The Late Enlightenment

We're still in the Enlightenment, only now reason has shown us that we are not reasonable - and a more empirical study of man helps us remember the point of the whole program

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Other Primates Have Developed Other Forms of Political Satire

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Read about them here , hat tip Tyler at Marginal Rev. On the whole I prefer Jon Stewart, but then again I'm human.

Friday, July 9, 2010

One Way to Tell Your Workplace Has a Toxic Environment

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I consulted at a number of biotech companies in my pre-med-school life and I was fortunate that most of them were great places to work with ...

Reporting Live from the Oakland Riots

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If you're unfamiliar with the New Year's Eve police shooting of Oscar Grant in Oakland and the verdict which just came out yesterday...

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Interesting Timing on Wikipedia Down-Time

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The 2009 Urumqi Riots are selected as the cover article for today, and suddenly people are having trouble getting to Wikipedia. Touchy Han...

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Do Small Biotechs Really Produce More AND BETTER Drug Candidates?

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...and if so, why? This is a crucial question for the U.S. economy since ( until recently anyway ) pharmaceuticals were one area where the...

How Do We Measure "Neighborhood" Chilling Effects?

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Mohamed Naguib at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has a paper in Anesthesia and Analgesia about a synthetic cannabinoid that has some of the be...

Friday, July 2, 2010

Sun Yat-Sen and the Enlightenment

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I was confused to find universities in mainland China named after Sun, since I'd always associated him with the KMT and therefore the go...

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