Top 5 Neuron Culture Posts for October
Category: Swine flu
A bit early yet, but as I'm traveling the rest of the month, here's my top 5 over the last month. Swine flu everywhere you look.
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I write on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications. (Find clips here.) Right now I'm writing my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which explores the hypothesis that the genetic roots some of our worst problems and traits — depresison, hyperaggression, violence, antisocial behavior — can also give rise to resilience, cooperation, empathy, and contentment. The book expands on my December 2009 Atlantic article exploring these ideas.
I've also written three books, including Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, which traces the strangest but most forgotten controversy in Darwin's career — an elemental dispute running some 75 years.
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October 27, 2009
October 26, 2009
Why is the swine flu vaccine so late? Who are you to ask such a question?
Category: Healthcare policy
I like industrial secrets as much as the next person. But it would seem that when tens of millions of doses of vaccine are weeks late, we might get something more specific than that one company was overoptimistic and another had trouble filling syringes.
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October 21, 2009
"The right to infect": SophiaZoe tells us what she really thinks about health workers & flu shots
Category: Healthcare policy
Nurses and doctors have won a victory in their battle for their "right" to infect patients with easily prevented...
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"YouTube! That's why I became a writer!"
Category: Books
This kills me -- but maybe just because I've written books. (Oh yeah -- the links to the books. First two here. Reef Madness here. Buy 'em. Read 'em. They're better than the stuff you're reading now.)
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Nate Silver's top ten reasons the public option is surging
Nate Silver gives 10 reasons the public option is surging. I throw in my doubts and caveats.
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October 16, 2009
Catfish v mosquitoes in foreclosed swimming pools
Category: Environment/nature
Don't see this every day. From the excellent Dovdox, Alan Dove's scijo blog: Awhile back, I commented on the...
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October 14, 2009
Poison King, Golden Pen -- Mayor's bio of Mithradates wins National Book Award nomination
Category: Books
Adrienne Mayor's riveting (if queasy-making) biography of Mitradates, "Poison King," is a finalist for the National Book Award. It's wonderful to see a skillfully executed and absorbing account of an obscure bit of history get this sort of well-deserved attention.
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The flu, Donald Fagan, Dana Blankenhorn, and the fellow in the brite nightgown
Category: Medicine
W.C. Fields (above) famously called death the “fellow in the brite nightgown.” A few years ago Donald Fagan turned this into a catchy song. To those unconcerned about H1N1 feel free to hum it on your way out the door, when said fellow gives you the victory hug.
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Anatomy of Japanese folk monsters
Category: Art
In honor of its pure strangeness
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October 13, 2009
If Vermont is #1 in health care, this country's in big trouble
Category: Healthcare policy
The steps we've taken, while half-measures to be sure, reflect the state's essential decency and civility. Yet Vermont's distinction is not in curing the healthcare problem. We're just stanching the bleeding a bit better than other states.
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