Category: Art
Mind, brain, and body (including those gene things) While reading Wolpert's review of Greenberg's book, I found that the Guardian has a particularly rich trove of writings and resources on depression , some of it drawing on resources at BMJ (the journal formerly known as the British Medical Journal). ... The backchannel is the twitter stream that audience members now rather routinely produce while a conference speaker or panel holds forth at the front of the room; it carries hideous dangers for the unwary, unprepared, or just plain unlikeable speaker.
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Category: Brains and minds
Reading, ants, reading about ants, and Ezra Klein fact-checks David Brooks
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Category: Culture of science
How "This is Nifty" science stories are (part of) the foundation of democracy.
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Category: Healthcare policy
Healthcare reform? Were we talking about healthcare reform?
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Category: Healthcare policy
We don't have a government-run system. But our system is so expensive that our government's partial role is pricier...
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Category: Brains and minds
This is a good example of how reflexive diagnoses, as PTSD has become for any combat veteran (and sometimes even prospective combat veterans -- i.e., troops preparing to deploy), can do harm. They can lead you to ignore other possible causes of the symptoms on display.
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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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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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Category: Healthcare policy
The tone of discussions of reform in both Congress and the blogosphere has changed remarkably over the last few days. It's gone from pessimistic to optimistic, and from a sense of retreat and a whittling away of substantive reform toward a careful expansion of reform -- including the inclusion of a public option.
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Category: Healthcare policy
Probably dreaming. But now and then it all seems so real.
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I write 
