How is my garden grow?

I was asked how is my weekend so far. Instead of lengthy descriptions I’ll give you a visual illustration. With a bonus: explanation of the original premise given by the guy: Scots always start out friendly and open minded. They embrace everyone with open arms which is why they go so ballistic when betrayed. [insert [...]

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Bubble pool

Via Isegoria comes  How thick is your bubble? quiz from a new book by Charles Murray ( Coming Apart) where he is trying to persuade majority of its takers that they live in disconnect with their country. There is a big gap, states Murray, between average white middle class person and the rest of America [...]

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Blogspot blood clot

Jeffro, why can’t I leave a comment @your place? It has always been not easy (what with the Captcha and entering my OpenID every time – Blogger does not remember it like WordPress does, and more often than not having to do it twice or get an “error” message). But now I couldn’t get through [...]

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Side-splitting

Tell me, do you find the comedian called Louis C K funny? Someone linked to his youtube appearances, so I looked… He seems to me rather rude, bullyish and infantile. I do understand he cultivates that persona, but the persona he cultivates is quite unpleasant. Also, I abhor the practice of using your close family [...]

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Book reader’11

Following Irene’s example, I’ll record my impression of the books I read in 2011r. These  few are among others I read in between blogs and job ads; the choice and opinion will tell you more about my state of mind in the past year than any lengthy description. Вслед за Ириной составила [неполный] список книг, [...]

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Страсти по Этике: PS

См. Update к посту. В длинном обсуждении с доктором Сигнамаксом и из вынужденно-краткого выcтупления его подруги Молли выяснилась любопытная вещь: врачи считают, что медицинская страховка пациенту ничего не стоит, поэтому никаких этических преград выпискe туда счетов у врача нет. Логика такая: ну он же всё равно уже за страховку заплатил, так какая ему разница, если [...]

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Задачка по этике

Дано***: На типичной бруклинской улице, в соседских таунхаузах живут две семьи. Семья М: мама, папа, один сын – студент-медик, живёт не дома, второй – подросток 12 лет. Семья Е: мама, папа, сын 16и лет. Папа М – врач, специальность – семейный доктор и геронтология. Живёт в основном с клиентов Медикейра и Медикейда. Семья Е с [...]

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Gender and talent

In the thread to this post I promised to give a summary of another – written by a scientist (a neuro-physiologist, as I understand) who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. The post is written in Russian, I’ll transfer it to English. I decided to keep editing to a minimum, due to being unfamiliar with [...]

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Успех эксперимента

Читаю описание эксперимента (выделено мной) Испытание Partners PrEP, которое было проведено в Кении и Уганде на дискордных парах. Дискордные пары – это пары, в которых один из партнеров заражен ВИЧ, а другой – нет. Они знают о болезни одного из партнеров, но продолжают жить вместе и занимаются сексом, а значит незараженный партнер регулярно подвергается риску [...]

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Jobs death hysteria

Update 10/9: that’s what I suspected. Glad to have it confirmed. [via Sema] The whole family of “I”s holds  no attraction for me whatsoever. Aesthetically: each of those items – pods, phones or pads -  look cheap, impersonal, badly stamped in China hellokitties, like pressed together plastic soapdishes, garishly colored expensive disposables – aesthetic of [...]

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