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Pretty hard with english names…
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In the sidebar, you will now find a link leading to my page I assembled on soup.io, that collects all my other feeds (2 blogs, one new tumblr-log, diggs, del.icio.us-links and Pownce posts) and displays them. Much better, you also get a combined feed of all my posts! I recommend you use that feed instead […]

Do you really have to set commas before which or that, or, as I know that there is not only one possible way to write in english, is there one school that says to set commas before each which or that? I’m just reading a text where this is done, and it’s confusing to no […]

2008 is the International Year of the Potato! Looking at the pictures of potato varieties makes me a) hungry and b) sad that Germany mostly has the same boring potatoes. I want red and violet ones too! Potatoes are great, and the base of most meals when I was young. That was the traditional lunch […]

Bausell points out that penicillin cures pneumonia even if you’re in a coma, but alternative medicine only seems to work when you are awake.
Science Based Medicine » Snake Oil Science
A very good blog article that talks about a book by Barker Bausell on the analysis of “snake oil medicine”, e.g. acupuncture or homeopathy in trials, […]

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Now you talk about “being aware of something”, but what is it really? I find it unfortunate that discussions of results in this area tend to wander into philosophical dispute way too fast. Really I don’t think the experiments described here can (yet) be interpreted in a stringent, conclusive way towards philosophical or ethical meaning. […]