Golf Mania
I saw an email asking if people wanted to attend a conference being organised by the American College of Physicians. When I checked the location, I decided to count how many golf courses were...
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Mitochondria Gone Wild
We had a clinical presentation today from Richard Hass, a mitochondrial disease expert with UCSD’s Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center. It was tough. He presented case after case of doomed little children who basically...
No Last Words
WMD (Weapon of Mime Destruction) Marcel Marceau is dead. No last words, apparently. This will have to do.
Highest Bidder Wins
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of...
Infertile Crescent
That on the two parallel banks of the Tigris and of the Euphrates bad weeds should grow, that no one should set out on the road, that no one should seek out the highway,...
Never Being Kissed
Villagers don’t kiss anymore in a corner of Democratic Republic of Congo hit by the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus.People began falling ill in April in Kampungu, Western Kasai province, centre of an...
Shangri-Lame
Few Tibetans would welcome a return of the corrupt aristocratic clans that fled with [the Dalai Lama] in 1959 and that comprise the bulk of his advisers. Many Tibetan farmers, for example, have no...
Let Them Eat Pelagibacter
We are running out of fish to eat, so apparently we will have to begin harvesting other oceanic biomass sources. I suggest going right to the source and figuring out how to turn Pelagibacter...
Yippee Ki Yay Puppetfucker
After Die Hard, the Puppet Show, can Point Break, the Claymation be far behind? More here.