Off to the Galapagos

Byadmin November 22, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends, and a great week to the rest of you. I will not be blogging for a bit, because I’ll be vacationing in the Galapagos, with my favorite evolutionary biology books no doubt at my side.

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What Made Our Greatest Surgeon General So Great
Byadmin June 14, 2013

I have been thinking a lot about C Everett Koop lately, ever since his death on February 25 at the ripe old age of 96 and more recently with the announcement that our current Surgeon General, Regina Benjamin, is planning to step down from that post. In particular, I have been pondering what made Koop…

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Can Comics Improve Medical Care?
Byadmin October 28, 2013

Take a look at this wonderful video where a physician and a nurse explain how comic books, what they called “graphic medicine”, can improve medical care. You might also want to check out the website of the graphic medicine collaborative they have pulled together. (Click here to view comments)

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The Only Power Strong Enough to Undermine My Scientific Integrity – Chocolate
Byadmin May 19, 2014

I recently posted several humorous pictures illustrating the risks of assuming that correlation amounts to causation. But now comes along another interesting picture, that practically forces me to abandon scientific rigor and embrace the inevitable conclusion – that chocolate consumption leads to genius: Is everybody on board with my reasoning? (Click here to view comments)

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Daycare Versus Obamacare
Byadmin April 24, 2012

According to a new study, daycare will increase your child’s health, intelligence and social development. But do you think the study is scientifically rigorous enough to justify this conclusion?
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Why People Choose Boring Careers
Byadmin October 7, 2013

Fascinating new research sheds light on why so many people stick with dull jobs over trying something more exciting: They don’t expect to get paid enough to justify going after the more interesting options. Research into “effort aversion“ by Duke University Fuqua School of Business marketing professor Peter Ubel and David Comerford, an assistant professor at Stirling University found that in…

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What Science Can’t Teach Us
Byadmin May 12, 2014

Thanks to science, we are confronted with new discoveries every day. But there are some things that science can’t teach us, and which we need to learn without its help. This point was made marvelously in an essay in the Atlantic monthly by Clancy Martin, who was discussing the increasing number of popular books written by…

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Off to the Galapagos

What Made Our Greatest Surgeon General So Great

Can Comics Improve Medical Care?

The Only Power Strong Enough to Undermine My Scientific Integrity – Chocolate

Daycare Versus Obamacare

Why People Choose Boring Careers

What Science Can’t Teach Us

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