Re: fw: Silence From Rep. Bachmann As Vaccine Challenge Expires

2011-09-26 Thread Dana
I know nothing about the syndrome or its causes really, but aren't we talking about a flu vaccine? Unless there are really excellent reasons to worry about dying of pneumonia, this strikes me as a case where even mistaken fears may outweigh the benefit just based on peace of mind. One the one han

Re: Fox admits it panders to the Far Right

2011-09-26 Thread Robert Munn
Dude, Fox has been caught in a massive spying scandal that has rocked their organization worldwide. Their pants are on fire and they are trying to figure out how to avoid a ratings implosion when the scandal widens. You think they weren't spying before Obama? On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Vive

Health 2.0

2011-09-26 Thread Gruss Gott
I'm out here in San Francisco at the health 2.0 conference and wow! Silicon valley is going all in on health care. What a great conf when you get the CEO of aetna, the head of ONC and the head of CMMI all in the same room debating how to lower system cost, increase quality, and increase healt

Re: Cool pendulums

2011-09-26 Thread Vivec
Fantastic patterns. Surprising what can exist naturally just following the laws of Physics. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive:

Fox admits it panders to the Far Right

2011-09-26 Thread Vivec
Far Right...also known as crazy extremists :-) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/26/roger-ailes-fox-news-course-correction_n_980850.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp0009 "He made a big admission to Newsweek, saying that he has made a "course correction" at Fox News, veering it away from the hard-ri

Re: Cool pendulums

2011-09-26 Thread Gruss Gott
Awesome! On Sep 26, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > From an email this morning: > > You may recall from a Mechanics course that the period of a pendulum is > proportional to the square root of the length of the line suspending the > weight - i.e., the longer the pendulum, t

Re: Cool pendulums

2011-09-26 Thread Judah McAuley
That makes me very happy. Thank you, Jerry. Judah On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > From an email this morning: > > You may recall from a Mechanics course  that the period of a pendulum is > proportional to the square root of the length of the line suspending the >

Re: fw: Silence From Rep. Bachmann As Vaccine Challenge Expires

2011-09-26 Thread Larry Lyons
Given his knwoldege of the subjec t. I'd go with what your neurologist says. >I supposedly had GB (french polio) when I was 2. All of my symptoms >(slowly stopped walking, eventually stopped breathing) were similar >and thus that was my diagnosis and treatment. > >Recently I was seeing a neurol

Re: fw: Silence From Rep. Bachmann As Vaccine Challenge Expires

2011-09-26 Thread Larry Lyons
same rational with the anti-vaccine fanatics. Here's a good discussion of the issue. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/vaccine-schedules-and-infant-mortality-a-false-relationship-promoted-by-the-anti-vaccine-movement/ It boils down to the two happening close together in time and so

Re: Cool pendulums

2011-09-26 Thread Ras Tafari
thanks :) that was cool! On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > From an email this morning: > > You may recall from a Mechanics course  that the period of a pendulum is > proportional to the square root of the length of the line suspending the > weight - i.e., the longer

Cool pendulums

2011-09-26 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
>From an email this morning: You may recall from a Mechanics course that the period of a pendulum is proportional to the square root of the length of the line suspending the weight - i.e., the longer the pendulum, the slower it swings. Harvard students built a device with a series of 15 pendulu