Have we all seen the Lindsay Lohan smackdown letter? It's the greatest thing EVER! [link]

I'm a petty petty woman to read that and snicker, GC

There are so many interesting studies coming out on doctors and pharmaceutical companies these days.

Not just practicing doctors. Researchers too. I love the meta-analyses where they organize drug studies according to which drug company sponsored them. Turns out that the best drug is the one produced by the sponsoring company. This makes it easy to show that drug B is always better than drug A, and drug C is always better than drug B and, oh yeah, drug A is always better than drug C.

It's like science from the University of Escher.

We have an adjunct progessor from a pharmacuetical company who buys her students a lunch on the company. She teaches suturing and also... sells sutures.

Um. That would be professor.

Turns out that the best drug is the one produced by the sponsoring company.

SHOCKING!

Oh, Lindsey. Now she has a Problem.

Via Defamer, the most awesome bitchslap to a ridiculously spoiled Hollywood starlet I've ever seen: >[link]

It's good for a star to not be so big s/he can't be told off. It's when they can't be told off that they end up freaks or dead. 5 bucks the guy told his assistant, "And leak this letter, too."

This is the Colbert Report! >[link]

Oh my word. That's the cutest thing I've seen in a long time. LOVE!

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Megan, don't feel bad! I walked out of the bathroom with my skirt tucked into my underpants just last week! My friend Anuradha saw me just as I was realizing it and kind as herself is, she pointed and laughed. I managed to get myself sorted before anyone else saw. I had to laugh too; it's just classic. WTF, I have a nice tush.

The blasted BMI says I'm fucking obese. WTF. I'm rounder than necessary, sure, but seriously now. Obese? I don't think so.

Does anyone here subscribe to the journal Nature? I want to, but purely out of curiousity, and it's expensive, so I'm wondering if it's worth it, or if everything cool will eventually trickle down to the "popular" science mags anyway.

Note to self: stop buying vintage clothes on eBay. Too much money and sometimes they don't even fit, because women were smaller back then or something.

Zenkitty, I have decided the problem with vintage clothes is my lack of Proper Undergarments. Anything that fits in the waist is too big in the chest, because I'm not wearing a girdle and a bullet bra.

Does anyone here subscribe to the journal Nature? I want to, but purely out of curiousity, and it's expensive, so I'm wondering if it's worth it, or if everything cool will eventually trickle down to the "popular" science mags anyway.

Most of the articles themselves are hard for a nonspecialist to understand. So the people who are reading the first paper in an issue probably can't understand the third paper. Or I may be projecting, because I can never understand more than one paper in an issue.

But the cool stuff usually gets a more accessible editorial summary, and those summaries are usually freely available on the web at nature.com or if you really only want things from the flagship journal, nature.com/nature.

All universities have an online subscription, so I bet that a Buffista could set you up with any paper you can't get for free.