Sponsoring by the pharmaceutical industry can bias the results of drug studies, study suggests

A real, brand new study the results of which were announced on Science Daily.

The results were in the "No Shit, Sherlock" category.

Of course if you consider the amount of monies available for research programs, I would have to admit that ANY study is ( Read more... )

As it figures, as soon as I decide to get cable, PBS has suddenly starting coming in more often. I managed to see nearly all of a Frontline episode I wanted to see called Digital nation.   It was very fascinating.

PBS Digital Nation Frontline site

The premise of this commentary/documentary  is to look at the effect on culture of the amount of digital ( Read more... )

Another night of insomnia so here are some online funnies of Age and Geekdom.   They, and many more,  are also on my Online Funnies LJ Picture Gallery.

Simply click on any image to see it in two different larger sizes.

Samples provided in front of cut for your amusement.


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I've been cruising some sites and thought I'd take time to make a slightly-wow related post-- posts that are wow related, but not game related.

Here are some fun links!

Real Recipes based on WoW
I have had the humorous idea of creating real food named after some of the funny items in WoW (crunchy spider surprise, anyone?) but I am not the only one to ( Read more... )