There are 11 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks […]

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I’ve been away from the blog for a while, working on fellowship applications and riding the wave of the ICU. Thank you for your patience, as ever.
As you might remember from my days as an intern, I used to love the ICU. That love is no longer: doing procedures to people whose fate is inevitable […]

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This article originally appeared on the old bioephemera September 9, 2007.

Syphilitic skull with three trephine holes and osteomyelitic lesions
Hunterian museum
One of my favorite London experiences was my visit to the Hunterian museum. If only I had more time there! I liked it so much, I returned on my last day, procrastinating my departure for Heathrow […]

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Imagine that you are a bad guy running from the law, and the sheriff is about to catch up to you. If you want, you can be Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid or any other charismatic bad guy. Or maybe you’re a wizard in Harry Potter and Dementors are about to catch up to […]

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One of the most important things you are going to do during the upcoming SfN Annual Meeting in Washington DC is to stroll around NIH row. Right?
I have a few thoughts for the trainees after the jump.
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Is ready for reading at Submitted to a Candid World.
I never thought I’d see the day when a Tangled Bank host would compare PZ Meyers to John McCain, but I admit, it was tastefully done.
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Philosophers have wondered for centuries whether someone who was blind from birth would “see” the world in the same way as people with normal vision. After all, there’s much more to perceiving the world than properly functioning eyes. Think of it: otherwise all you’d need to do is strap a camcorder to a car and […]

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Chorus of demands to let doctor Bernhard Moeller stay:
The Rudd Government is under pressure from all fronts, even Labor colleagues, to overturn a decision denying German doctor Bernhard Moeller permanent residency in Australia because his son Lukas has Down syndrome.
The Immigration Department this week rejected Dr Moeller’s application for permanent residency, saying the potential […]

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Metformin is about as simple as a drug gets:
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