Month: November 2013

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What a surprise that the herbal supplement/alternative medicine industry is filled with hucksters, scam artists, and grifters, the likes of which American medicine hasn’t seen since the days of patent medicine before the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration in 1906 For the study, the researchers selected popular medicinal herbs, and then randomly bought […]

Dengue Fever

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On November 5, 2013

So I hear Dengue Fever is coming to my town and I hope it is this: Unfortunately, it is this: This past summer, Aedes aegypti—the invasive African mosquito best known for carrying the potentially de

This scathing review confirms all my priors about this project. Perhaps I’m being unreasonable, but I’m equal parts depressed and enraged by this book’s existence. I don’t know who constitutes “The Wodehouse Estate” (he had no children) but they ought to resign immediately.  My first impulse was to call Faulks a string of glorious Wodehouseian […]

Free books!

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On November 5, 2013

For a very limited time only, you can download sample chapters from Tower of the Hand: Hymn for Spring, a book about Game of Thrones featuring some very familiar names.

Tuesday Linkage

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In Robert Farley
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On November 5, 2013
Some early Tuesday links… Precision Strike: An Evolution. Not fully convinced by the pro-schmoozing case… Reading the original post Saideman refers to just makes me feel ill. Baseball with a 16 game season. Survive the next nuclear apocalypse by moving off the West Coast… Just reading a description of Zero Charisma leaves me feeling panicky. […]

Genius

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On November 5, 2013

A “Colbert Report” staffer has created a twitter bot that inserts Fox News personalities’ names into Rotten Tomato user reviews. It is genius. Hannity plays the sodding little spiv w

Suicides and Plant Closures

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In General
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On November 4, 2013
Reuters has an interesting piece on how Volkswagen’s previous attempt to operate a union factory in the U.S. failed and how this relates to its attempts to institute a German-like workers’ council through the United Auto Workers. One major challenge I think this attempt faces going forward is the strong hostility toward organized labor by […]
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