Any first year student should be able to tell you: a statistical data set is only as good as the sampling which provides the data. This is why internet polls are stupid; if I were to ask my friendslist to click a tickybox as to whether or not they agreed that using nuclear weapons in Iran was a good thing and what those people jolly well deserved ( Read more... )

Apparently, there's a bit in the March edition of O: The Oprah Magazine with five numbers that you should have on your speed dial. Guess what one of them is?

SFSI. San Francisco Sex Information. My volunteer gig has been noticed by Oprah ( Read more... )

[Paraphrased from my interview with an Extremely Nice Professor at the UW yesterday ( Read more... )

I saw this at Feministe today, about the SF Trans March.

to build connections among ftm, mtf, bayot, crossdressers, sadhin, hijra, transvestites, bantut, drag queens, drag kings, mahu, transsexuals, bakla, travesti, genderqueers, kathoey, two spirit, intersex and those with other labels for themselves and no labels for themselvesThe bolded word ( Read more... )

During the Passover Seder, the "story" of the four sons is told. (If you don't know what this is, go here. The story is pretty much the same as I'd heard for the last multitude of years. Dunno about the commentary though.) Don't ask me why I thought of this (Thank you Alfred Kinsey) but it struck me that the way the four sons react to Passover ( Read more... )

The FDA approved the HPV vaccine!

Man, this makes me want to go out and throw flowers around and dance. My children can be safe from cervical cancer and most genital warts, oh, that is absolutely wonderful. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

Baruch atah Adoshem elohainu melech haolam shecheyanu vikiamanu vehigiyanu lazman hazeh.

( Cut just in case you read this at work. It's political and about the FMA. )

An FDA advisory council unanimously recommended that the HPV vaccine go on the market!Hallelujah ( Read more... )

So, I have been working on this darned carbadox project for two solid months. My big boss would really like this done and done soonest. I have been solving problems, but they haven't actually solved the big problem (inability to get a good integration with constant ion ratios.) [This is on an LC-MS/MS, if you care ( Read more... )