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Archive for September, 2010
September 30th, 2010
Category: Health and Medicine
In the past few days, I have been in various medical-scientific meetings focused on how to tackle serious health problems. In all of these meetings were brilliant, powerhouse women scientists and clinicians. 50 years ago, almost none of these women would have been physicians, public health professionals or professors. The jobs for which many women [...]
September 30th, 2010
Category: Foreign Policy
Few people seem able to resist guessing which nations will dominate the future, and Business Insider has just published an unusually bad article of that sort. Interesting to learn that the role of our ally Brazil is to follow our orders, but more importantly this article doesn’t mention the importance of stable and effective governance. [...]
September 30th, 2010
Category: Africa, Democrats in Congress, The Dysfunctional Senate, Watching Conservatives, Wretched excess
Jim DeMint thinks it’s so critical that you know how important he is that he doesn’t mind if a few thousand folks in Africa die over it.
September 30th, 2010
Category: Economics, Science and its methods
Daniel Kahneman reinvented and confirmed Bacon on cognitive bias.
September 30th, 2010
Category: Drug Policy
I have been getting press calls every day about Proposition 19, a distinct subset of which ultimately result in an article that presents each side’s argument in enough detail for readers to make a judgment. Paul Rogers did a nice job capturing some key issues in this debate I had with Joe McNamara so I [...]
September 29th, 2010
Category: Health and Medicine, Uncategorized
This site has often lamented that fresh veggies are costly and inconvenient compared to fast food. Matt Yglesias has the right response: snobbery aside, there’s nothing wrong with frozen.
September 29th, 2010
Category: Sports
Improvised soccer balls provide humbling reminder of the resilience and ingenuity of millions of people.
September 28th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Jim DeMint just handed us a gift by threatening to block all legislation until adjournment. Harry Reid’s counter is obvious: refuse to adjourn until the people’s business gets done.