http://medicalcenter.web.id medical center information, medical center, health care, disease, medical journal Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:39:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://medicalcenter.web.id/blogging/saturday-night-34.html DDi reports: Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Borders Group Inc. announced that it plans to offer Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. products in most of its 500 stores, according to Bloomberg.com. The decision to dedicate an entire section within most of its locations to Build-A-Bear items—including kits to make stuffed animals, books and DVDs associated ... http://medicalcenter.web.id/blogging/today-in-mission-drift.html The WSJ reports German Politics Hit by Blowback Over Sarrazin. The German government’s effort to oust a senior Bundesbank official for publishing controversial racial theories isn’t going at all well.Yay!A day after the German central bank asked President Christian Wulff to dismiss the official for racially charged remarks, it was becoming ... http://medicalcenter.web.id/blogging/sarrazin-swamped-with-support.html Nothing much for me to add, other than it's good to see that at least a few of the French are up in arms about it. Oh, and the cameraman's has received death threats - who could have seen that coming? This is related: Gaddafi: Europe will 'turn black' unless EU ... http://medicalcenter.web.id/blogging/france.html John Derbyshire points out the completely liberal nature of Glenn Beck's opinions and mode of operating, noting that it just about has to be this way, as the moment Glenn Beck starts offering genuinely rightist views is the moment he gets shut out of the airwaves. Consider Derb's list of ... http://medicalcenter.web.id/blogging/why-glenn-beck-spouts-pc-nonsense.html Businessweek - now owned by Bloomberg, a good reason not to read it - discusses Shrinking Societies: The Other Population Crisis. Nothing written there will be unfamiliar to anyone here, but along with the story is a slideshow listing the top 25 fastest shrinking countries. Japan, of course, tops the ... http://medicalcenter.web.id/blogging/fastest-shrinking-countries.html I received the following email from a German friend of mine, whom I met and hung around with in Salamanca, Spain, in the summer of 2000, when we were both studying there. He's now in his late 20s and studying for a Ph.D. in a social science field in Britain. ... http://medicalcenter.web.id/blogging/letter-from-germany-on-sarrazin.html James Edwards nails the Glenn Beck rally. A sample: It was about “restoring honor” or something, whatever that’s supposed to mean.Or it was a way of supporting the troops, depending on which day you listened to Beck. Then it turned into a rally to reclaim the Civil Rights movement, ... http://medicalcenter.web.id/blogging/the-death-rattle-of-mainstream-conservatism.html Nature News reports on an easy way to boost a paper's citations: include more references. A long reference list at the end of a research paper may be the key to ensuring that it is well cited, according to an analysis of 100 years' worth of papers published in the journal ... http://medicalcenter.web.id/blogging/scientists-scratch-each-others-backs.html Robert Wenzel of Economic Policy Journal recommends Gonzalo Lira's excellent piece on hyperinflation, which we discussed here. Wenzel points out a couple of things he believes could be different in a U.S. hyperinflation as compared to that which Chile suffered. The one note of caution I must add is that ... http://medicalcenter.web.id/blogging/a-note-on-hyperinflation.html