One feature I really like on Facebook now is that I can create friend-lists and add my FB-Friends to whichever lists I choose, and then when I’m viewing my FB home page I can filter the news feed according to… Read More ›
Science
Skeptical YouTube OTD
This one is doing the rounds, so apologies to those who’ve seen it already:
Tech Tips: Obscuring Spoilers in Comments – Screen Reader Accessible!
Spoilers in comments. They’re an ongoing issue. And holding back from spoilers can close off productive areas of discussion. Sometimes in comments, when I write some spoilerish stuff, I obscure it with black on black, like this: This is a… Read More ›
On Insanity: Ladies Nervously Affected
While participating in the Feministe thread on fibromyalgia, I’ve been re-reading a few UK-based journal papers on how chronic fatigue syndrome is all in our heads and shit. I just re-stumbled across this little nugget from the British Medical Journal,… Read More ›
Aaarggghhh
My desktop is not booting up. Power lights come on, a brief moment of disc whirring, then sinister quiet and a dead monitor screen. Fortunately, we are a networked household so I can use another computer. BUT I WANT MINE!!!… Read More ›
Zing.
We interrupt your regular schedule of ranting, rainbows, and roundups for this important announcement: Scoot! Whee! Zing! Audience Participation Component: – It doesn’t have a name yet. – I am not planning to “pimp” it (shudder), but recommendations for Aussie… Read More ›
AMA delegation seeks to code for non-compliant and ungrateful patients
Update: A twitterer tells me this was just considered by the AMA and defeated – I’m looking for details. Because if they tried this once, they’ll try it again. Further update: Found it. Details are appended. ~~~ The American Medical… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Baby Jargoner
Via Neatorama, this unnamed baby is my Hoyden of the week. Because she has something to SAY, and she’s not going to let anything so trivial as not having developed expressive vocabulary stop from her saying it.
A quick question
There’s a lot of finger-pointing in the anti-vaccine movement about how any doctors or scientists who accept the scientific consensus that vaccines are the single most effective life-prolonging medical innovation in human history are just greedy, greedy Big Pharma shills… Read More ›
What “Elective Surgery” really means
And yes, Virginia, this does apply to abortion surgery as well. I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of people arguing that women having therapeutic late-term abortions don’t really have good medical reasons because the surgeries are classified as elective… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 