In case anyone’s interested, my article on Avian Flu (which I have to admit is very long) for NextGenMD is up! I got a chance to talk with Dr. Frederick Hayden (professor of clinical virology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine) and Dr. Michael T. Osterholm (director of the Center for Infectious Disease [...]
I’m positive someone reading this is going to (at least at first) think that I’m some horribly evil person for even entertaining the notion that torture can be legitimate, so I’ll preface this little rambling by just saying that this is an exploration on the lack of understanding between two sides of an issue. The [...]
In January, Jane posted this great informational bit on bird flu. If you haven’t looked at it and you’re still under the mistaken assumption that eating chicken will give you bird flu, take a look. She lays it out very plain and simple, although she shows a bit of optimism that I’m not too sure [...]
It often strikes me as funny the single-minded focus on “democracy” that the Bush administration and countless other Americans have. We are supposedly better because we are “a democracy” or “we have Britney” (ok maybe not so much that last one). Don’t get me wrong. America, in my mind at least, is currently the best [...]
I finished reading Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt on my return flight from the Barkley Forum at Emory this past weekend, and it definitely revived some of the economics-envy that I often feel when I see those ec kids studying interesting stuff. For the longest time, I wasn’t sure what to make of the book. The [...]
I’ve become more and more fascinated with Yahoo these days. A few years back I remember deciding that while I would keep my @yahoo email address (for posterity’s sake, although more seriously, I still get lots of important email to that account), the days that I would turn to Yahoo for anything more than Geocities [...]