Heredity
It’s for real. Fun half-and-half photos at the link. [Hat tip: Maetenloch at Ace’s.]
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Happy Indigenous People Day!
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Continue reading →Again with the low-grade fever
I’ve written that it seems that ebola can start with a low-grade fever for a while, and that the criteria for diagnosis should note that fact and not exclude people with other symptoms and risk factors because their fevers haven’t … Continue reading →
First case of ebola transmission in US is a Dallas health care worker…
…who treated Thomas Eric Duncan. I was wondering when the first US transmission would occur. I was hoping against hope it would not occur, but thinking that transmission was almost inevitable. It is of interest that the first person to … Continue reading →
Spambot of the day
What a stuff of un-ambiguity and preserveness of precious know-how concerning unpredicted feelings. Yeah, you said it. Once more, with unpredicted feeling.
Continue reading →The wheels of justice…
…grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine. Another story of a person falsely convicted of murder on flimsy evidence (in this case, testimony about a confession) that should never have been considered credible. What an awful story. Here are some … Continue reading →
We know that Republicans are the stupid party…
But apparently they’ve gotten a tad better at countering the “war on women” this election cycle. Good. My personal observation is that in 2012 the “war on women” caught Republicans flat-footed (what doesn’t?), and it really mattered. Quite a few … Continue reading →
The decline of political rhetorical style
The folks here decided to do an analysis of presidential speeches over time: Using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test””the most well-known reading comprehension algorithm””Vocativ analyzed over 600 presidential speeches, going back to George Washington. We measured syllables along with word and … Continue reading →
On the matter of Duncan’s temperature on his initial ER visit
It was reported by the Dallas hospital that treated Thomas Eric Duncan that his temperature was only 100.1 degrees on his first visit to the ER, and this was part of the reason they didn’t red-flag him at that point. … Continue reading →
Texas voter ID law struck down; Wisconsin’s halted
This is one of the ways in which Democrats in power perpetuate more Democrats in power; the judge deciding this case was appointed by Barack Obama in 2011: Less than a month before Election Day, a federal judge from Corpus … Continue reading →
Did she or didn’t she?
I can answer the question, even if she can’t: she did. My title is a reference to one of the most famous ad campaigns in history:
Continue reading →Spain: it was the nurse’s fault
It doesn’t look good for the Spanish nurse in Madrid who contracted ebola while caring for an infected priest who’d been brought back from Africa. And, in today’s current climate of passing the buck, the Spanish authorities are passing it … Continue reading →