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Looks like University of Chicago and Northwestern Hospitals are involved too.
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CHICAGO — An organ donor infected four transplant patients with the AIDS virus in what a donor group says is the first such transmission in the U.S. in at least 13 years.
The transplants occurred in January at three Chicago hospitals. The patients infected with [...]

Ok, I have often said, repeating the sentiments of my impression of the consensus among military experts, that other navies are best compared to our Coast Guard. So, this surprised me greatly when I saw it, though probably not nearly as much as the commander of the Kitty Hawk:
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The uninvited guest: Chinese sub [...]

So, several years ago, I began working on a pecan pie recipe. My mother had given me one, and though good, I found it overpoweringly sweet. Originally, I had added some spices to it to detract from the sweetness. Nonetheless, the use of corn syrup in a home-made recipe continued to bother me (plus I [...]

Ok, looks like everything is up and running. The WordPress Import script leaves something to be desired (say, configurability?), so I had to reimport all the posts after noticing that it didn’t preserve the links, at all. Alas, that problem has been solved. Maybe I’ll try to organize the crap I did to make an [...]

I am moving away from this script to a proper content management system so that I can more easily keep up with my references and such. Hence, this feed will no longer be updated, and will soon be moved to http://blog.econtech.selfip.org/feed/atom/ . I am working on a way of transferring all of my content here [...]

In the Chronicle of Higher Education, John Gravois writes about a syndrome that’s so pervasive I’m not sure it can be called a syndrome so much as an occupational hazard: On a recent evening, Columbia University held a well-attended workshop…
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Alright, here’s a problem for all you bioinformatistas and inapproximabistas out there, which was inspired by this post of Eliezer Yudkowsky at Overcoming Bias (see also the comments there).
Let a DNA sequence be an element of {A,C,G,T}*, and suppose we’re allowed the following primitive operations: (1) insert a base pair anywhere we want, (2) delete [...]

Followup to: An Alien God, The Wonder of Evolution, Evolutions Are Stupid Yesterday, I wrote: Humans can do things that evolutions probably can’t do period over the expected lifetime of the universe. As the eminent biologist Cynthia Kenyon once put…
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