Some of you may have stumbled across a news article citing a fancy-sounding “study” by Peter Carroll of London’s Pension and Population Research Institute: “The Breast Cancer Epidemic: Modeling and Forecasts Based on Abortion and Other Risk Factors”. From the… Read More ›
Day: 2007-10-05
Friday Hoyden: Miriam Margolyes
“I am rather an opinionated person I suppose,” Nothing I could write could do justice to Margolyes the way this transcript from the interview she did on Enough Rope does, although the simple transcript doesn’t give you the sense of… Read More ›
Feminism Friday: Like a puke party in the Barbie factory
We’ve long known that there are regular games and toys, and there are girls’ games and toys. Here’s a pile of the latest puce spew, mostly via Yehuda. Pink Playstation 2. Comes bundled with Singstar Pop, of course. As well… Read More ›
Capacity, utilisation and peak demand
In our last big discussion at LP on problems in the public health system (regarding the Coalition plan to initiate a revamped hospital training program for new nurses) a lot of us pointed fingers at the bean counters as the… Read More ›
“The Random Lunchtime SMS Romance”
Cheers to whoozqueen, who has agreed to let me copy this SMS conversation here. I have edited it to change the names only. Apparently, you can’t even take a wrong number SMS these days without getting hit on. I can’t… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 