…remember that the following two domains will always point to where I am: http://www.respectfulinsolence.net http://www.respectfulinsolence.com Also remember that, should anything happen, I still have my old Blogspot blog Respectful Insolence, which can be reactivated at a moment’s notice, as I did last year when an attempt at a software upgrade at ScienceBlogs took longer than anticipated. Meanwhile, I continue to dither while Pharyngula goes on strike and Zuska, Mike Dunford, and Grrl…
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“This work seeks to understand young adults’ motives for online gaming and extends previous research concerning social interaction in virtual contexts. The focus of the study is on Counter-Strike and World of Warcraft
Meaningful use before meaningful usability ? The Dept. of HHS today has released the final version of “Meaningful Use” rules on HIT, which can be seen here: Meaningful Use – Final Version Full Text .
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Meaningful Use Final Rule: Have the Administration and ONC Gone Insane on Health IT?
A group of researchers have published a simple word analysis of 300 million tweets (you know, those short, 140 character-maximum status updates from individuals) from Twitter and discovered something amazing — people are happier on the weekends, and before and after work. Yes, that’s right — people are happier when they are not working! It took three researchers from Northeastern University and two from Harvard Medical School to arrive at these stunning conclusions
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U.S. Mood Measured Through Twitter, 2006-2009
As reported yesterday in Above The Law , the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a sex discrimination case filed by a female law partner. The partner, Alyson Kirleis, worked for Dickie McCamey in Pennsylvania since 1988. From the Legal Intelligencer (via Above the Law who got if from The Careerist ): In the suit, Kirleis accused Dickie McCamey of paying female lawyers less than males and alleged she was told by a male partner that a woman with children should relinquish her partnership and work only part-time.
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There’s a noteworthy column in Psychiatric Times, “Normality Is an Endangered Species: Psychiatric Fads and Overdiagnosis,” by Allen Frances, M.D. He was chair of the task force that worked on the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual — DSM-IV — one edition of the “bible of psychiatry.” He is professor emeritus of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine. There’s a lot of common ground between what Dr
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Life Without A Mental Disorder: Is It Possible?
I haven’t done any framing in ages! Wedding Row proved to be a breeze to frame! The frame went together beautifully without giving me any headaches, and the stretching went so smoothly. No tweaking and playing with it for hours on end to get things straight and even. Wedding Row by Bent Creek Frame detail I’ll be giving it to the bride and groom tonight. CD, all the purple netting done now
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Quizás algunos lectores de este blog se pregunten por qué le estamos dedicando bastantes entradas a los resultados que se van a presentar en la conferencia ICHEP 2010 y los que se han presentado ya (hoy ha sido el primer día y el último será el próximo miércoles). En París se está celebrando la 35ª edición del congreso ICHEP (International Conference on High Energy Physics), una conferencia bianual, que reúne en esta ocasión a más de 1000 físicos en el Palacio de Congresos (Palais de Congrès)…
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Qué es el congreso ICHEP 2010 de París y por qué nos interesa en este blog
The following is a guest post by Lloyd who publishes a leading office desk furniture review website. Although you sit for 8 or more hours in your office most days of the week, do you really like your office space and more importantly does it work for you? If the answer is no, then it’s time to change it
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5 Ways To Feng Shui Your Home Office That Will Make You Feel Great
Guest commentary by Tamino If you don’t know much about climate science, or about the details of the controversy over the “hockey stick,” then A. W. Montford’s book The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science might persuade you that not only the hockey stick, but all of modern climate science, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and political power
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The Montford Delusion
This week’s big story in physics is this Science paper by a group out of Austria, on a triple-slit interference effect. This has drawn both the usual news stories and also some complaining about badly-worded news stories. So, what’s the deal
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Quantum Mechanics Is Square: "Ruling Out Multi-Order Interference in Quantum Mechanics"
One of the marvels of Comic-Con is that when a panelist asks the people in the room whether they’d be willing to risk a fatal mechanical failure for the chance to go into space, everyone raised their hands. It’s the kind of place where nerds roam free, geeks can be both predator and prey, and the answer to the question, “How about going to space?” is foreordained. The panel I’m referring to focused on the question of whether private companies are better suited to taking humanity into space, o…
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Comic-Con: Private Space Flight Ain’t the Miracle It’s Cracked up to Be | Science Not Fiction
SUMMARY: Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) was just published and is filled with lots of thought-provoking articles for you to read and enjoy! Be sure to leave comments for each essay’s authors to read and respond to Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power) — Sir Francis Bacon.
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Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) #35 is Published!
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Splendid Scooper, Sarah, Stirs her Ice Cream Base We’re getting frozen at CSR with all of our splendid scoops entries being churned in. Our scooptestants are crafting some tasty ice cream flavors and we can’t wait to share them all with you. Monday, July 26 th , we’ll be announcing the winner – so stay tuned to the blog.
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Just Churned In: Sweet Corn and Cherry Ice Cream & Mo’s Goat Cheese Ice Cream
Today’s cool and damp air reminds us that summer doesn’t last forever. The weather will get chilly again, even cold, and we’ll need heat from a variety of sources
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Now that I'm in my 40s, some of my friends who are married with children are starting to divorce. I've seen firsthand how hard it is for them at home and at work. One friend completely botched a work assignment because she was so emotionally spent.
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When Divorce Affects Your Work Life
Looking at a planetary nebula 6,500 light years away, scientists recognized an old friend: the buckyball. The large, soccer ball-shaped molecule–made from bonding 60 carbon atoms together–was first seen in a lab in 1985. In a paper published today in Science, scientists confirm the first known extraterrestrial existence of the rare carbon balls
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Spitzer Telescope Finds Buckyballs… in Spaaace! | 80beats
Image via Wikipedia The following is my contribution to a collection prepared by the British Library and released today at the Wellcome Trust, called “Driving UK Research. Is copyright a help or a hindrance?” - Press Release – Document[pdf] – which is being released under a CC-BY-NC license.
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Driving UK Research – Is copyright a help or a hindrance?