January 2010
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Doc Who Tied Vaccine to Autism Ruled Unethical →
jayparkinsonmd: This is very good news. The doctor who scammed the world and the celebrities into thinking there was some connection between vaccines and autism has finally been punished. Rational scientists all over the world are now waiting to see if he’s kicked out of the rational circle and losing his license. FINALLY.
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Women, the best freaking firewall in the world! →
jayparkinsonmd:franklieu: One human cell contains 75MB genetic information. One sperm contains a half of that; that is 37.5MB. One ml of semen contains 100 million sperms. In average, ejaculation lasts for 5 sec and contains 2.25 ml semen. This means that the throughput of a man’s member is equal to (37.5MB x 100,000,000 x 2.25)/5 = 1 687 500 000 000 000 byte/second = 1,6875 Тerabyte/sec This...
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new life challenge:
spelling. ever since starting medical school, i’ve been needing to spell/write out words that are longer than my notebook allows. example = dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. and every time i fail, i think it makes me look like a major fob. mostly cause there are lots of fobs here. and they can’t spell either. dammit i need a medical-terms-spellcheck for my pen! let’s see apple...
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i really hate to admit this
but damn, the twilight new moon soundtrack is amazing. FYI, i havent seen the movies and dont ever plan on seeing them. ever. ever.
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this is insane, 15 yr old girl gets pregnant via... →
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“The minimum wage might have been bumped up to $7.25 an hour in 2009, but that...”
– Should Disabled Workers Be Paid Less Than Minimum Wage? | End Human Trafficking | Change.org Just in case people have forgotten that slavery, or at least de facto slavery, is alive and well, even in America. (via bmckinney) When I found out about this last week I was just beyond disgusted. I’m...
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What Could You Live Without?  →
caraobrien: Nick Kristof’s Sunday column in the NY Times about a family that sold their house and gave half the profits to the Hunger Project, a non-profit I posted about a few weeks ago. this is so great.
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“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country...”
– Confucius (via caraobrien)
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“I am Conan O’Brien, and I am just three days away from the biggest drinking...”
– Conan O’Brien | The Tonight Show (via danhacker)
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Egypt: Free Activists Detained on Solidarity Visit →
caraobrien: From Human Rights Watch, excerpt: Egyptian authorities should immediately release at least 29 young activists who were arrested yesterday in Nag’ Hammadai while on their way to pay their condolences to the families of six Coptic Christians shot and killed on the Coptic Christmas Eve, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the government to prosecute all those...
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“you should look it up in the google”
– my embryology professor on the new basic 5th taste the tongue detects,  umami for savoriness
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