 2010 and Google Android/Chrome are all very different.

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If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare institutions can’t easily share data between computer systems, just take a look at Calendaring in iOS...
Saturday, December 05, 2015

Arthritis - the feeds and queries (reference post)

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I feel like I’m tied to a railroad track, and see the light of the train approaching. And I don’t know if it’s one mile away, or 500.   Anon...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Extremophiles and auto-immune disease

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The extremophiles  are at home in near boiling water and the deep crust of the earth. Every ecological niche is colonized by life; and life ...

Hockey skill videos (reference post)

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Adult ice hockey is a new hobby. Unsurprisingly there are lots of adult no-checking leagues in the Twin Cities,  JMS Hockey  is the one I we...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Car stereo and price hiding: Buy from Crutchfield but hire an installer.

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Our car stereo died a few weeks ago. Wire cutter  liked a model that seemed to fit our needs, the Pioneer DEH-X6800BT  ( Owners manual , I s...

The impossible machine

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The immune system is an impossible, incomprehensible, machine. It is not even a ’system’ — evolution is not so modular. We name it as a thin...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Resurrect anthropology

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One of my big disappointments of past 15 years is absence of falsifiable models of factors that create and sustain Daesh and kin.  Anthropol...
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