Sunday, December 29, 2013

Could there be mental clinics too? Nah.

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A little discussion over at AVI's got me wondering: what would the mental health equivalent of a clinic be? I like "what if...

Review problem

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No doubt it proves I'm déclassé, but I enjoy Dave Barry's year in review columns. I like running into lines like: "Also step...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Suffering and union

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One time her saddle slipped, and she found herself head down under the belly of a donkey as she crossed a stream. Complaining to the Lord of...
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Wii conductor

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Suppose you recorded an orchestra, carefully separating the instrument classes: brasses, strings, etc., and then used a Wii (together with ...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Computer/RFID implants

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With the prospect of instrumenting people with electronic implants or tattoos , the usual suspects emerge to extol the prospect of unlocking...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Puck's voice

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The Met broadcast Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream yesterday. Puck never does sound quite right to me--nor Ariel. They sound too ...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

John Birch

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If you don't read the Friday history posts over at ChicagoBoyz you're missing some fun. Trent has been doing a series on WWII-in-th...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Decline of writing?

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At Forbes Leef complains the K-12 fails to teach reading/writing very well, and universities don't do it at all. I have no reason to b...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Remakes

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Freely stealing material: An unfortunate man broke the law and went to prison. He was feeling very scared his first night alone in his cell...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Ouch

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I began using the arm too soon. There seems to be a little conflict between acquiring range of motion and healing. Or something. So Young...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

"Intense world"

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The idea that some autistic behavior is due to hypersensitivity is a little older than the story suggests. Youngest Daughter had "Aud...

Lyric meanings then and now

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At the semester's end recital, a young fellow without quite enough breath support sang "For the Longest Time." I didn't ...
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Nyarlathotep

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Lovecraft would have enjoyed oobleck in space .
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Who you know

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Of the stories I've read about the sign-language interpreter at the funeral, nobody seems to have touched on what looks like the obvious...
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Friday, December 13, 2013

Protein origami master?

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This story puzzles me. Allegedly the protein Hsp90 keeps other proteins from mis-folding even when there are minor defects in the protein ...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Blinders

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Somebody was playing "Cross of Gold" and I got to thinking about Bryan. Some things don't seem to change much. Faced with ...

Healthy eating

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The Mediterranean diet is all the rage these days, and it doesn't look too bad--though I'm more of a fish in moderation sort. Beans...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

"Does not commute"

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I sometimes talk about science and models of reality. The math may be as precise as you like, but if the application of it isn't right...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Hard problems

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The headline says "Researchers Reveal How an Expanding Universe Can Emerge Without a “Big Bang”" . The team figured a way of havi...
Monday, December 09, 2013

Gaming on company time

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And getting paid for it . The NSA (and apparently other agencies) found that persons of possible interest (e.g. embassy drivers) played th...
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