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Cognitive approach to sleep therapy improves depression management.

Posted on November 24, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Easy to teach and learn, takes discipline to apply. After decades of neglect sleep gets attention.

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Financing rooftop solar arrays through securitization.

Posted on November 24, 2013 by jgordon

Link. In MN we get hail. Sapphire panels?

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Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi

Posted on November 24, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Like BASIC on early PC. Mathematica is $$, so bit odd.

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Entertaining review of encryption and randimness.

Posted on November 24, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Not new, but well done.

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One man’s story of falling all the way down.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Life is a rough game.

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LEDs can’t be used like 60W bulbs — they have severe cooling issues

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. They produce less heat than incandescents, but they can’t handle it.

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Gruber, like me, was caught out by Apple’s confusing iCloud photo stream tech note.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. There’s no real change. Maybe in 2014. Grrrr.

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Wonderful rant on audiophiles, pseudo-science and “Engineer’s Disease”

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. ED is real at least.

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Boehner Fails to Fail on Obamacare

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. He got his plan. Humiliation.

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Genre: female dinosaur porn.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Narrowcasting income in the post-industrial economy.

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The other R word: redistribution. ACA edition.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. R is also for Risk pool.

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UK “domestic slavery” case is definitely weird.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Coercion of some sort. What sort is the question.

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NYT article on recreational use of testostetone gel doesn’t mention this is anabolic steroid.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Roids, as in baseball. Does NYT not know this?

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MN passes WI on the left.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Unfair, MN has long been richer, more educated.

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ACA great news for startups.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Esp good for involuntary entrepreneurs age 50-67.

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Weighing the Risks of Going Without Health Insurance.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Avoid Avoid skiing, mountain biking, alcohol..,

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Anthera violates rules on drug trial disclosure.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Do they exist to prevent disclosure when a trial fails?

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The Oral Microbiome and periodontitis

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. 2011. Kissing my wife hasn’t given me her gingivitis resistance.

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Wonkblog on why Deborah Sontag’s buprenorphine was journalistic malpractice.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I thought psychiatry and pain medicine were tough, but Addiction Medicine may be the hardest of all.

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Wonderful review of recent research on distribution of prime numbers.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Mathematicians working in teams and individually – and one Subway employees leap to fame. (Store needs a plaque.)

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1973 vs. 2013: Stagflation vs Stagbubbilation

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. History never repeats.

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Healthcare.gov – now compared to Bay of Pigs.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Kennedy overload continues, but the leadership failures are similar.

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NYT article on female “sexual competition” and norm-enforcement …

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Would be interesting to extend study to norm enforcement in social networks.

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False accusation of cyber-bullying by “outraged” DA.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Florida doesn’t protect juveniles.

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Healthcare.gov report: knives out for Sebelius.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. She is sooo gone, the top of CMS needs to go too.

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Deflation continues: PPI drops.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Taxing savings would be popular :-).

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Bargain: bailout of GM cost 10 billion in end.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. It worked.

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Europe makes US look good.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Best of the bad is faint praise.

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Conservative Alternative to Obamacare.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Funny. GOP would not do this in a billion years.

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Acer looks hopeless.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. iPhone was the end.

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Whitewater times: S&P 2000 vs 2013.

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. MCI was big in 2000. Free money transforming corporate landscape.

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Pre-Snowden NSA dreams: how much have they really stopped?

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Tea Party doesn’t mind.

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Texas Education Board Stupidity may be managed.

Posted on November 22, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Not as bad as one might expect, at least by Texas standards.

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“QE is likely going to be around for a while, just as a matter of mathematical necessity.”

Posted on November 22, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Peter pays Paul.

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Google eliminating alternative SMS clients for Google Voice.

Posted on November 22, 2013 by jgordon

Link. GV Mobile+ is one. Infinite SMS is already gone.

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Tea Party senses that McConnell wanted filibuster to fall so he could get things done.

Posted on November 22, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I assume McConnell couldn’t stop Reid, but I think TP is right he didn’t want to.

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China moves up the value chain in the burgeoning surveillance state market.

Posted on November 22, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Fortunately the US is very competitive in this area.

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Claim: Safari better than Chrome.

Posted on November 22, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Except Chrome runs on Windows too — and I rely on Chrome’s profile switch. I can’t go back.

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Terpstra on app.net broadcast: because RSS is going away?

Posted on November 22, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I’m a fan of the app.net dev team, but I don’t get Broadcast.

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Fallows on busting the filibuster: Finally!

Posted on November 22, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Elections have consequences, and if the Tea Party wins we deserve what they will do. We need a working government.

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Charlie Stross free short: A Bird in Hand.

Posted on November 22, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I liked his comp sci model for genome.

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Five kinds of boredom.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I’ve only ever felt "Reactant boredom", but I guess I have a narrow range.

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What country is this? “… engages in serial, self-inflicted economic upheaval”

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Argentina actually, but you were thinking US weren’t you?

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In Our Time does Pocahontas – who has a connection to Shakespear’s The Tempest

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. "Over 100,000 people claim descent from Pocahontas through the child she had with Rolfe"

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Counting sheep for a living.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. 1,2,30,60,100, oh heck. 500.

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Frederick Sanger: The father of genomics. Obit.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Rare thing: an apparently modest Nobelist.

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Nanotech assemblers moving molecules.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Drexler laughing now.

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GOP to devote all energy to fighting ACA.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Operation Red Cape is working.

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Kristof “rehoming” allegations are damned serious.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. We need real data. "some accounts" is a red flag. If he’s wildly wrong NYT needs to retire him.

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German sadomonetarism.

Posted on November 21, 2013 by jgordon

Link. High heels and whip imagined.

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