NY Times: “In Reversal, Student Is Given Extra Exam Time to Pump Breast Milk”: Sophie Currier, who was refused appropriate accommodations to pump breastmilk for her young daughter while sitting her medical Board exams, has had the ruling overturned on… Read More ›
Day: 2007-09-28
Friday Hoydens: xkcd’s EMP Cannon squad
Source: xkcd, of course
Active management of physicians
Birth International: “The Active Management of Labour”. This is an informative, readable article on a bit of the history of the Dublin protocol of “Active management of labour” (AML), a set of interventions used by hospitals to increase labour ward… Read More ›
The second election: who will control the Senate?
Hopping on to my hobby horse again, but there’s been a development this week: there’s actually corporate media coverage of the Senate balance issue. Bob Brown posted a video about the Senate election last week; There are really two elections… Read More ›
Sinking Feeling
That was the first sensation I had when I heard about the demonstrations in Burma/Myanmar, because I felt that the junta would be moved to violent repression just like they were in 1988. I was too anxious about the possibility… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 