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This week’s New York Times has a good article with new facts about the flu. Seems that there have been very few experiments looking at flu transmission because there weren’t any good (read: cheap, and non-biting) animal models for flu spread. Even if you could infect them with flu, most animals then didn’t transmit flu […] We launch the first Doc Gurley audiocast with a Homeless Gift Guide broadcast on UK’s Global Local Radio at http://www.canstream.co.uk/copperbeech/index.php?id=78 In this broadcast, we go on a fieldtrip and gift a homeless person “live”–just to show how safe and easy the whole process can be. Listen for yourself and see how much joy you can […] This week’s Sunday San Francisco Chronicle includes an article by Doc Gurley about how to give a gift to a homeless person. Heavily edited due to space constraints (despite the impressive amount of space they gave me–when I get inspired, I go for it, but there’s only so much space on a Sunday paper page…), […] Alien Invasion of Humans Proven by Scientist Sigourney Weaver was right Buried in what Dave Barry calls the “mainstream media,” was an article with this happy-face headline: “Babies protect mothers against breast cancer.” What could be more warm and fuzzy than that? However, if you, like […] No country in the world has done a more thorough job of circumcising it’s newborn boys than the United States. In many places, if you don’t put a Do Not Cross Crime Scene tape across your new son’s genitals, he’ll get whisked off and trimmed before you know it. And yet, here we are with […] |
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