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On racial discomfort and blogger diversity [DrugMonkey]Dr. Karen Ventii of the Science to Life blog has decided to stop blogging for the 'Borg. This is not terribly surprising since she recently defended her dissertation and will be moving on to her new career. I wish her all of the best. She's a great writer, as readers of her blog can attest, and I... |
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Krugman wins Nobel Prize in Economics [Pure Pedantry]The 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Paul Krugman "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity". I think this will come as a surprise to many, particularly since he's winning it alone. Most economists guessed he would win it someday, but assumed he woul... |
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Listeria and the public health infrastructure [Effect Measure]Food poisoning can be a miserable experience and sometimes you feel like you want to die rather than endure another minute of the agony, but people rarely die from food poisoning. At least for most causes of food poisoning. The exceptions are the exceedingly rare cases of botulism and the much mo... |
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Those crazy Brits [Pharyngula]This is just the craziest thing I ever heard. Politics where you can actually have politicians who don't believe in god, and where you can talk about removing the privileged status of religion from the legislative body, and where all the major political parties have organized representation by fr... |
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The Problem with Bipolar Disorder [The Corpus Callosum]The Archives of General Psychiatry has an open-access article about bipolar disorder in childhood (Child Bipolar I Disorder). I started to write about that. But then, as often happens, I stumbled upon something else. The LA Times has a consumer-oriented article about the journ... |
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Holden Thorp has a blog [Terra Sigillata]Much hoo-hah in the local fishwrapper regarding the installation yesterday of Dr Holden Thorp as Chancellor of the state's flagship university, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (installation address here). Thorp has brought a large degree of enthusiasm and optimism to Chapel Hill ... |
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