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- Fear Of Malpractice Lawsuits Prompts Doctors To Work Less
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A new study in the Journal Of Law And Economics suggests that the number of hours physicians work each week is influenced by their fear of malpractice lawsuits. The study found that doctors cut back their workload by almost two hours each week when the exp ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2010 - 5:39pm
- Airports Could Get Mind-Reading Scanners
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Airports Could Get Mind-Reading Scanners- A mind-reading scanner that can tell if a given traveler is a potential threat. [LiveScience] When I first saw this article, I thought it couldn't be as silly as it sounded. I was wrong. The premise is based ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jan 28 2010 - 5:42pm
- A Smoker's Trip Down The Rabbit Hole
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Curiouser and curiouser.... it appears that smoking is not longer bad enough. Now, by the act of smoking, we are also generating that evil, pernicious secondary smoke. Just went you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse than being a smoker, you ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jan 28 2010 - 10:10pm
- The War Of The Wells
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Water has an economic value in all its competing uses and should be recognized as an economic good The Dublin Statement on Water and Economic Development In a warming world, will people fight over dwindling water supplies? Will there be water wars? What ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 29 2010 - 8:43am
- Whois James Delingpole?
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Whois James Delingpole? Never heard of him? I'm not surprised, really. James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything. Who said that? James Delingpole. He's a blogger. A journoblogger if you like. Not ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 29 2010 - 10:10pm
- Sing A Song Of Science: Blaze Away
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Sing A Song Of Science: Blaze Away Blaze away can mean 'fire at will'. In that sense, let's keep 'blazing away' at pseudoscience. Blaze away can also mean 'burn away', 'be consumed in flame'. Two recent news i ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 30 2010 - 8:54pm
- Morning Science Quote
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In the end, we should all like [mathematical] models that wear their faults on their sleeves.- Paul Wilmott, quoted in "Revenge of the Nerd", Newsweek June 8, 2009 Read the feed: ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 1 2010 - 6:01am
- Random Noise #19: How Many Things Have Scales?
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Random Noise #19: How Many Things Have Scales? Justice has scales. Wikimedia The famous scales of justice used to be about a fair and balanced trial. Today, scales of justice are rates of pay for lawyers based on how much justice the client wishes to bu ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 1 2010 - 7:39am
- Still Occasionally Brilliant
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As I quickly approach my forty-fourth birthday, I can almost feel the decline in my mental and physical abilities. Sure, I try to oppose it, but it is arguably an uphill fight. One of the means I have to gauge the line-up of my neurons is to play blitz gam ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 1 2010 - 2:38pm
- How Marketing Manipulates Our Preferences
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Whether people will indulge or be prudent with their money is not necessarily based on personality type or education, but may be strongly influenced by advertising and other environmental cues, according to two studies recently presented at the Academy of ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2010 - 12:31pm
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