I went to a bookstore yesterday. It was one of the large firms that can be found all across the country. You’d recognize the name. I got caught up in the computer section reading a book on Ruby on Rails and, after a bit, felt the need to visit the bathroom.
The Taoist Dragon
I saw this image recently and liked it quite a bit. I was reading about the development of dualistic thinking. In the western tradition the idea of dualisms is thought to have been first developed by Herclitus. He is our “…you can’t step in the same stream twice…” [...]
Here is more on the cholesterol mysteries from the NY Times.To pick up a thread from my last post, a troubling factor is the manipulation of research results by the pharmaceutical companies.Apparently, contrary to custom, the company involved released the research results via press release and considerable time had gone by between when the study [...]
Anyone who knows me has heard my rant about the lack of evidence that Cholesterol at moderate levels has any relationship with heart disease. Now it seems that some vindication may be in the wind. The New York Times’s Alex Berenson reported that two widely read studies of cholesterol lowering drugs were [...]
I have finally gotten around to reading some of the documentation on blogging and how to set up a Word Press blog. It’s surprsingly easy to operate at a simple level and yet has many layers that can become quite complex. For example, I am using one of the many free themese available [...]