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Gibson got into an oddly similar tangle recently with Sam Rubin, an entertainment reporter for the Los Angeles TV station KTLA. Rubin suggested to Gibson that some people think he should not have returned to acting "because of ... the remarks that were attributed to you." Not raising his voice, but leaning in toward Rubin, Gibson said, "That were attributed to me. That I didn't necessarily make. O.K.? But - and I gather you have a dog in this fight ... You have a dog in this fight? Or are you being impartial?" The implication was that if his interrogator was Jewish...
...response to the publication of a small study indicating that lithium helps people with ALS, the site evaluated the collective experience of its members who had taken the drug and determined that lithium didn't work - a conclusion it reached six months ahead of similar findings from conventional clinical trials. (In an interesting sign of the times, PatientsLikeMe presented its observations in December at the international ALS symposium in Berlin.) Free to patients, the for-profit venture sells pharmaceutical companies the blinded data it compiles from its members about drug safety and efficacy. (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...
What made the study possible in the first place was the fact that pretty much none of the forest in this part of the U.S. is virgin; it's been cleared for agriculture at various times, and then allowed to regrow in patches. The result: individual stands of similar trees ranging from about 225 years old to just five. "You could do this experiment by measuring a single stand of trees as long as possible," says Parker, "but a scientific career lasts only a few percent of the life of a tree." This way, he explains, you have a snapshot...
...bipartisan opposition across the Senate and the House. “Simply unacceptable,” said one Democratic Congresswoman; “[a] death march for the future of U.S. human space flight” a Republican Senator added. A former NASA administrator compared it unfavorably to a similar decision made by Richard Nixon, labeling it, “one of the most…strategically bankrupt…decisions in human history.” This is what you get when you try to destroy a program that has had nearly unanimous support in two Congresses: one controlled...
Last academic year, Yale took cost-cutting measures similar those FAS implemented, such as slowing faculty recruitment and freezing non-essential staff hiring...