Don’t believe what you may have heard about women not having chest pain when they are having a heart attack
Science
Can’t grab a Flickr image URL any more? Here’s a fix.
Some flickr-using bloggers might have wondered why they suddenly can’t right-click (double-finger-tap, etc) one of their images from a main photo page to “Copy Image Location” any more. This is apparently a result of flickr’s new People In Photos feature,… Read More ›
Quick Hit: Want Androcur? Join the Sex Offender Registry!
ETA (18 Oct 2009): This may, in fact, be complete rumour, everyone! Apologies for not checking; I didn’t realise the PBS was online. If you look here, you can see that there are multiple indications under which it can be… Read More ›
So, we just missed Pastor Danny Nalliah at Mt Ainslie yesterday
I’d forgotten all about the panicmongering from Catch the Fire ministries about alleged blood sacrifices by witches on the mountain-top from a few weeks ago, but Saturday was the day of the exorcism for the evil spirits raised by these rust stains at the base of an air safety beacon just below the summit.
Osteoma
Well that’s a relief. Would have been nicer if I hadn’t had to wait weeks to see a specialist for less than five minutes to hear the news.
Twitter is TEOTWAWKI: Tech Culture Wars
Tigtog has been blogging about how, contrary to Chicken Little predictions of electronic media being the end of literacy worldwide, children today are better writers than ever before. I was just watching this interview on “The Twitter Revolution”, Chuck Klosterman… Read More ›
Not-so-evil internets: making kids better writers
Every few months or so, we read about some freaked out reporter/columnist/pundit/politician complaining about how the internet and texting are destroying kids’ ability to write. Yet, pretty much every study on the subject has found the opposite to be true. Study after study after study after study after study have all found that kids today are better writers than in the past.
New study on negative effects of smacking children
Dr Straus said children who constantly faced physical punishment lived in fear and suffered stress, which was associated with poorer academic performance.
One for the annals of classic rebuttals
Lots of people in skeptical circles have linked to this, so many of you may have seen it already. Marvellous effort from Cristina in Romania, pointing out that not only is the latest attempt by American fundagelicals to demonise Darwin full of the usual ignorance of actual science, misrepresentations of science and outright falsehoods about Darwin and science, it’s full of double standards and blatant hypocrisy as well.
Petty Peeve OTD: Diagnosis Murder edition
Furrfu, Hollywood.
Hoyden About Town 