Fresh out of college, I landed a job writing one-page sell sheets for a marketing company for $50 each. On a rare excellent day, I might do as many as two of these.

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How to NOT Get Paid to Write Online (And Make Money Doing It)

We have had a flurry of clients recently who, in anticipation of their listing “coming out” party, have recognized the need to do a little preparatory sprucing up. And one of the most frequent questions we get from selling clients is, “What things should I do to maximize my sale price?” Good question, that one. After

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Making an example of myself: What matters when preparing your home for sale.

FabJobs, an award-winning indie publisher of job guides, is seeking a virtual editorial assistant to begin work in mid-September.

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Work-at-Home: Virtual Editorial Assistant Needed at FabJobs

Sorry, but this post is nothing but shameless self-promotion! My first short feature article was published in Scientific American today, which discusses the neurobiology of the father-child bond.  Give it a read! Last May, I took a trip to San Diego for my brother-in-law’s graduation from college, and to meet his 4-month old son, Landon, for the first time. Throughout the weekend, I couldn’t suppress my inner science nerd, and often found myself probing my nephew’s foot reflexes.

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My Scientific American Story on the Father-Child Bond

Swans on Tea » Politics and the Star Trek Effect “There are a couple of episodes of Star Trek that I can recall having some fundamental physics failures, which would lead one to believe that in the Star Trek universe, one cannot do an integral over time. The episodes that come to mind (and it’s been a while, so I may have some details wrong) are The Paradise Syndrome from ToS, and Déjà Q fom TNG. In both episodes, the Enterprise needs to transfer some energy a…

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Time was when I’d fill each minute with sixty seconds’ distance run, but increasing age and infirmity have forced me to reconsider the virtues of doing nothing. This weekend past has been an ideal opportunity to put that into practice. Still sweltering from a week in London at the International Palaeontological Congress, a couple of whose many highlights I have already discussed, and before I jet train off to Paris tomorrow to the European Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting, I felt an…

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Busy Doing Nothing

This is embarrassing. In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Brian Berman from the University of Maryland argues why acupuncture should be recommended for patients with lower back pain. In the very same article he and his colleagues explain that the evidence shows that there is no difference between real acupuncture and sham acupuncture

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Acupuncture infiltrates the University of Maryland and NEJM

Medtronic MiniMed has recently released a new educational game for kids and young adults that takes them through an educational tour to learn how to deal with foods when you have diabetes. A rep for the company tells Medgadget: Called Carb Counting with Lenny, it’s offered for free download on the Apple iTunes App Store for the iPhone, iTouch and iPad.

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Kids With Diabetes Can “Count Carbs With Lenny”

Here’s how I improved my SERP ranking for my newest niche site from Google’s page 7 to page 3 in 18 hours. As in all my new micro niche adsense sites , the process I follow is pretty routine since I’ve now created 16 websites. A quick summary of what I do for each new site is this: 1

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How I Moved SERP Ranking 40 Positions In 18 Hrs

Last week, the anti-science crowd were touting a couple of statisticians who had launched a slashing cross-check on a small portion of the scientific research supporting  our scientific understanding that current warming is very likely unprecedented in the last thousand years. As I discussed here, the McShane and Wyner analysis actually produced a Hockey Stick — and even as the climate science community ducked the blow, the Medieval Warm Period got hit in the head (see also Deltoid, who spruc…

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I went to a statistician fight and a hockey stick broke out – Part 2, DeepClimate throws McShane and Wyner into the penalty box: "This is a…

Having already become a ubiquitous part of our mobile-centric daily lives, wireless technologies are now poised to slip inside our bodies. Researchers and companies around the world are designing the next generation of biosensors—implantable microchip-like devices that can monitor a patient’s health and ping doctors on their smartphones or computers is something is amiss

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WiFi Medicine: Implantable Biosensors That Could E-mail Your Doctor | Science Not Fiction

First, in Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World, it was a T-Rex rampaging through downtown San Diego munching on house pets. Now aliens have stealthily invaded the San Diego Air & Space Museum. This particular invasion, however, was invited–the Air & Space Museum is hosting the Science of Aliens traveling exhibit: a fun mix of science and science fiction

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First Dinosaurs, Now Aliens Invade San Diego! | Science Not Fiction

This past week I received notice that I was again selected by my peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America ® 2011 in the field of “Health Care Law”.

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FSB: Best Lawyers in America 2011

I received an email a few days ago from Guillaume Chapron of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet) asking me to promote his ‘Biodiversity 100‘ campaign on ConservationBytes.com. I think it’s an interesting initiative, and so I’ll gladly spread the word. Teaming up with George Monbiot of The Guardian, the Biodiversity 100 campaign seeks to encourage scientists and others to compile a list of 100 tasks that G20 governments should undertake to prove thei…

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100 actions to slow biodiversity loss

oxidizing indigo on the grass indigo dipping squishing frozen chokecherries to release their colour pre-mordanted fabrics in chokecherry colours. This past week our youngest processed the chokecherries she picked at the cottage, and then did a bunch of indigo dyeing for a quilt she is making. She has so much energy, is so eager to learn and practice, it seems that she has caught the art bug and I am happy for her

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Human beings are the peak of evolution, right? Our advanced brains allow us to poke one another on Facebook, send rockets to the moon, and order complex drinks at Starbucks

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You Fall in Love Because Your Brain is a Jellyfish, Lizard, and Mouse Ice Cream Cone | Science Not Fiction

There’s a very interesting program going on at the KITP discussing recent work of mathematical interest on 4d supersymmetric gauge theories (N=2 and N=4). These include various connections of 4d gauge theory to geometric Langlands uncovered by Witten and collaborators a few years ago, as well as last year’s conjecture by Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa of a relation between 4d gauge theory and 2d Liouville conformal field theory. In his introductory talk, Edward Frenkel discusses the possibility o…

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Geometric Langlands at the KITP

Mark Senak, a pharmaceutical social media advocate and the author of the EyeonFDA blog, today reported that the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche published on its website a document entitled Social Media Principles. The document outlines Roche’s rules and regulations guiding the company’s use and commitment to social media

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Roche Publicly Affirms Its Commitment to Social Media

I came across some questions this morning regarding how to sell physical products as an affiliate. They were the result of a conversation we had on Twitter if I remember correctly.

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Promoting Physical Products As An Affiliate

The LA Times has taken upon itself to rate school teachers in Los Angeles. To do this, the LA Times has adopted the ‘value-added’ approach (italics mine): Value-added analysis offers a rigorous approach. In essence, a student’s past performance on tests is used to project his or her future results

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Some Concerns About the LA Times’ Attempt at Teacher Evaluation