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Saturday Night Science: Drink 5 |
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11:57 am EDT, Apr 8, 2007 |
no. more. triple sec. [I'm sorry to laugh, but the progression of this was great... more of us should liveblog our descent into drunkenness. -k] Saturday Night Science: Drink 5 |
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Grindhouse - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People |
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7:56 pm EDT, Apr 7, 2007 |
Planet Terror is like watching a live concert of your favorite band cover the guiltiest pleasures of your childhood: Ben Folds doing “Living on a Prayer,” Modest Mouse cranking out “Pour Some Sugar on Me,” or the White Stripes covering Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.” It’s bad (so bad), but it’s also so good.
I don't know if that statement is accurate, because I haven't seen the hipster double feature yet, but I don't care... this is one of the best lines ever written on the internets... Grindhouse - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People |
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Drug Companies Move to Make Compounded Medications Illegal |
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4:38 pm EDT, Apr 5, 2007 |
Today, if you are allegic to food dyes, corn starch, or some other filler ingredient used in pills, your pharmacist can obtain the chemicals from the drug company, and provide you the chemicals you need without you having to ingest what you are perhaps violently allergic to. Patients with painful nerve conditions - like me - have special formulas of lidocaine, capsicum, and a few other chemicals - mixed by the pharmacist into a numbing salve. The percentages can be tweaked by pain management physicians into a salve that keep people from having to take narcotics. My dad recently had to have a compounded medication to treat a spot of skin cancer. Drug Companies are moving to make compounded medications illegal though. They are sponsoring congressman to pass legislation that would mean that the only medications available to the public, are in the forms they provide, and that form ONLY. Combine this with their move to patent old drugs recently out of patent, with simple new methods of delivery, or just with an additional bit of tylenol, and you start to see how really greedy they are. For instance - Ultracet ® is often 60.00 to fill, but all it is in effect is tramadol (3.00 for a full bottle of generic) with tylenol (1.00 in generic.) [Yeah, pretty lame... -k] Drug Companies Move to Make Compounded Medications Illegal |
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xkcd - Ender - By Randall Munroe |
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8:40 pm EDT, Apr 4, 2007 |
xkcd is already the coolest, nerdiest comic ever, but this one is above and beyond, with a cheap pun that's nonetheless an inside reference to a sci fi book. Wow. xkcd - Ender - By Randall Munroe |
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4:20 pm EDT, Apr 3, 2007 |
Rad, but too hard for me to trace... God an interactive version would be awesome... The Shape of Song |
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4:19 pm EDT, Apr 3, 2007 |
Welcome to the alpha version of Many Eyes!
View your data, ask questions, and share your discoveries.
Harness the collective intelligence of the net for insight and analysis.
This is extremely cool. Many Eyes |
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Man with tuberculosis jailed for not wearing mask - CNN.com |
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3:49 pm EDT, Apr 3, 2007 |
Robert Daniels has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since last July. But he has not been charged with a crime. Instead, he suffers from an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. It is considered virtually untreatable. County health authorities obtained a court order to lock him up as a danger to the public because he failed to take precautions to avoid infecting others. Specifically, he said he did not heed doctors' instructions to wear a mask in public. "I'm being treated worse than an inmate," Daniels said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press last month. "I'm all alone. Four walls. Even the door to my room has been locked. I haven't seen my reflection in months."
This is an interesting problem and I agree that it's one the US may have to consider more frequently. The above reference is the only one that indicates that this patient has refused to wear a mask, and the only quotes we get from him is that he, at one point in the past, *did* not do so. I want to know more. If he is genuinely refusing to wear a mask, then he can stay where he is, in my opinion. It's not his right to knowingly act in a way that exposes others to harm. Period. I think it's terrible that he will have to go through his life with a mask on in public. That's terrible, and not even his fault probably, but that doesn't mean he should get to infect me, or even run the risk of doing so. This statement : "Involuntary detention should really be your last resort," Harrington said. "There's a danger that we'll end up blaming the victim."
seems to make sense at first but ultimately, I don't blame the victim for getting sick, but you better believe I'll blame him for delibarately acting in a way that endangers public health. Getting sick may not have been something he could control, but acting responsibly is. Nonetheless, the balance here -- the conditions of the incarceration, amenities provided, enforcement of release conditions etc. -- is going to be a fine point. -k Man with tuberculosis jailed for not wearing mask - CNN.com |
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