Infant porn? Never thought I'd say this, but some people just need to be shot.

Cnn has a great article about the Correlation between confidence and competency in math. It seems students from other countries who outscore American students in math also tend to be less confident. Funny how the story about math fails to differentiate between a correlation and cause/effect as well as living conditions etc., and assumes confidence ( Read more... )

In an attempt to memorize random facts about bacteria and their classification, I finally sought advice from Gene Roddenberry. Below is one of several stories I wrote yesterday, chock-full of keywords which trigger phonetically similar medical terms in my brain. So yes, it's stupid, but it's so stupid that I can recite all the anaerobic bacilli in ( Read more... )

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When I was little, I defined diseases by "what hurts", also known as "clinical symptoms". When I first heard of AIDS, a word more scary than any swear word (and spoken in a whisper), I asked my grandmother (the doctor) what hurts when you have AIDS. Her answer-everything hurts, a description so simplistic and yet so amazingly accurate. This lead me ( Read more... )

I was at a video rental place (yes, I'm old-fashioned that way), in what is considered one of the safer parts of the actual city, the gayborhood. The gaybourhood is awesome, simply awesome. I love all the people, and there was a pretty big OutFest today spanning several blocks. The overarching theme was Gay Pride, but it was basically just another ( Read more... )

I. Dropped by my school's Fall Fling. Found it rather fitting that they played "White and Nerdy". II. Went to the Residency Fair with a few friends. While they stood around chatting and generally taking it easy (one even tried to pick up a resident), I dutifully went around and ended up with 8 pounds of brochures. Felt lame. III. Stood up a friend ( Read more... )

I don't know why, but for some reason I was watching CNN instead of wrecking my brains trying to memorize nonsensical drug names. So I guess you've heard that Anna Nicole Smith's son died. While that in itself is not interesting, what is interesting is the pathologist's testimony on Larry King. What I thought was the most interesting part was how ( Read more... )

What's the least amount of money researchers would have to pay to to eat stool filtrate?

No, this isn't preliminary research for a project I thought up (although that would be cool, but cruel and unusual). This actually happened.

So our syllabus in a very carefully worded way told us that there is some evidence that HIV-1 was transmitted to humans by intercourse. Not the verbal kind. I've heard that before, but for some reason today I got really pissed off when I read it. Let the fuckers die! I have pretty liberal views on sex, but I draw the line at bestiality (and ( Read more... )