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A little paranoia for the afternoon
I saw this billboard when I was in a strange neighborhood: What is FreedomFCHS? And then I realized I was near a psychiatric hospital. Talk about targeted advertising. I was reading some of their stuff...
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Martha Stewart – Counter culture Icon???
Martha Stewart is now hip. I don’t really give a damn about that. And if the tatoo’d set thinks she’s cool as an inspiration to craftspeoples, that’s fine. We all get our inspiration where we can. But...
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Most excellent news
Coffee is good for you. Cue up Woody Allen. What does it protect from? Diabetes, chronic liver disease, heart disease and best of all, dementia.
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Screw Ross Douthat telling me and you to have more children
Ross Douthat has an op-ed in the NYT this weekend talking about how the US needs to up its fertility rate. There is so much wrong with this op-ed that it’s hard to know what to focus on. But there are...
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A new backpack/courier bag?
When I got my PhD (sometime in the mid-Eocene), my mother bought me this as a graduation present (Ghurka): I loved it (to death). Needless to say, now that we have arrived in the post-pleistocene...
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How long to wait for a reply on a submitted MS
I know that some of the glamour journals are good at 96 hour triage on manuscripts they don’t want. But what about the next tier of journals? At what point to you email the editor or editorial...
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Holiday Presents and a Small Suggestion
I have mixed feelings about holiday presents. I love giving them. But I can still remember the visceral disquiet one year, when I looked a piles of crumpled colored paper, and stacks of plastic...
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Cultural differences in subdisciplines
What PhysioProffe said about not letting students be corresponding or communicating authors, as well as Drug Monkey’s post about authorship a few weeks back made me think that some of these...
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Where you sit at the (department) dinner table
Where you sit shouldn’t matter one whit. But in the end, as is true for many things that are style and not substance, it can. As part of my department’s leadership team, a thought that with a nice...
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Terema Kasih: You guys are the greatest
Terema Kasih (thank you in Bahasa Malay, it literally means received with love). I’ve had a grand time these last few months blogging with Dr. Isis. As she re-focuses this blog, it’s time for me to...
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