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Links 3/17: Siteochrome P450
Greek scholar Philitas of Cos “studied false arguments and erroneous word-usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death”. Outgroup Threat Responses, Ingroup Bias, And Nonapeptide Involvement Are Conserved Across Vertebrates. “In particular, the evolutionarily conserved, hormone-regulated nonapeptide … Continue reading
Links 2/17: Site Your Sources
A while ago when we discussed drug tolerance here, some people taught me about receptors that activated two different second messenger chains, and how you could modulate the balance of effects by finding agonists that disproportionately activated one or the … Continue reading
Links 1/17: Inaugurl Address
Dave Barry’s 2016 Year In Review. “Fanatics got into the Capitol building and committed a mass shooting on Congress while it was in session, and you’ve never heard of them…people have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen … Continue reading
Links 12/16: The Site Before Christmas
International Date Line In Judaism: Some authorities posit a “zone of pure doubt” stretching from longitudes 169W to 177E and containing Tonga, Samoa, and American Samoa, where it is so confusing when to observe Shabbat that Jews should just completely … Continue reading
Links 12/16: Site Makes Right
The town of Monkey’s Eyebrow, Kentucky is supposedly named because it’s in a county whose shape looks like a monkey’s head, and the town is around where the eyebrow would be. A man involved in a homophobic hate killing and … Continue reading
Links 11/16: Site Unseen
Attn fans of Research Agreements: China has reconstructed the Porcelain Tower Redditor justdoittimes5 looks up some data relevant to my Against Tulip Subsidies and finds that medical students who studied science in undergrad gain no advantage over those who did … Continue reading
Links 10/16: New URLeans
Hey, remember that time when Merv, Turkmenistan was the largest city in the world? What about when it was Dobrovody, Ukraine? Here’s a helpful cheat sheet if you’re feeling a little lost. Marble quarries somehow look both exactly how you … Continue reading
Links 9/16: URL Of The Chaldees
500 BC: Buddha preaches a message of peace and compassion. 1411 AD: China and Sri Lanka go to war over the Buddha’s tooth. More on confusing effects of school entry age: in Brazil, students who enter first grade later get … Continue reading
Links 8/16: On My Right Hand Michael; On My Left Hand URL
Have you heard of Desert Bus, the terrible game about driving a bus for eight real-time hours through a monotonous desert landscape? You have? Then did you know it’s part of Penn and Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors, a collection of … Continue reading
Links 8/16: Ode On A Grecian URL
Israel now gets 55% of its water from desalinization and has gone from drought-stricken to having more than enough to share. Related: Jeff Kaufman on the economics of desalinization in California. Long 2004 piece by Atul Gawande on ranking doctors … Continue reading