April 28, 2008
The rational behind high oil prices.
“According to normal economic theory, and the history of oil, rising prices have two major effects,” said Fatih Birol, the chief economist at the International Energy Agency, which advises industrialized countries. “They reduce demand and they induce oil supplies. Not this time.”
Supreme Court Upholds Voter Identification Law in Indiana - New York Times
An interesting decision by the Supreme Court.
April 27, 2008
Karl Rove advises Obama
You argue the son of a single working mom can't be an elitist. But it's
not where you start in life; it's where you end up. After a prestigious
prep school, Columbia and Harvard, you've ended up with the values of
Cambridge, San Francisco and Hyde Park. So you're doing badly in
Scranton, Youngstown and Erie, where ordinary Americans live.
Caring for your introvert
Extroverts therefore dominate public life. This is a pity. If we
introverts ran the world, it would no doubt be a calmer, saner, more
peaceful sort of place. As Coolidge is supposed to have said, "Don't
you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would
disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?"
April 25, 2008
Baseball Dares to Be Different - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120907935062743195-3epIaXhZtS55h4DdcLw0WRD9Nns_20090425.html
Changes in pitching strategy and lineup as a weather dependent
phenomenon.
April 23, 2008
Carrier on PBS
http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/
Mark your calendars. April 27th to May 1 from 9 to 11pm on PBS.
I am predicting that this will be PBS's most important documentary in
many years.
I bet you Obama won't be watching this.
April 22, 2008
April 20, 2008
April 19, 2008
How to find your first apartment in NYC
“Almost every single person I’ve worked with thinks there’s a golden nugget of an apartment waiting right for them,” said Paul Hunt, an agent at Citi Habitats who specializes in rentals. “They all want to be in the Village, and they all want the ‘Sex and the City’ apartment.”
April 18, 2008
Field Notes
I'm not writing it down to remember it later, I'm writing it down to remember it now.
April 17, 2008
A conversation with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - Charlie Rose
Excellent inteview with Arnold and bloomberg. I wish bloomberg would
run for president.
April 16, 2008
April 15, 2008
NEJM -- Universal Coverage One Head at a Time -- The Risks and Benefits of Individual Health Insurance Mandates
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/358/15/1540
Individual mandates is the key difference between the Clinton and
Obama healthcare plans. This article summarizes the issue.
Profile of Ed Rendell
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=155903&f=77
Rendell is one of my favorite politicians. I once saw him do the
macarena.
[Sent from my iPod touch]
xPad. The Ultimate Notepad.
This is a great replacement for reading txt files. I use it all the
time. The only weakness is that spotlight is not able to index the
contents of xpad.
April 14, 2008
#1 Song on This Date in History
Find the song that was #1 on the billboard charts on your birthday.
April 12, 2008
all about Steve - All-time favorites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOVRgVPrGlQ
Some consider these as Steve Jobs best quotes.
April 9, 2008
Is increasing ER use actually due to the uninsured? Maybe not.
in the Annals of Emergency Medicine
Conclusion: The rise in ED visits between 1996 and 2003 cannot be primarily attributed to the
uninsured. Major contributors to increasing ED utilization appear to be disproportionate increases in use by nonpoor persons and by persons whose usual source of care is a physician’s office.
April 8, 2008
Profiles: Somebody Has to Be in Control: Reporting
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/14/080414fa_fact_parker?currentPage=all
George clooney has become one of my favorite actors. He has some of
the glamour of the actors from the fifties and still has a sense of
modernity to him.
April 7, 2008
Frontline: Bush's War
This is amazing. Frontline has put the whole documentary Bush's War online. It's 5 hours long. But it's comprehensive and shows the evolution of the War in Iraq.
April 6, 2008
April 5, 2008
MLB Standing April 5, 2008
Let it be know that on April 5, 2008, the Rays were in first place in the AL East, while the Yankees had falled to last place.
Simvastatin with or without Ezetimibe in Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Link to the Article: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/358/14/1431
In patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, combined therapy with ezetimibe and simvastatin did not result in a significant difference in changes in intima–media thickness, as compared with simvastatin alone, despite decreases in levels of LDL cholesterol and C-reactive protein.
NYT Article about the Blogging Lifestyle
Bloggers at some of the bigger sites say most writers earn about
$30,000 a year starting out, and some can make as much as $70,000. A
tireless few bloggers reach six figures, and some entrepreneurs in the
field have built mini-empires on the Web that are generating hundreds
of thousands of dollars a month. Others who are trying to turn blogging
into a career say they can end up with just $1,000 a month.
Verbarius electronic clock
Verbarius spells time differently every minute. It’s either forty-five minutes past four, or fifteen minutes to five, or four forty-five, or a quarter to five.
NYT: In Massachusetts, Universal Co
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=153556&f=19
There is an important lesson here. We must address the shortage of
primary care doctors before moving to national universal healthcare.
[Sent from my iPod touch]
April 3, 2008
Naz Hamid's Presentation at SXSWi
The slides are really well done and worth taking a look at. I think he's using Gotham font. (I'm starting to see Gotham everywhere)
Audio in MP3 (45 minutes)
Slides (in pdf format 20mb)
April 2, 2008
April 1, 2008
AED = CPR
Conclusions For survivors of anterior-wall myocardial infarction who were not candidates for implantation of a cardioverter–defibrillator, access to a home AED did not significantly improve overall survival, as compared with reliance on conventional resuscitation methods.
