The Infrastructure Chronicles — Volume 11
There is a lot to be said about the history of the Panama Canal, a concept that piqued people’s imagination almost as soon as the Europeans landed on the isthmus in 1501. The first serious attempt to dig a canal was led by Ferdinand de Lesseps (honored here in a memorial in the Plaza de [...]
Spinal trauma
Ian Crouch at the New Yorker on rules for caring for your books, and his violations of such rules. I thought I was a bit obsessive, but I don’t actually dust my books, nor do I wash my hands thoroughly before reading. But I do avoid direct sunlight, and will try to avoid packing too [...]
Did women really choose their mates?
Satoshi Kanazawa, in the course of explaining why more intelligent men and women are more likely to cheat, reiterates a notion that′s become basic to evolutionary psychology. If sex and mating were an entirely or mostly male choice, and it happened whenever and with whomever men wanted, then it would be reasonable to conclude that [...]
Concise update on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
A free full text update was published in the Texas Heart Institute Journal. Several causal genes have been identified with over 100 mutations. Approximately 10% of cases represent phenocopy, clinically indistinguishable from the genetic cases. Read the rest.
Welcome to the Medical Malpractice Blog
Who is to blame for our medical malpractice crisis? Is it the attorneys, who advertise heavily to get patients to sue doctors? Are insurance companies to blame, paying multimillion-dollar salaries to their CEOs? Are patients to blame, taken in by unreasonable expectations and by deceptive advertising from plaintiff attorneys, who see malpractice suits as a [...]
