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Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:12:01 -0800

Lawsuit Against Ca Science Center...
...for canceling the showing of a creationist film, Darwin's Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record. ...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:44:57 -0800

Happy Birthday, Linus
Today is the birthday of Linus Torvalds. That is all. Read the comments on this post...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:25:28 -0800

Digital Reconstruction: Color Images of Russian Empire
Thanks to a tip from a reader, for this one. A photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) made...
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:24:25 -0800

Gone Hiking
Visiting with Kevin, went hiking in Soledad Canyon. The light was crazy, alterating between awful for photography, and...
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:24:18 -0800

How To Save Electricity on Christmas
Nicely illustrated in this photo: Thanks to Jim R., who doesn't have a blog to link. Read the comments on this post...
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:31:59 -0800

A Wright Christmas
From Shorpy (Always Something Wonderful), this is a photo of the Christmas tree at the home of Wilbur and Orville Wright, in...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:49:40 -0800

When Trucks Stop, Hospitals Stop
One of the more enlightening and worrisome articles I read recently was The Perils of Efficiency, by James Surowiecki. ...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:16:59 -0800

Felix the Cat
Today is the 90th anniversary of the first Felix the Cat cartoon. 1919-Felix The Cat - Feline Follies Uploaded by...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:05:38 -0800

Let Them Eat Anti-Psychotics
I couldn't resist that title, but I must admit it isn't mine; the author's post is here. This is about the NYT...
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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:56:25 -0800

Tech Tip #8
This is a tip for selecting the fastest DNS server. OpenDNS already has fans at ScienceBlogs (1 2). I've been...
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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:05:55 -0800

Pearl Harbor Day
This is a high-resolution photo of Pearl Harbor (click to enlarge). When I saw that it had been posted to the NASA Earth...
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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:48:28 -0800

Critical Infrastructure and Jobs
I wrote about this before, a couple of times, most thoroughly here. I was reminded of this topic when I saw that the...
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:17:03 -0800

Sharon Astyk
Sharon Astyk will be joining Scienceblogs soon. Everyone is encourage to read the post about her upcoming...
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:41:59 -0800

Mortality in Eating Disorders NOS
This post is about a journal article that describes mortality rates in populations of persons with eating disorders. It...
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:28:17 -0800

Desert spiny lizard, Sceloporus magister
While we have a cold, dreary rain here: a photo of brighter, hotter times: This is from September 2007. It is a...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:16:23 -0800

Where Does All the Sulfur Go?
Environmental regulations have greatly reduced the amount of sulfur in gasoline. This has created many benefits. ...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:13:10 -0800

Trends in Volume of Scientific Publication
The USA still leads the world int he number of scientific papers published per year. Germany and Japan were essentially...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:11:56 -0800

Undercurrent?
Is there some kind of especially violent undercurrent right now, in the right-wing river of hate? Ed Brayton just posted about...
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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:35:12 -0800

Texas Bans ALL Marriages
Reasonable persons still wonder why some others insist that permitting gay marriage will threaten heterosexual marriage. ...
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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:41:47 -0800

Oxymoronic Prayer
A meme making the rounds in some circles is this: Prayer for Obama, Psalm 109:8. This is what is known as an...
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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:43:03 -0800

Telephone Psychotherapy Effective
The title of this article is a little bit misleading, although not deliberately so. The study examined the question of...
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Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:40:30 -0800

Good News for Coffee Drinkers
Actually, this is only good news for coffee drinkers who also have late-stage hepatitis C. A recent study in Hepatology...
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:57:16 -0800

Clozapine - Antipsychotic Polypharmacy, Part 1
The article I am discussing in this post is the 2008 Heinz Lehmann Award paper, published in the open-access Canadian journal,...
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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:35:17 -0800

This Is Depressing
The standard wisdom in management of Major Depression, is that medication plus psychotherapy is better that either...
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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:10:41 -0800

Scam Targets Physician Offices
A reader sent me a link about a scam that targets MD offices. It is a retread of a scam that I wrote about in 2004,...
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