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Jonathan W. Yewdell: How to Succeed In Science

post from Nerdy Science Blog on 17 May 2008 11:21:27 AM. © Nerdy Science Blog

Jonathan W. Yewdell published an essay in Nature regarding to how to succeed in science (for biomedical scientists). There are two parts, and I think it’s worthwhile to sit down and read.In part I, Yewdell first stated that there are four facts young scientists need to know:Only minority of Ph.D. is able to become [...]

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Live video chat Sunday May 18 at 3:00 p.m. MT

post from Bad Astronomy Blog on 17 May 2008 10:49:35 AM. © Bad Astronomy Blog

I’ll be doing another live video chat starting at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time (21:00 UT) on Sunday May 18 (barring my dumb dog lacerating herself again). If you look below and see/hear me whining about my camera not working correctly, then you’re good. I urge you to go to the UStream page, though, so you [...]

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The Battle Over PVC

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 17 May 2008 10:32:00 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

While scientists say there is still no hard evidence to suggest danger in PVC, Toys R Us recently joined ranks with Sears and Wal-Mart in planning a phase out products containing polyvinyl chloride. The anti-PVC camp says its goal is the complete elimination of all PVC use, from garden hoses to medi

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Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 17 May 2008 10:32:00 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

High-tech research gets most of the press, but small, incremental improvements are often more significant than research projects that fail to pan out. In the wire and cable industry, these improvements may be a new cable jacket material that's more rugged or that can withstand heat better. Other inc

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Marketing Drugs

post from Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog on 17 May 2008 10:06:00 AM. © Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog

Melody Petersen, author of Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines on Bill Moyer’s Journal:

I actually thought that they were a lot about science. That’s what they tell the public. They are all about science and discovering new drugs. But as I started to follow their daily activities and talk to executives, I learned that really it was marketing that drove them.

According to Petersen, the rewards have been large. America has become the top consumer of prescription drugs in the world, with nearly 65% of the population on physician-prescribed medication. In 2005, Americans spent $250 billion dollars on such drugs. This consumption made pharmaceuticals the most profitable business sector in America from 1995-2002.
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We’ve come to a time when decisions on how to treat a disease have as great a chance of being hatched in a corporate marketing department as by a group of independent doctors working to improve the public’s health.

Unfortunately patients are driven more by marketing than medicine. Much worse though, doctors seem to bend to these patients marketing driven desires. Plus the corrupting influence of money on research and marketing to doctors seems likely a significant reason for the poor performance and high cost of USA health care.

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When did "Christian" become a synonym for "crap"

post from Pharyngula on 17 May 2008 08:42:18 AM. © Pharyngula

One century, you've got Bach, another century, you've got Li'l Markie. Christianity has really gone downhill from its prior status as the font of funding for culture and art and intellectual endeavor to being the being the bottom of the barrel source for kitsch and crap. Case in point: Denyse O'Leary's hideous, horrible, talentless hackery has been nominated for a Canadian Christian Writing Award. Even setting aside the fact that I disagreed vehemently with the content of the book, if you judge it on the quality of the writing, it doesn't deserve recognition, it warrants condemnation — it's probably the worst-written bit of tripe to cross my desk all year long, and that's saying a lot. I've got a few people trying to persuade me to review their Christian apocalyptic fantasy novels, and O'Leary's book is more incoherent than those.

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Atheist Nightmare - Banana

post from Nerdy Science Blog on 17 May 2008 06:13:35 AM. © Nerdy Science Blog

I can’t stop myself watching this video for several times. Here’s a riddle for you guys:What fits in your hand, have non-slip surface, tab on top so the contents won’t squirt out, narrow at the top for easy entry into the mouth as you hold it, and curved towards the face make the whole [...]

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fuck the math just all good,all fast the box,first imagine sky "s the limit the box inside a source of massive energy,but little energy just do a simple ratio and scale as a HUGE but not too much type of energy this energy will regarding quantum t...

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How to Cook Burgers with a Corvette

The guy in the apron and chef's hat is Emil Onzo, of Wilton, New York. What you're looking at here is not an engine fire, but what Emil simply calls a "carbecue." He removed the Corvette's well-used small-block V-8 and instead fitted a full grilling apparatus in the engine bay. He's since switc

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Let The Kids Decide

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