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Hunter Gatherer: Putting To Rest The “free time” Question
This is barely medical at all, but I need to say it in public. The question about whether low-technology people had “more free time than we do today” is completely unanswerable, in fact its formulated...
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For everyone in the blackout
Sometimes when facing common trouble When whole town is screwed We become actually human Act like Prometheus would Suddenly there is more humor And a party tabor style People ringing one another “Yo...
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On Profiling
Okay, so this is probably the trendiest topic on earth today and probably that’s as it should be: Why did James Holmes shoot up a theater? I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that we don’t know,...
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Two Data Sets, a Stats Package, and No Comment
Data points are for 50 states plus District of Columbia 2011 Obesity data from the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html 2011 Political affiliation data from Gallup:...
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Worst Science “Journalism” I Have Read In Years
Its an easy jab to claim that journalists are too quick to report a “controversy” by talking to advocates for either side and counterbalancing their points without mentioning that, say, the number of...
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My Only Title Here Is Mom: From The Other Side
A NICU is a terrible place for a social animal. How are you? Eye contact. A quick look- how is their baby? Going home is a good day. Bad days are unthinkable. In between is a terrible negotiation- your...
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I’m in a book!
Okay, I should have posted this a few months back. I’m in a book! My essay on Occupy Wall Street is one of the lesser contributions reprinted in Dreaming In Public: Building the Occupy Movement...
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What Should I Put in My First Aid Kit?
I was recently involved in editing a book on medicine in resource-poor circumstances, and the discussion on the first aid chapter collapsed into a disagreement on the nature of first aid. Having worked...
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In All Seriousness: First Aid
Okay, maybe that last post was a bit flip. The important question about first aid is, what situations are you expecting and what do you plan to do about them? There is something of an inverse curve...
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Irritating Things People Say About Obesity
The title should make the point of this post clear. 1) Its just simple thermodynamics The point of this rather stupid statement is that people get fat in direct proportion to the difference between...
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