Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Patient confidentiality

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Patient X in Dallas went to a hospital on the 27'th with a fever and was sent home. He's back, with ebola. If I understand ebola c...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Very different values

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We generally try to make sure disagreements don't inflate into violent disputes (despite the revolutionary origin of the country). Edit...
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Friday, September 26, 2014

Distributed doctoring

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UPDATE : Prepositioning medicines won't work very well. They will deteriorate in the heat and humidity (want to bet the bottles won...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

The director of the king

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Solomon wrote "The king's heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes." Of cours...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Stroller changes?

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Back in the days when we used a stroller, we made sure it collapsed. Even the twin stroller (a double-wide, to keep a todler and a baby mor...
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Golf

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Eldest Son had an intriguing idea: imagine playing golf on Perelandra. I wonder if you can emulate that in a water park or a mostly enclos...

The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto

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Rudolph Otto’s The Idea of the Holy begins by suggesting that those who have never experienced anything like this will have no idea what he...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Chutzpah

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was defined as the attitude of the man who, having murdered his parents, threw himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. It could als...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

On reading a newspaper's science column...

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"The child asks for information, and we satiate his curiosity with words. Who does not know how we satisfy ourselves with the name of s...
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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Small Small Thing

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While at my sister's home we watched "Small Small Thing" about a rape of a little girl in Liberia. She isn't the only one...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Moses or Ipanema?

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Her stride is cultivated grace, her hair elegantly coiffed, her skirt cut to swirl above her knees just so, her back slightly arched for bes...
Friday, September 05, 2014

Deadly force and race

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An interesting study on the use of deadly force by police found that participants (an earlier study used policemen) felt more threatened by...
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Magnetic field motions in the Sun

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This article from NASA is worth reading. Our satellites can determine the polarization of light from different parts of the Sun and figure...

Screen insects

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I don't know how many of you remember xroach : an X-windows game that would generate a lot of images of roaches which hid behind your t...
Thursday, September 04, 2014

Slowing down

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My sister asked me to transfer to DVD a video her late husband made 29 years ago, of my eldest two children when we were visiting them in Lo...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Godelian

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"The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only t...
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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Putnam, trust, and flirting

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Everybody else seems to have already read Putnam's paper showing that diversity reduces both out-group and in-group trust. I'm cur...
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Monday, August 18, 2014

When you need a scoop

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Dive right in. Compare and contrast
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Liberian govt vs ebola

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They've established isolation centers and have retrieval squads working. This isn't pretty: the WSJ calls it "A Grim Picture...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Ebola without hope

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People are taking the old traditional approach to epidemics: head for the hills and leave the sick to die. As long as this is true--...
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