Category Archives: Health

2010 Mar 21 Sunday

Health care reform passes House with 219 votes (via Boing Boing)

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Health care reform passes House with 219 votes – Boing Boing.

by Dr. Agonize @ 10:53 pm

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2010 Mar 10 Wednesday

Helen Fisher figured out love (via FORA.tv)

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Just watched part of a speech about love by Biological Anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, PhD. She is apparently responsible for Match.com’s system for, well, matching people. This system puts people into 4 categories, much like the ancient humours system or a simplified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. But unlike most personality types, her groupings are based on [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 12:29 pm

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2010 Mar 08 Monday

Sleep Deprivation: The Great American Myth (via LiveScience)

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I am a night owl. I usually stay up late working. It’s when my mind is able to focus best on the things that are important to me. Staying up late causes me to sleep when other people are awake, and to sometimes put off sleeping so that I can be with the people I [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 5:19 pm

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2010 Mar 01 Monday

What do we need health insurers for anyway? (via Los Angeles Times)

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Michael Hiltzik translates WellPoint CEO Angela Braly’s words thusly: The nation’s health coverage system is so hopelessly broken that even the health insurance industry can’t handle it anymore. Insuring the aging and unemployed is killing health insurance profits! Those poor, poor insurers… via What do we need health insurers for anyway? – Los Angeles Times

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:21 pm

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2010 Jan 22 Friday

“House of Numbers” looks beneath the surface of HIV/ AIDS

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It should be no surprise that a huge amount the knowledge that we all carry in our heads bears very little resemblance to reality. Our first-hand knowledge of the world is adulterated by our own sloppy memory systems and emotional filters. The reliability of the second-hand knowledge we have is orders of magnitude more suspect. [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:41 pm

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2009 Sep 04 Friday

DataSmut: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins

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Wired has a very cool little article that visualizes each “sin” on a map of our great nation: We’re gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:26 pm

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2009 Sep 04 Friday

Al Franken talks sense about healthcare

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Who knew that speaking reasonably could be so sexy? Oh yeah….Senator Paul Simon knew, may he rest in peace. When Senator Al Franken was confronted by an angry mob of teabagger/anti-healthcare-reform types, he calmly, rationally and intelligently talked them down, setting an example for how to conduct reasoned discourse that relies on facts and rationality [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:50 am

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2009 Aug 25 Tuesday

TIME catches wind of news that cheap food is bad for you

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We’ve been hearing about the medical cost of eating cheap food from our mothers for decades, and from Morgan Spurlock since 2004. Book-movies like “Fast Food Nation” and “Food, Inc.” have delved into the environmental effects of cheap food from how mega-farming poisons our land and threatens genetic diversity, to the working conditions that endanger [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:01 pm

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2009 Aug 24 Monday

Neuroscientist studying serial killers finds axe-murderer in family tree! (via TED.com)

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Oh sweet irony! Neuroscientist Jim Fallon talks about brain scans and genetic analysis that may uncover the rotten wiring in the nature (and nurture) of murderers. In a too-strange-for-fiction twist, he shares a fascinating family history that makes his work chillingly personal. Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer (via TED.com)

by Dr. Agonize @ 7:46 pm

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2009 Aug 24 Monday

Joe Ferraro challenges Obama from the Left

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I just learned about this guy, and he’s my new hero. Joe Ferraro called in during an interview with The Prez on Thursday and said this: “I’m getting a little ticked off that it feels like the knees are buckling a little bit…We have overwhelming majorities in both the House and the Senate. And we [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 7:21 pm

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