Tax payers here and elsewhere are being gipped by publishers who claim copyrights to the scientific literature. As an example, this article in Cell was supported by several grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01 AG034504, R01 AG030146, P30 AG10161, R01 AG17917, R01 AG15819, K08 AG034290,[...]
Archive for February, 2014
February 9th, 2014 - 2:43 pm § in Misc.
Meet Up With Drinking LIberals!
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally is looking for a new home because the Montlake Ale House has been sold. This week DL continues its traveling Drinking Liberally tour, in search of a new bar by coming to SLU and Paddy Coyne’s. Every one is welcome! The DL group usually attracts[...]
UN Refugee Camps Teach Palestinian Kids That They Have a Right to Israel
Who is the wolf that took away our palaces and villas by the sea? The Jews, The Jews![...]
South Carolina Prefers Government Fund Hospitals for the Poor Rather than Fund Obamacare
What next? Poor houses? State soup lines to replace food stamps? Nikki Haley rejected federal funds for poor folks .. “Medicaid” … but wants to bail out hospitals that will lose funding they would have gotten from Obamacare. She has increased payments to hospitals[...]
February 9th, 2014 - 2:34 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS “Happy the one who will seize and dash your infants against the rock!”
GOD Spews: A major difference between Judaism and Christianity is in the definition of the “Bible.” There is a lot of hatred in your “Bible” .. and a lot of effort to explain the hatred away by people who insist they know My intent. My intent is not a problem for fundamentali[...]
February 8th, 2014 - 3:20 am § in Misc.
What happens when someone studies the adacemic success of student athletes?
Watch this fascinating interview:[...]
February 8th, 2014 - 2:36 am § in Schools & Colleges
US Science Sinks, End of an era.
All of my life, the promise of US, my country, as the home of science, has been true .. not so much anymore. Chris Spaeth, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, having seen the federal budget that came out of the joint Appropriations Committee, is l[...]
SMS Photography: Obama Rally
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