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Linkfest 2017-01-22

Happy New Year! I've taken two weeks off for the birth of my third child, but now I am back at it! Peak conception time by daylight hours I saw the following chart on Twitter, and found it intriguing. Roy Wright was interested enough to write a blog

LinkFest 2016-11-06

This LinkFest has been delayed three weeks. I had better publish it before the election and everything gets falsified! Divided by meaning A great piece on how Americans are divided by their attachments to hearth and home, or the lack thereof. Fascinating to me, since by education and career, I

LinkFest 2016-04-01

April Fool's Edition The CDC is trying to make 86 million Americans sick I've long thought the pre-diabetes thing was a bit foolish. While it is a good thing to be able to quantitate, if you don't understand what you are doing it can

Beat the Reaper Book Review

Another book review that disappeared. I really love the tagline for this review: "Like Scrubs on crack." Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell Little, Brown, and Company, 2009 ISBN 0316032220; $9.99 Every time I look at this book, I think of the song by Blue Öyster Cult,

Hospital Slang

Actually, I rather suspect that doctors are just getting smarter about what they write on charts. The surgeons I know are as crass as ever. Hospital slang.