August 2008
15 posts
“Under constant surveillance the could-be-VP is deflecting questions about his...”
– Hotline On Call: It Takes A Bulldog
(Ahahaha dear God I hope this man is VP.)
Hypercorrection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Apocryphally, Winston Churchill is said to have replied to a hypercorrective memo with the phrase “This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put” or a similar construction.[3] This is an example of hypercorrection used as parody: Churchill went beyond creating a grammatically correct sentence to mock the elaborate refusal to end a clause in a preposition (or...
Fatal Homotransplated Melanoma: A Case Report →
Woman has advanced metastatic cancer. Doctors, because they have shit for brains, transplant a section of her tumor into her “well-informed” 80-year-old mother’s rectal muscle saying “it might kill you, but probably nothing will happen”. The tumor kills the daughter the next day. Three weeks later, the mother complains that her butt feels weird, doctors say...
twistori →
Find out what people on twitter love, hate, think, believe, wish, feel. Has a strange PostSecret vibe. Would love to see this projected on a wall somewhere in a workspace.
I live in georegia but i dont see rusia no where... →
Cell : A Brief History of the Hypothesis →
When one turns to basic biology, the issue is straightforward. Here, the scientist must ask whether verification or falsification is being sought. If the scientist concludes from a result that a similar result will occur, or that the data will establish a rule for how things work, then the project is inductive. If the experimental design is inductive, then the Critical Rationalist framework is...
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the... →
In short, the more we learn about biology, the further we find ourselves from a model that can explain it. There is now a better way. Petabytes allow us to say: “Correlation is enough.” We can stop looking for models. We can analyze the data without hypotheses about what it might show. We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever seen and let...
Molecules | Sunset Lake Software →
Ahahahaha. RasMol-look-alike for your iPhone.
JAMA -- Commercial Features of Placebo and... →
Ahahahahahaha. I love this study so, so much, for everything it says about human nature:
Cheaper placebos are less effective.
High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show... →
Q: How fast can climate change happen?
A: Faster than you want it to.
Photoswitching of Basicity →
Shine UV light on it, it becomes alkaline. Shine blue light on it, it reverts to neutral. This is so badass.
“Oh, so it actually popped? Yeah, I bet that was relaxing.
(beat)
Since it...”
– Guy at Cambridge Bicycle. (It got me out of bed this morning, at least.)
Even better than vertical farms | Energy costs,... →
“As energy costs rise, supply chains go local.”
“A Healthy People 2010 national health objective (no. 25-11) is to increase to...”
– Trends in HIV- and STD-Related Risk Behaviors Among High School Students —- United States, 1991—2007
