grant hutchison
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We used to have a Cat Lady at the end of our street. Our bird-feeders had to be defended by a ring of motion-activated ultrasound cat deterents. One...

Yeah. Once you get that alternative address into PayPal, it's so hard to get it out again. Click. Oops. You're lucky it's just snowblower parts. ...

I assure you that's just serial monotasking. The medical records provide off-line storage. With expert performance, and a single sick patient,...

I have received a royalty for a review article, from a journal that published only commissioned systematic reviews. That's very unusual, though, and...

The cat may have other ideas. Someone told a story in New Scientist, years ago, about how his cat had been gaining weight despite receiving the same...

I think that's just serial hemi-tasking.;) If you look at people who say they are multitasking, they're actually task switching, as you describe,...

Why are you ordering repair parts for Extravoice's snowblower? Grant Hutchison

I meant to say: You've only been married ten minutes and she's already adopted a cat? No wonder you're horrified. Grant Hutchison

In my part of the world, you'd need to check for a chip before adopting a random cat. Is that a thing in the USA? A woman once adopted my...

The growing tendency of universities to featherbed their students by insulating them from opinions that might offend them. This is not good life...

That's all a bit misleading. See your previous post - a vaccine is available, and is in use despite still working its way through the complex...

I've made a few random attempts to get into the current rash of superhero movies. No success. I can't really get engaged with the personal problems...

I can't be bothered searching down the original paper, but we really need to know some details of the subjects studied. If anyone ever tried to give...

The recent death of Stan Lee reminded me that superheroes have always been completely unfathomable to me. As a child I can remember borrowing a stack...

Many major grant-giving bodies for medical research require the applicants to include an estimate of the cost of open-access publication in their...

That would multiply my data usage by several orders of magnitude. Thanks, but I'll just recharge the phone when I need to. Grant Hutchison

This is one line of reasoning advanced, and it is sometimes standard practice in the pre-test interview to emphasize the "infallibility" of the...

If people want to speak about polygraphy, can I suggest moving over to a new thread I've just opened. The first post is my dissertation on the...

No phone reception. We have a whole network of favoured restaurants and hotels in the Scottish countryside, all lacking mobile coverage. It'll be a...

The specific instance under discussion, of Spacedude having to undergo a polygraph test administered as a condition of employment by a private firm...

Someone just ate my venison without noticing. Un-be-lievable. Couple at the next table in the hotel restaurant. Deep in conversation. Server arrives...

I'm reminded of something a paediatrician told me when I was a medical student. "At any given time, there are only about four things you really need...

Here's the problem with medicine, and in particular with dietary advice - it's never clear cut, and you can usually find a paper or two to support...

I keep getting LinkedIn invitations from people I know pretty well. Perhaps they view it as some sort of charitable outreach, but most of them are...

As I say (and as the articles indicate), this news has been around for a while, the evidence is notably imperfect, and advice on the use of soy...

Reproductive organs and babies and vegetarians. If there was also a threat to puppies, it would be a perfect storm of panic and outrage. Grant...

I think there are several clues in the article and the report of the article that show this is not some sudden acute medical emergency. We're told...

Well, there's Kawasaki disease, an autoimmune condition linked to soy consumption in infancy, which (as the name suggests) is more common in Japanese...

Now illegal. Grant Hutchison