The well-respected New England Journal of Medicine has announced it will no longer exclude doctors from reviewing articles if they are also earning money from pharmaceutical companies – up to $10,000 a year from any one company. The editor-in-chief said,

“There are areas where we simply have not published anything because we didn’t think we could get a person who was good to write in an area that had absolutely no interaction with a commercial entity.”

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Yes, we all know that in many ways Hollywood’s grasp of science is weak – but it is still fun to read in some detail why some things that you see on screen make no sense. And the creator of this site does point out some things that I hadn’t thought of, like:

“A single inexpensive passive sensor can be used to detect the presence of human motion for an entire room. While multi-beamed laser security systems are not impossible, there’s usually no reason to use one…

…When a sniper looks through the telescopic sight on his rifle, he knows where the bullet is going to go relative to the crosshairs. Adding a laserbeam would do nothing except tip off the victim that he’s about to be shot and give him time to duck before the bullet arrived. It would also help reveal the sniper’s location.

Hitting a moving target using a laser sight would be extremely difficult. The sniper would have to lead the subject and so the red dot would be projected in front of the target where it could easily be lost in the background.”

… to say nothing of the fact that a laser won’t help you aim if there is any wind…

The writer also gives mini reviews of several popular movies discussing just how scientifically accurate they are (usual answer: not very)

Thanks again to Harald/chk for the link…

… on BBC Radio 4 and you can listen to it online if you miss it live (or don’t live here). It’s not really a proper quiz show – it’s just an excuse for comedians to read out funny clips from odd UK newspapers and make fun of what has happened in the news that week. It may be hard to follow if you aren’t in or from the UK, but it is certainly more savagely satirical and entertaining than its American equivalent, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.for loans 10000 credit badunion air credit federal academymill accreditation0 credit interest offers cardcredit credit accept card cardsadvancial union creditservices americredit financialincorrect payments americredit Map

tinyurl.com is not the first tool I have run across to let you to shrink those massive web addresses into something manageable but it is the handiest. Just paste your URL like http://www.my-internet-isp.com/~myusername/ into the form on the site and it returns something like http://tinyurl.com/3 which you can paste into an email and which, when entered into a browser, will send you to the right place.

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The first example I have come across of its usefulness for crime prevention.

A small town next to a forest preserve, South Orange New Jersey is unique in many respects. Unfortunately for one con man, the town also has one thing many communities don’t: an active virtual community. When a door-to-door salesman’s visit left one resident suspicious, she did some digging and found out it was a scam. So she alerted the police and posted a warning to the town’s message boards. Several other residents had been victims, too, but word spread quickly. Six hours later, when the con man knocked on another door, the resident already knew his name and his spiel. She told him that the whole town was on to him, and the police had his description. I doubt he’ll bother South Orange again.

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What concerns me more is that I read this morning that in a study by the Postgraduate Medical Journal (reported by the BBC) many newly-qualified UK doctors were found to lack basic emergency knowledge about how to deal with unconscious patients, how to use an oxygen mask etc. Frankly I wonder how different the results would have been if the doctors tested were more senior…absolutly free ringtonesal harringtonand blackburn accrington notcarrington alfieaccringtoneverington alfredringtones alerthetherington alexa Map

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The good news – Cloudmark has a spam filter which is free for consumer use and which uses collaborative filtering. If you receive a spam, you indicate it as such and a master database is updated so nobody else has to receive it. The bad news? It only works at the moment with Outlook, which is more prone to spreading viruses than other email software and I therefore avoid.

Is there any free Windows software out there that works reasonably well to stop spam that anyone out there can recommend?

• the world trading system is “unfair”: the poor countries face protectionism that is more acute than their own;
• the rich countries have wickedly held on to their trade barriers against poor countries, while using the Bretton Woods institutions to force down the poor countries’ own trade barriers; and
• it is hypocritical to ask poor countries to reduce their trade barriers when the rich countries have their own.

How many of the above do you believe? Well, according to Jagdish Bhagwati, a Professor at Columbia University, writing in the Economist this week, none of these are valid.

In fact, asymmetry of trade barriers goes the other way. Take industrial tariffs. As of today, rich-country tariffs average 3%; poor countries’ tariffs average 13%. Nor do peaks in tariffs—concentrated in textiles and clothing, fisheries and footwear, and clearly directed at the poor countries—change the picture much: the United Nations Council for Trade, Aid and Development (UNCTAD) has estimated that they apply to only a third of poor-country exports. Moreover, the trade barriers of the poor countries against one another are more significant restraints on their own development than those imposed by the rich countries.

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An article from Telephony magazine in the US explains how local government engineers in the Appalachians are forming their own broadband carrier using wireless technology because the telco in the area wasn’t interested in providing it at a reasonable price.

Allegany County already had a complex broadband wireless network in place to serve its government offices and schools.

“Connecting the county’s sparse, widespread populace with fiber would have cost $180 million. By comparison, the radio buildout will cost the county between $2.9 million and $5 million, most of which the county plans to raise through state grants, Blank said. With that investment, Allconet will be able to offer 85% of the county’s population, 95% of its businesses and 100% of its business parks broadband access.

For consumers, each base station will transmit 360° on the 2.4 GHz unlicensed frequencies offering 3 Mb/s of capacity. For business customers, Allconet will transmit from the same base stations using the 5.8 GHz frequency to offer up to 60 Mb/s of capacity.”

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“Allconet will be able to lease a DS-3 [44.736 Mbps] for $3500 per month, while its equivalent in the high-tech corridor of northern Virginia runs $14,500. ”

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