One rule I learnt from my father is this: “Whenever you see something, that is truly sensible and does its job well, grab it and lay down a drawerful of spares. Nothing, that is not glitzy dysfunctional junk, has a chance of surviving in the market as it is.”
The latest proof of this rule is the announcement last June of the death of the Skiff Reader. Read the rest of this entry »
There was a commentary to Clément in science’s online magazine.
Rak and Wang are an example for a coupled and nonlinear connection between diet and symptoms. Dietary treatment based on simple linear assumptions is bound to fail.
Here’s the link to this week’s complete list.
At first glance Walton looks just too good to be true and my first assumption was, this would turn out to be a case of a longitudinal study changing what it tries to observe (Zwane, pnas 108 (2011), 1821). Closely looking at the methods I could find nothing to fault them though, and it does indeed seem to be valid. Read the rest of this entry »
In den letzten Jahren hatte sich das Sprachprogramm WDR Radio 5 erfolgreich um Sachlichkeit und Seriosität bemüht. Es scheint als sähen nach der letzten Landtagswahl die alten, der SED verpflichteten Sozialistenkader wieder Oberwasser und ließen den Jahrzehnte bewährten, tendenziösen Rotfunk wieder auferstehen. Zwei Beispiele fielen mir besonders auf, beide ausgezeichnet durch Innumerik und Gleichmacherei und auf meiner Website habe ich sie kommentiert.
Roebroeks contradicts the hypothesis (Ragir 2000, Laden 2005, Wrangham 1999) that the release of nutrients enabled by cooking was important for the hominid development very early on.
Brumfiel and Ferguson talk sense about Japan’s nuclear problems. N. B: Just now the news announced that the Japanese political “elite’s” conclusion was to stop building new and safe plants and prolong the planned lifetimes of the much inferior old ones. I’m all for social participation of the mentally retarded, but does it have to be in parliaments and government?
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By Abdulateef Al-Mulhim
I have been exposed to Palestinians since I was in first grade in Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia They were my favorite teachers. They were the most dedicated and the most intelligent among all my instructors, from elementary to high school.
When I was attending New York-based SUNY Maritime college (1975-1979), I read a lot of books about Palestinians, Arabs and the Israelis. I have read every article about the many chances the Palestinians had and missed to solve their problem, Read the rest of this entry »
Nothing this week that I feel compelled to add my personal comments to. I refer you to the abstracts in the list.
Here’s the link to this week’s complete list.
By Khaled Abu Toameh
As Israel Apartheid Week continues, a Palestinian boy was left to die at Lebanese hospital because father couldn’t afford treatment.
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This has been a quiet week. I have mainly been reading up on cultural evolution and group selection.
Here’s the link to this week’s complete list.
A gigantic natural disaster, the like of which has not been seen there in over a thousand years, has hit Japan last Friday. A magnitude 9.0 earthquake shortly followed by a massive tsunami has left 10 000 victims dead and millions homeless and without water. No country in the world Read the rest of this entry »
