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Tag Archives: links
Links 7/16: Grad, Div, and URL
I’ve previously disagreed with the restrictions on suboxone prescribing. Now the Obama administration has relaxed some of those restrictions, almost tripling the number of suboxone patients doctors can treat from 100 to 275. Very big (n = 15,000) Romanian study … Continue reading
Links 7/16: Peter Linklage
Newspapers showed the picture of a man who died in the terrorist attacks on Paris last year. But somebody who is clearly the same man was shown as being killed in the Orlando nightclub shooting last month. And now the … Continue reading
Links 6/15: URLing Toward Freedom
Did you know England has one of the highest rates of tornadoes per unit area of anywhere in the world? Why do some schools produce a disproportionate share of math competition winners? May not just be student characteristics. My post … Continue reading
Links 6/16: Linkandescence
Maybe you knew that Maoist China got really obsessed with mangos for a while. But did you know that it reached the point where “when one dentist in a small village compared a mango to a sweet potato, he was … Continue reading
Links 5/16: Linko de Mayo
The Theory Of Deadly Initials proposed that people whose initials spelled out negative words, like D.I.E. or B.A.D., died earlier because of the associated stress. People believed this for years before someone figured out it was all based on bad … Continue reading
Links 4/16: They Can’t Link Our Dick
[Disclaimer: None of these immediately set off alarms, but I have not double-checked all of them to make sure they are accurate. Please correct me if any are false or misleading] Zerão is a Brazilian football stadium with the dividing … Continue reading
Links 3/16: Klapaucius And URL
“All infinite regresses are at most three levels deep”, versus the US military’s R4D program to build a radar detector detector detector detector. Jury fines Gawker $115 million + for releasing a sex tape taken of wrestler Hulk Hogan without … Continue reading
Links 3/16: Rulink Class
New research: toxoplasma’s effects on cats and animals are as creepy as ever, but it probably doesn’t affect human behavior. New drug nilotinib looks very promising for Parkinson’s disease, may clean up proteins associated with death of dopamine-producing cells. Good … Continue reading
Links 2/16: N-Acetyl Selink
Famous books rewritten in the style of Donald Trump: Lord Of The Rings, Atlas Shrugged Confucianism is newly popular in China after bouncing back from its Cultural Revolution-era ban. The government hopes to build up the philosophy as some kind … Continue reading
Links 1/16: Shaolink
The McCullough Effect is an optical illusion where after you stare at one picture, another picture looks like it has some different colors. But unlike normal retinal-satiety optical illusions which last a couple of seconds, the McCullough Effect can last … Continue reading