Corey’s Blather Blog

http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=6530

Anyone publicly claiming that medicine doesn't work should not be allowed in a hospital no matter how sick or injured they are.

Also... anyone claiming we didn't evolve doesn't get new flu shots. (Hey... we wouldn't need NEW ones if the flu wasn't EVOLVING!)

Yeah... I'm having an angry day now.

This sums it up nicely.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-ncaa-evil.html

The money should flow into the school and go to the things the school is DESIGNED TO DO. Foster research, educate the student body, provide scientific benefit flow to the community.

Instead... it's a racket where a select few rake off the lion's share of the money and even the privileged athletes involved seldom come out of it ahead for their effort. No matter the four years they may be heroes astride the campus, in the final analysis 3/4 of of them are undereducated, useless failures.

Thanks for the memories?

Just get rid of it all.

http://www.slate.com/id/2210635

This article is kind of encouraging. I'm no Sheldon, but it does help illustrate what it is like sometimes to try to fit in.

When I was 12, it was so bad I was suicidal. Maybe a modern 12-year-old wouldn't have to go through this?

OK, I exaggerate only slightly.

http://www.physorg.com/news152902340.html

I'm sure I could find a web page that says "Green Tea Cures Cancer". What's the difference between my sensationalist headline and such a one?

Only that mine is correct.

http://www.physorg.com/news152817247.html

 Metrics that try to elaborate on more details about drinking during
pregnancy. Note the bit about how "just volume" measurements aren't
enough.

 I've always felt the rabid reactions to studies that suggest standing
NEAR a bottle of wine while pregnant will cause your embryo to explode
were fed by the complete lack of nuance. The truth is always more
gray.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090130/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_gold_sewage
 
I still say I will make my billions getting money for sifting through
garbage in garbage dumps. If Japan can get more cash per tonne of
sewage for just the gold in it, I can certainly make money sorting out
garbage, right?
 
As I've said 1000 times... sifting through garbage is just a software problem.

http://www.physorg.com/news152284917.html
 
Do NOT tell your mother!
 
I did look at the UT Austin website for this department. To be
perfectly honest the initial impression I got was not favourable.
Firstly, the graduate program links go to a central one for the whole
physics department, which is just scads of legalese and requirements.
Nothing about the actual interaction with an adviser that most places
say is critical.
 
Plus the web page for fusion department is VERY mickey-mouse.
 
But... there is something to be said for graduate school in Austin.
Fusion research that is actually on the verge of doing something
useful instead of "any decade now". I will have to consider it
seriously as part of the short list of schools, just based on the
location.

http://www.physorg.com/news152264729.html
 
Every time I take a swig of Mountain Dew now, I'm going to be
visualizing how they use hydrochloric acid and caustic soda to
dissolve corn into high-fructose corn syrup. In vats made of mercury.
 
Yum.

Apparently shortsightedness may be caused in part by not spending
enough time outdoors.
 
I want to spend more time with our son outside anyway. This is just
more motivation to do so.
 
http://www.physorg.com/news150487968.html

http://www.physorg.com/news150461470.html
 
I confess I don't get this one.
 
1) Who keeps formula at 25C unless the baby is actively drinking it?
 
2) Who mixes it with milk instead of water?
 
3) What do these bacteria DO if the baby is infected?
 
I'm embroiled in a "test" right now but my brain jumped to the
(probably wrong) conclusion that maybe a simple change will stop our
next kid from being so impossible to put to bed at 3mo - 6mo of age.
 
Pffft... yeah right.