Link. I’d have guessed far more.
Daily Archives: July 8, 2018
“hoped-for administrative savings from HIT have not materialized, even as HIT seems to have had a positive impact on clinical outcomes.”
Link. Failed at both admin cost AND productivity. Deeply disappointing.
No relationship between statin use and OA
Link. Doesn’t reduce risk. Alas.
Fermi paradox topic: how essential is our particular solar system?
Link. Probably not very.
Canada: “Down-on-their-luck towns like Chesterville, Ontario, hope that marijuana will reverse economic decline.”
Link. During Prohibition Canadians built fortunes supplying the US.
“Eyecool … handing over two million facial images each day to a burgeoning big-data police system called Skynet.”
Link. China security tech has dark sense of humor.
Russia on US assholeitude: “we feel that it is wrong when a big country tries to push around some very small countries, especially on an issue that is really important for the rest of the world”
Link. Twisting the knife. And Trump’s their boy-toy.
“Collins and Murkowski have a script: They make centrist-sounding statements, to shore up their images, and then vote aye.”
Link. Don’t angst about SCOTUS. That battle was lost in 2016. Fight the midterms.
GOP steals infant organs for Trump donors …
Link. … only mild exaggeration. Dr Evil flabbergasted.
76 environmental rules reversed by GOP.
Link. Not just Trump, entire GOP. Fixable if voters choose.
Obama on the Trumpista: “They’re mad even when they win”
Link. Murdoch.
Learning to bike as an adult American immigrant.
Link. An adventurous group.
The Phosphoproteomic pocket watch – evolution and medicine
… as in all of molecular biology, closer inspection not only reveals a wealth of impressive detail, but huge numbers of things which do not so much appear to have been carefully crafted by a divine hand, as much as assembled by a blind lunatic with infinite time, infinite willingness to tinker (and a correspondingly infinite willingness to accept whatever works as soon as it does), and infinite supplies of duct tape, super glue, and baling wire. What’s more, the whole mechanism keeps falling apart over time in subtle (and not so subtle) ways, which just leads to casual repurposing of the altered pieces.
I learned how this happens by analyzing 19th century freight train breaking systems when I was 17.
“clusters of phosphorylation events that can be binned and apparently assigned to behavioral phenotypes”
Link. It is incredible that our medications work at all.
Warning to Children by Robert Graves.
Link. Via Derek Lowe, for the curious.