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A rather personal example of this came home to roost today when several folks…
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This isn’t news to my readers but the sorry state of employment-based health insurance in the US means that anyone is one catastrophe away from bankruptcy.
A rather personal example of this came home to roost today when several folks…
Early this week, a British criminology professor wrote a slightly plaintive essay about the 19th century serial poisoner, Mary Ann Cotton. Why, he wondered, did no one remember the evil Mary Ann and her remarkable homicidal career: poisoning an…
Earlier this week I wrote a guest post for the Impact of Social Sciences blog. In the post I talk about a recent paper correlating tweets and citations (also discussed on this blog). But the main argument I…
In December, PLoS Medicine published a paper by An Pan and colleagues, which focused on shift work and type 2 diabetes. The authors found that working night shifts on rotation over extended periods of time modestly increased the risk…
I’ve been needing to get this out in the open since the excellent Science Online 2012 session that Maryn McKenna and Elizabeth Devita-Raeburn organized, on writing about science for women’s magazines.
A few years…
Travis’ Note: Today’s guest post comes from our friend and colleague Atif Kukaswadia, aka Mr Epidemiology. You can find more on Atif at the bottom of this post.
I’d like you to watch that video [email subscribers can…
I loves me some Soapbox. Thanks to the Nature blogs folks for letting me rant on a favorite theme:
As a graduate student, I studied the genetics of Hirschsprung disease, a congenital disorder of the nervous system in
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