Category Archives: Science

Got a hunch…

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 30, 2009

Caterina describes HUNCH here. I have a few invitations if you’d like to climb on-board and share your inner being with the machine. Sen me an email or leave a comment. Wishing I was at F2C, David Isenberg’s annual inside-the-beltway thing. It’s being tweeted here and chatted there, but text doesn’t let you hear the [...]

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COURAGE Guinea pigs — patients at veterans hospitals

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 26, 2009

Optimal Medical Therapy with or without PCI for Stable Coronary Disease, NEJM April 12, 2007 Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation (COURAGE) This is not to question the ethical standards of the men and women who conducted this research, nor is it to voice a cultural criticism regarding the Veterans Administration as a [...]

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Select Alaska Links

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 15, 2008

Alaska Lynx Encounters (mp3)… Richard Nelson’s direct experience with polar bears. Encounters (web site) Richard Nelson biography Blogs bringing up to the minute facts and perspectives from our 49th State… AndrewHalcro.com Mark Begich for U.S. Senate Progressive Alaska AK Root Cellar Alaska Anonymous Alaska Cafe Alaska Chinook Alaska Employment Law Alaska Peace Coalition Alaska Real [...]

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We are, of course, doomed

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 10, 2008

“The LHC is super-duper fly…” yeah, but is it safe. Not everyone agrees. The Mayan calendar ends in 2012. Bible thumpers and snake handlers all across Jesusland agree that the last days are upon us. We are in the end times. Sadly, it’s not even because Jesus is pissed. No, it’s more high tech than [...]

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fyi

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 29, 2008

Anybody else see a couple of problems looming for the dream ticket? See: Wired Science -and- See: Threat Level [tags]drill and pump, pump and drill, kill the whales, eat their krill[/tags]

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Flew his Lear jet up to Nova Scotia…

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 1, 2008

My climatologist friend David is up near Mongolia today for the total eclipse of the sun (mapped by Google here.) In other science news, there’s a big brouhaha brewing about the gent from Qatar who shipped his Lamborghini LP640 to England to have it serviced. The maintenance itself runs US$7,000 so why not add another [...]

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Caught my eye this morning…

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 30, 2008

Frank Wilczek’s new “baby”… The Lightness of Being I almost begged for a review copy, but then I saw that blurbs were all by other Nobel Prize winners and crack physicists and such. That took me down a peg. I intend to read it though. And I certainly WOULDN’T TURN DOWN a review copy. The [...]

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Shark Week

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 29, 2008

Heather Hravilesky’s Salon piece on Shark Week piqued my interest.  The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week has legs. Check out these other nods to the annual celebration… Shark Week cupcakes Flying Sharks Ryan Seacrest let’s it all hang out. (Could have been a lot worse than a toe, Ryan.) LAist has fine chops Rita Lugo is [...]

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