I’m not here to criticize Starbucks. The only time I criticized them at all was after 9/11 when firefighters went into a Starbucks next to the World Trade Center to try and get some water and the manager and employees were so paralyzed by their rules and structure and general lack of creative reflex they couldn’t figure out how not to charge rescue workers to help people save...
read moreIn the more urbane sectors of New York and Los Angeles and Austin or wherever you find Whole Foods–levels of gastronomic consciousness and sufficient disposable income (rich, liberal, anti-science) you'll find people on a cleanse diet.Cleanses and their cousins, colonics, have about as much medical merit, declared Michael Gershon, a professor of pathology and cell biology at Columbia...
read moreWhat happens if you are a Yogi living in Seattle (or Portland, or San Francisco - wherever progressive pseudoscience crackpots feel welcome and included) who discovers that 'proof' is more complicated than mumbo-jumbo on your mystical website? read...
read moreThe world really stinks today. We have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc.Oh wait, no we haven't. But if you are an anti-science pessimistic hippie of the 1960s (or today, though their descendants only forecast doom for poor people, they will still have their iPads) you can be forgiven for thinking all that was going to have...
read moreIt's kind of meta that continuous "machine learning" using artificial neural networks (ANNs) may improve the ability to predict survival in patients with advanced brain cancers.But there you go. The pilot study used data on patients treated for advanced brain cancer at several hospitals. The results showed that ANNs beat standard prediction models for predicting patient survival - 84%...
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