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Sunday Iconoclasm Blogging
Sunday Iconoclasm BloggingSome irreverent souls have taken to Sunday blogging on a freethinking themes. I choose to Ozymandize* that which we worship the most: our economic system. That plant in the...
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Pfizer Fine in PerspectiveThe odd thing about the Pfizer story is that it is old news. Fierce Pharma href="http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/pfizer-takes-2-3b-bextra-charge/2009-01-26">wrote about...
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Are Randomized Controlled Trials Relevant?
Are Randomized Controlled Trials Relevant?This is from an open-access article in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry: an article featuring a debate about the relevance of randomized, controlled trials...
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Gang Mentality
Gang MentalityI spend a lot of time working with gang kids. One of the amusing things, is to see some of these kids strutting around, feeling like a million bucks, because they are so smart. In...
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The Ghost Mall
The Ghost MallThe world's largest shopping mall boasts some impressive statistics: 7.1 million square feet (659,612 square meters) of leasable space and 890,000 square meters of total floor space;...
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Undercurrent?
Undercurrent?Is there some kind of especially violent undercurrent right now, in the right-wing river of hate? Ed Brayton just...
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Pearl Harbor Day
Pearl Harbor DayThis is a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=41500">high-resolution photo of Pearl Harbor (click to enlarge). When I saw that it had been posted to the NASA...
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Why should the city be a concrete desert?
Why should the city be a concrete desert?Susanne Sternthal, a writer based in Moscow, has published an article about the ecology of stray dogs. The article is in Financial Times, of all places. Why...
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Zen and the Art of Dracaena Growing
Zen and the Art of Dracaena GrowingSometimes I see sad-looking plants on clearance, buy them, and try to heal them. This activity provides me with a gratification that is similar to that which comes...
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Evolution Messed Up?
Evolution Messed Up?James Gunn, the director for the movie href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slither_%282006_film%29">Slither, seems to be enthralled by creepy crawly things. He also has a...
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