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In today’s New York Times, a wonderful piece – the cool profession of the future: statistician. My mathematician friends rejoice!
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Does the summer heat have your liquid helium-cooled superconductivity in a quench? That’s nothing compared to the current state of the Large Hadron Collider.
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It may seem that the doctors of New York today are a far cry from the old-fashioned country doctors of mid-century Middle America. Or are they? Stephanie Harnett examines the "patient centered" movement in health care, and catches up with Dr. Stanley Reiser to find out if technology alone can guarantee better health care.
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I have a hunch that one reason physicians hesitate to think about communication as a learned skill is that they’ve been ‘taught’ mostly by being shamed. For example, oncologists cite ‘traumatic experiences’ as more influential in learning communication than any other kind of educational experience—more powerful than role models, workshops, lectures, you name it. What the evidence shows is that osmosis is not enough; experience alone does not result in improvement.
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The Child Victims Act is getting another shot in the New York legislature, and yesterday Assemblywoman Markey (D-Queens) introduced the bill to a Democratic house for the first time. Governor Patterson is also behind this bill, giving it a good shot at passing. Justice Denied author Marci Hamilton was there to testify. From the New […]
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The NYT column Proof is about alcohol and society, and on the 20th, former bartender Brian McDonald poured a literary concoction of drunken writers and poets, Under the Literary Influence. For McDonald, the literature is as addictive as the drink that inspired it. ‘But this is how addictions begin, subtly and then suddenly. Soon I […]
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…kill him. Today’s Science Times devotes itself to all things Darwin. His 200th birthday is 2 days away! My personal favorite, Carl Safina’s essay entitled Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live takes a stab at bursting the bubble of the cult of Darwin. ‘We don’t call astronomy Copernicism, nor gravity Newtonism. “Darwinism” implies […]
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Poe turns 200 today, and several Poe cities are throwing parties. This wasn’t necessarily the case back at the first 100-mark. I found an article from December 1908 decrying the lack of planned celebrations. New York Times, December 12, 1908, Saturday Section: REVIEW OF BOOKS, Page BR772 CORRESPONDENT Call attention to the fact that the […]
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