College students pay for tax cuts

The money has to come from somewhere. You can’t simply “cut taxes in the face of huge deficits”:http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/14695544.htm and expect no consequences. With the “ridiculousness of the Laffer curve”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve (or Bush’s implementation of it) being exposed every day and “record profits”:http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14697409.htm&cid=1106753114&sig2=zbwt5vlhdMU7IGZMZcJ_Pw at oil companies, you’d expect some less mind-bogglingly stupid deficit reduction strategy. But no. [...]

From the department of “No $#!+, Sherlock!”

Two-year-olds don’t pay attention to instructions given to them by Barney the -Monster- Dinosaur

Beware of health information that you read …

… even if it “comes from the AMA(American Medical Association)”:http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/suspect-health-information-sneaking-into-print-10695.html. Scary stuff. Make sure you corroborate information from independent sources.

Spooky Hoffa cupcakes sell like hotcakes

Now, “this”:http://www.wftv.com/foodnews/9272503/detail.html is creepy, especially when you consider even the FBI(Federal Bureau of Investigation) ordered some. (via “PharmaGossip”:http://pharmagossip.blogspot.com)

Nationbuilding

According to Yahoo!, there is no more unclaimed land. So you can’t go off exploring and make your own nation.

RNA responsible for some inheritance

Mice and corn are just two observed examples of situations where the laws of heredity seem to be violated. Turns out, RNA(Ribonucleic Acid) is the culprit in these examples, where somehow RNA(Ribonucleic Acid) for a recessive gene makes it into the sperm or egg and is able to replicate in the offspring. Every step we [...]

They did it. They really did it.

In 2004, GlaxoSmithKline pledged to make the results of all their trials public. Here’s the fruits of their efforts so far. Of course, being the statistician, I’d rather get the raw data, but I’m just being greedy.

Yoga’s helping in the classroom, too

Yoga, in addition to being an exercise, is a way to be more conscious of our normally unconscious habits — breathing, posture, emotional reactions, and so forth. So, I wonder how it works in a high school phys ed classroom.

Because there’s only one type of altie, right?

Shorter Orac: Gah! Alties want mercury in their own products but no one else’s!

Lying with statistics? — The JAMA(Journal of the American Medical Association) report

So the cat’s out of the bag. A recent JAMA report has shown that outcomes are correlated with funding sources. Let’s throw one benign factor into the mix. I’m not saying that this is the defining characteristic of this apparent assocation shown in the JAMA article, but it’s one I don’t hear discussed much. Perhaps, [...]