I feel like there's a dark energy joke hiding in there somewhere.
Heh.
Book ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I feel like there's a dark energy joke hiding in there somewhere.
Heh.
I am the vindow viper.
Have you come to vipe our vindows?
Oh god. I just sent out a thing to many colleagues about the Alzheimer's Walk I'm doing, and now I'm scared they are going to want to talk to me about my father, and I'm just not into that. Which is why I didn't send out anything broadly last year! Ugh, am now scared.
...and two people made gifts already. So nice!
Meta analysis shows modest but real effect of acupuncture in treating chronic pain.
Huh - that's very surprising (since no individual well-designed study has shown an effect). I'm curious what the numbers are for "real" meridian-points acupuncture vs random-needles-anywhere acupuncture. (I'm willing to believe that poking people with needles has a physiological effect, I'm really not willing to believe that it's because the needles are manipulating the flow of chi.)
I don't know how it works, but it has been mad effective for treatment of Beau's skin-related allergies. Seriously.
Today, I am a fountain pen.
Jessica goes Old School, yo.
My hand to God, that's exactly what I was going to post, and then I thought, "Way too dorky and obscure. Who else would even remember it, let alone get it?"
Truly, y'all are my tribe.
I wonder if the "sham acupunture" mentioned is random-needles-anywhere acupuncture, or what. If anyone has access, the full write up is here: [link]
Also, question for the mathically inclined:
I've now gone from nice guy and all to deluded fanboy because I don't repudiate Nate Silver for having at some point in the run-up to the 2010 midterm elections given the Democrats a 20% chance at retaining the House -- both Silver and I are clearly Dem-pandering morons because the Dems always had zero chance of retaining it.
I *think* he's confusing the real-world likelihood of capitalizing on a 20% chance of success with the statistical probability, which I don't know has ever been zero for any election ever in US history, but I'm not sure my guess is correct, and, if correct, I'm not sure I'm explaining it right.
Help a deluded fanboy, please?