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Do Inhibitory Skills Improve with Practice? [Developing Intelligence]
The ability to suppress unwanted thoughts and actions is thought (by some) to be crucial in your ability to control behavior. However, alternative perspectives suggest that this emphasis on suppression or "inhibition" is misplaced. These perspectives, largely motivated by computational models of the brain, suggest that alternative abilities (such as the activation or "active maintenance" of wanted thoughts and actions) are the real underlying mechanisms of inhibition and suppression. This debate-
Sanger sequencing is not dead? [Genetic Future]
Daniel G. Hert, Christopher P. Fredlake, Annelise E. Barron (2008). Advantages and limitations of next-generation sequencing technologies: A comparison of electrophoresis and non-electrophoresis methods Electrophoresis, 29 (23), 4618-4626 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200800456 The dideoxy termination method of DNA sequencing (often called Sanger sequencing after the technique's inventor, Fred Sanger ) has been the workhorse of pretty much every molecular biology lab for the last 30 years. However, over the
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Surgeon General Gupta? [The Questionable Authority]
There are widespread reports out right now suggesting that President-Elect Obama has selected CNN's medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has selected to be the new Surgeon General. The reaction to this seems to be mixed. PZ , Orac , Chris , Paul Krugman and Dr. Val are variously unimpressed and/or opposed. Jake is ambivalent. Revere seems to be cautiously optimistic, while both Dr. Pal and Abel Pharmboy are happy. Personally, I'm a little bit more optimistic than cautious. Some of the reasons that
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The post of Surgeon General of the United States: the "most trusted name in public health"? [Effect Measure]
For some years I have been playfully asking students and colleagues (all active health professionals or professionals to be) if they could tell me the name of the Surgeon General of the United States. Few could. In fact, last night the current Acting Surgeon General's name was mentioned and I had not only forgotten who it was, but I actually know the guy (Steve Galson). If you ask public health professionals to name any SG, however, they all can. Most often it's C. Everett Koop but might also be
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Quick Thoughts on Sanjay Gupta and CNN Science [Framing Science]
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Kudos to the Obama administration for approaching one of America's top science communicators for the position of Surgeon General. Not only could CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta be a visible and persuasive media presence on heath care reform, but he will also hopefully use the authority of the Surgeon General's office to emphasize the health impacts of climate change. As I have written in the past , by re-framing climate change as a public health problem, there is an important new emphasis on the linkages
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Rejecting Homosexual Children Results in Disastrous Health Outcomes - An Appeal to Parents [denialism blog]
Not infrequently, science butts heads with culture as the data scientists collect about issues of the day may conflict with cultural perceptions and deeply-held beliefs. Attitudes and perceptions about homosexuality are, not surprisingly, a source of denialism as certain overvalued ideas about sexuality are being challenged with our deeper understanding of human sexual desire. For one, homosexuality is not a choice, despite all attempts to reprogram or suppress homosexual desires, the desires do
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Art, Medicine, and Feeding Funnels [bioephemera]
Without Hope Frida Kahlo, 1945 Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino, Mexico City I ran across an extremely interesting article by Richard and Maureen Park in the December BMJ. It focuses on the decidedly un festive procedure of force-feeding via funnel, and how that medical procedure has been represented in art. I don't think I've ever really thought about this topic before in a medical context. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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Refining thoughts on Sanjay Gupta - gravitas [Terra Sigillata]
Just another quick note reflecting further on my 8-minute gut reaction yesterday to word that Sanjay Gupta might be nominated as Surgeon General in the Obama administration. I still contend he's a great communicator but realize that the "both sides of the story" aspect of journalism has made some uneasy about where he'd actually stand on issues as a government leader of public health. In my post yesterday, I also neglected to consider some of the more controversial moments in Gupta's past stories
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The Australian's War on Science XXXI [Deltoid]
Ian Musgrave has written the post I was going to write on Jon Jenkins' article in the Australian , so I just want to emphasize that fitting a degree six (yes, degree six) to temperature data does not produce a meaningful trend line in any way shape or form. Go read . Note that if the editors at the Australian had bothered to read their own paper just three days earlier they would have known that the Jenkins' claims about the Oregon petition and global cooling were rubbish. News Limited blogger Grame
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What is Lou Dobbs' problem? [The Island of Doubt]
Bluesy Monday is the one day that they came here, When they haunt me and they taunt me in my cage. I mock them all, they're feelin' small, they got no answer. They're playing dumb but I'm just laughing as they rage. -- Davies, Richard; Hodgson, Roger, "Asylum" A single transgression can be excused, but on Monday Lou Dobbs repeated his dismissal of climate science and again entertained the notion that the sun is to blame for what's happening with global temperatures. As an American journalist, he
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