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by certmd 6y ago
I also found her Introduction and Translator's note very good. She acknowledges her goal was not the most direct word for word accuracy but from what I remember more the general feel to how things would have been interpreted by the au
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by certmd 6y ago
Very much looking forward to Emily Wilson's forthcoming translation. She translated the Odyssey a few years ago, still in verse but with less stilted language, definitely makes it more accessible. Looking forward to reading it to my
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by certmd 6y ago
Probably the same way a medical article ends up on the front page of hacker news. People have interests outside their area of expertise. Which is good!
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by certmd 6y ago
Love the first comment on the youtube video: "RIchard Feyman's wife: "WHY did you not take the trash out yet?!" Richard proceeds to go on a long tirade about electromagnetic forces, gravity, string theory etc. until the
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by certmd 7y ago
From the article (as well as other places I've read similar things). "Why did so many young adults die? As it happens, young adults have the strongest immune systems, which attacked the virus with every weapon possible—including c
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by certmd 7y ago
His pieces are usually entertaining. He had a recent one about the Masters golf tournament that was hilarious. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/inside-the-cul...
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by certmd 7y ago
By all means, massage your breasts, but I'm not so sure your hypothesis holds up. The paucity of cancers of skeletal muscle is more likely due to cell type (terminally differentiated without much turnover) rather than vascular supply.
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by certmd 7y ago
Matt Levine's take from a few days ago. As usual, humorous and insightful. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-24/don-t-...
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by certmd 7y ago
C-section. n=1
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by certmd 7y ago
My younger brothers are identical twins, one born vaginally and the other 20 min later via C-section. I've always said they'd be good data for these type of studies. Anecdotally, they don't really have big differences regard
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by certmd 7y ago
I found the book "Our Mathematical Universe" by Max Tegmark, a physicist, a pretty good read. His idea is basically that the universe isn't explained by math, it IS math. To get to what he means by that he provides a good re
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by certmd 7y ago
I think a reading of the relevant passage from David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" (from 1996) re: video conversations is appropriate here. http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527
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by certmd 7y ago
Not so sure medicine is afraid to use the word "nuclear". Nuclear medicine a field that patients deal with regularly from getting bone density scans for osteoporosis, thyroid and cardiac imaging, etc. In the US at least the name
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After men in Spain got paternity leave, they wanted fewer kids(qz.com)
61 points by certmd 7y ago|45 comments
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by certmd 8y ago
Matt Levine on Slack direct listing from a few weeks ago... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-11/direct...
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by certmd 8y ago
While many on this forum may understand why what this analysis shows is not good science, the article does a poor job of explaining why finding positive results one wasn't originally looking for may not be reliable. I can imagine a non
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by certmd 8y ago
Cannot strongly recommend enough "The Mind Illuminated" by John Yates. https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati... It's been discussed on HN before (it's how I found it a few years ag
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Sloan Kettering’s Cozy Deal with Startup Ignites a New Uproar(nytimes.com)
1 points by certmd 8y ago|0 comments