You can find out. Blaine Bettinger, the Genetic Genealogist has a fun little quiz.
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My recent post on a local “holistic” doctor brought a number of considered and interesting comments (all of whom are quite polite and patient, even when I disagree with them).
Some of the issues deserve fleshing out.
Heart disease is a major killer. Hypertension is one of the strongest risk factors for heart disease. In some […]

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I don’t much like The Huffington Post.
My dislike for The Huffington Post goes way, way back–all the way back to its very beginnings. Indeed, a mere three weeks after Arianna Huffington’s little vanity project hit the blogosphere, I noted a very disturbing trend in its content. That trend was a strong undercurrent of antivaccination blogging, […]

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While many laboratory experiments have shown that antibiotic resistance imposes a fitness cost on resistant bacteria, it’s far less clear if this is the case in natural populations. In Europe, the phasing out of a vancomycin analogue, avoparicin, resulted in a dramatic decrease in vancomycin resistance in enterococci bacteria, from roughly seven percent to about […]

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If you pay attention to the latest news about bird flu I will not be telling you anything new that there is a detailed description in The Lancet (a British medical journal) of a case in China of probable person to person transmission of bird flu. You can get details from the incomparable reporting of […]

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You may recall a prior communique in which I mentioned an upcoming project of the Borg.
The overlords are up to a new project which is intended to get some of our (meaning SB) readers to tell the rest of our (meaning SB) readers what hot stuff they should be reading on the SB. This […]

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Early in my relationship with yoga, I made my yoga practice a priority. I woke up in the early morning to get my practice in before the day got hectic. I made space in my cramped apartment. I practiced even when I didn’t feel like it.
We all know that creating physical space also helps […]

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Early in my relationship with yoga, I made my yoga practice a priority. I woke up in the early morning to get my practice in before the day got hectic. I made space in my cramped apartment. I practiced even when I didn’t feel like it.
We all know that creating physical space also helps […]

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There’s something about Indian music that makes me want to get up and dance like a wild thing. I’m always up for ecstatic dance/trance dance and/or movement to live drumming. It’s like a spark that ignites my body. And best of all — it’s loads of fun (not to mention good exercise).
Recently, I learned of […]

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There’s something about Indian music that makes me want to get up and dance like a wild thing. I’m always up for ecstatic dance/trance dance and/or movement to live drumming. It’s like a spark that ignites my body. And best of all — it’s loads of fun (not to mention good exercise).
Recently, I learned of […]

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