Petra Franklin Lahaie ushers her two young daughters and their girly bikes through a set of heavy bronze doors, greets the 24-hour elevator operator in the Prussian blue uniform, rides up 35 stories past mostly vacant office suites, debarks next to an observation deck and Chinese-themed banquet room, passes through a portal marked “private residence,”… Continue reading A Home in the Pyramid Atop Seattle Tower
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Malpractice Methodology
The traditional way to reform medical malpractice law has been to impose caps on liability — for example, by limiting punitive damages to something like $500,000. A far better strategy would be to provide safe harbor for doctors who follow evidence-based guidelines. Anyone who could demonstrate that he has followed the recommended course for treating… Continue reading Malpractice Methodology
Ozzy Osbourne’s Genome Reveals Some Neandertal Lineage
The one-time front man for heavy metal band Black Sabbath has joined the likes of DNA co-discoverer James Watson and Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates on the short roster of people to have their full genome sequenced and analyzed . [More] From Ozzy Osbourne’s Genome Reveals Some Neandertal Lineage Why am I not surprised?
Reforming Medicare’s Payment System
Three-dimensional radiation costs roughly $10,000. A somewhat newer treatment, I.M.R.T., initially cost $42,000. And an even more recent treatment, proton radiation therapy, costs $50,000. The newer treatments do not seem to be more effective at keeping patients alive than three-dimensional radiation, so under the proposal all three treatments would be reimbursed (after the three-year trial… Continue reading Reforming Medicare’s Payment System
A Far Away Country Of Which We Know Nothing
I’ve been getting a lot of correspondence lately that runs something like this: You’re an idiot. Give me one example in all of history of a country that spent its way out of a depressed economy Ahem. There’s this country — people may not have heard of it — called the United States of America:… Continue reading A Far Away Country Of Which We Know Nothing
MoveOn Member’s Head Stomped By Violent Cowards At Rand Paul Debate
Outside the Conway-Paul debate, a Rand Paul supporter pulled the woman’s blonde wig off and stomped on her head. She was representing the liberal organization MoveOn.org From MoveOn Member’s Head Stomped By Violent Cowards At Rand Paul Debate | Crooks and Liars Gee, don’t they know libertarians are against initiation of force? But I’m sure… Continue reading MoveOn Member’s Head Stomped By Violent Cowards At Rand Paul Debate
Parallel universe breakthrough
“Parallel universes, unknown forms of matter, extra dimensions… These are not the stuff of cheap science fiction but very concrete physics theories that scientists are trying to confirm with the LHC and other experiments.” From CERN scientists eye parallel universe breakthrough – Yahoo! News I bet they peer into the Parallel Universe only to see… Continue reading Parallel universe breakthrough
Cthulhu pot pie?
laughingsquid: Tentacle Pot Pie For Zadi. From laughingsquid: Tentacle Pot Pie For Zadi. Looks like Cthulhu pot pie.
The value of a dollar
For his The Value of a Dollar project, Jonathan Blaustein took photographs of the amount of food he could purchase for a dollar. From The value of a dollar Interesting contrast between cheap food and good food.
Founding Fathers’ papers to be accessible online
The University of Virginia Press is putting the published papers of Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin on a National Archives website that is expected to be accessible to the public in 2012. When complete, the website will allow users to read, browse and search the text of tens of… Continue reading Founding Fathers’ papers to be accessible online