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CHOOSING LAPAROSCOPY
A KIDNEY HAS TO GO My brother-in-law's still a handsome guy in his mid seventies. He's fiercely loyal to my sister and his kids, a "drivin' fool" who runs his magnificent RV across country at the drop of a beanie, and he's the "go to guy" in the family when it comes to automotive questions. But for several years, he's been battling cancers [...]
Teen Angst: Cure For Acne? Cure For Backpacks?
YOUNG RESEARCHER WITH ACNE CURE We were once beautiful. Even Fink. Once, we were healthy. supple and unblemished. Except for the nasty zits which would lie dormant until a few days before something important like a first date, a prom, or a bar mitzvah when they would BURST into glorious Technicolor blotches, humiliating and depressing [...]
Google’s Evil Meter
GOOGLE'S NEW INDICATOR Have you been watching the ins and outs, ups and downs, backs and forths of Google/China? If you have, you know that Google's modest experiment in self-censorship's resulted in a sour magnesium taste for the "Do no harm" guys who don't like all the ropes 'n chains 'n blindfolds that seem to be the cost of doing business [...]
Harvard, Ice Cream, and Quantum Mechanics
MY PUBLIC A long, long time ago, Joel, Doug, and MISTER ScienceAintSoBad were in line for an ice cream cone in Harvard Square. I can't remember, exactly, why, but Joel said (not for the first time) that "People are morons." Mister (not at that time) ScienceAintSoBad sturdily defended you. "Not all of them." "That's what YOU think. [...]
8 Year Old Inventor Tackles Two HUGE Problems
MISTER ScienceAintSoBad brings up the same tired old names in science and engineering a lot - Newton, Einstein, Kepler, Planck, Jobs (That's Steve, not "jobs, jobs, jobs") and so on. Today, however, I would like to introduce a fresh face - a rising star in engineering, known as the Redlands Rascal, who, only yesterday sent [...]
Men Have (Small) Consciences
The image is mine (not a self portrait) . By the way, I don't steal images from others. I wouldn't be able to handle the guilt. Psychology: Guilt. Hold onto your wig because this is a real toupee blaster. According to an article in the Spanish Journal of Psychology, men feel less guilt than women. An [...]
Stick Figures Have Lives Too
A follow up to my recent article on comic books as literature: Randall Munroe studied physics at Christopher Newport University and has worked for NASA. He also writes a sparse but very funny "webcomic" with sardonic observations on life as lived in the [...]
Comic Books As Literature
By the time I hit kindergarten, I was a reader. I wanna think it's cause I had a brain but, thinking back on it, my primer consisted of a small collection of comic books which my Mom (and other adults in my life) helped me to figure out. The process was kinda informal. I would point and ask my Mom what was [...]
CAN STRESS CAUSE CANCER?
Oncology: The Role Of Stress Robert's amazing. He's a good guy. Well informed and smart, good looking, full of energy, kind hearted, and ambitious. And, believe it or not, he's the guy who picks up our refuse every week in his antiseptically clean truck. And he's bonded with our pink nosed cockapoo, [...]
Cataracts, Artificial Joints, Heart Attacks, Self-delusion, And Detecting Life
Photography by me SCIENCE AIN'T SO BAD RATINGS (NEW) I write about announcements, discoveries, and studies. Since the point of this blog is science, and since the point of science is to weigh evidence and reach conclusions, I've introduced a ScienceAin'tSoBadRating which accompanies each of the studies. I'm NOT trying to tell you what [...]
