The new method, Mendelian randomization, “is changing the way we think about causality,” Dr. Lauer said.
[see here]
Archive for June, 2009
Quick — tell the philosophers!
Posted in Medical communications, tactless observations, tagged C reactive protein, clinical study design, CRP, heart disease, medical news, Mendelian randomization, so much for statins on 30 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Public abuse of silicone and butterflies
Posted in Art and Craft, tagged art objects, clear silicone, Daniel Wurtzel art, eeeeeek, farm-raised butterflies, not jello, silicone bullets, watch them quiver on 29 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know that Daniel Wurtzel is making a statement here, and I’ll admit that these things are impressive when they catch the light. But the “quivering in the wind” part isn’t value-added for me…. [his work with actual Jell-o is more interesting]
These things were 5-6 feet tall, in groups of three — three with embedded [...]
Miscellaneous
Posted in Food, Gardening, tactless observations, tagged weedwackers, recipe ideas, scotch, honey, celebrity deaths, Farah, Michael, Scarecrow, bioidentical, sobe, soy, timeliness fail, short-temperedness on 25 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1) My special gardening weakness — I cannot seem to get a weedwacker to work for more than 8 minutes before snapping the line.
2) Recent dinner items — coconut spice tofu with mushrooms, sobe noodles with sesame oil, soy, and broccoli; blueberry-rosemary chicken
3) And the 24 hour news cycle catches Entertainment Tonight and Access flat-footed [...]
Here at the Paradise….
Posted in Backstory on 16 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Errr. Some of you will know the song that lyric belongs to. The rest, just move along to the actual text: There is nothing like being one of 5 people in a movie theatre — two giddy couples and distraught projectionist — drinking beer, munching on corn chips and watching a reggae icon sing ‘Get [...]
Special guest bee
Posted in Gardening, My brain on 16 June, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A Eucera bee, courtesy of The Great Sunflower Project. I got to see some of these on sunflowers up North last summer.
For another view, look here, at the Bees of Blandy Experimental Farm
And this is from WikiCommons, via Alvegaspar:
No, you never do know what you’ll get when you stop by this blog, do you…..
Two academic moments
Posted in Art and Craft, Backstory, Musing about Teaching, tactless observations, tagged art, craft, critical theory, critique, Cultural Theory, Drosophila melanogaster, failures, ideology, Rhetoric, steel, Teaching, what students don't realize on 11 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First, a quick excerpt from one of the blogs in the sidebar, Larval Subjects:
However, having witnessed twenty years of critiques of ideology I’m led to wonder what critiques of ideology have ever done to really change anything. The conception of politics as ideology critique seems to largely result among bookish academics that believe it is [...]
Name that institution….
Posted in Backstory, Musing about Teaching, My brain, tactless observations on 9 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or, if you prefer, name any industry or business where the following quote wouldn’t be relevant today:
“The loyalty of the institution to its people, and vice versa, isn’t really there anymore — it’s a different animal from what a lot of us were used to. It’s much more of a business now and less of [...]
Neil Patrick Harris
Posted in Filking, tactless observations, tagged Broadway, Neil Patrick Harris, silliness, Tony Awards, Tonys on 7 June, 2009 | 6 Comments »
…please do the Tonys again next year!
Kthxbye
[For those of you who missed the closing credits and Neil's song, see it here.]
And the fishies say “Yay!”
Posted in Elsinore, Gardening, tactless observations on 6 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I don’t want to talk about it. [squish]
