These are the top 10 health conditions affecting Americans Through a first-of-its-kind measurement, we can pinpoint — by county — what is impacting Americans’ health. By Kate Morgan for Blue Cross Blue Shield Association There are more than 325 million … Continue reading →
DEAD MAN CALLS RIGHT BEFORE FUNERAL ___________, (2004) “Man Presumed dead calls daughter at wake” YAHOO NEWS, 9/17 P. 1-2 His sister identified his body at the morgue. The face was mashed up by the accident, but she believed that … Continue reading →
57 CHANNELS AND NOTHIN’ IS ON Bruce Springsteen’s song about cable channels is a pleasant surprise. He sings about having a cable television with 57 choices and there isn’t anything that he likes. So he does the sensible thing and … Continue reading →
ANOTHER WARREN BUFFETT SURPRISE Gardner, Adrienne (2005) Warren Buffett’s invisible empire BUSINESS WEEK, 5/30, 84-85 In the spring, Buffett arranges for his annual meeting to occur in Omaha Nebraska. Investors from all over the world go there for his sage … Continue reading →
RACIAL DIVISIONS Roughly 63% of the population is non-Hispanic whites. There are white Latinas and non-white Latinas. They count as people of color. All of this can complicate political analysis. Franz Fanon, a French Algerian intellectual said many things, but … Continue reading →
Pinker, Steven (2002) The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, New York: Viking, 509 pages. REPLAY Pinker attacks the modern/post modern academic holy trinity (empiricism, romanticism, and dualism.) In common terms, humans are a product of their environment; … Continue reading →
BOOK REVIEW ADDENDUM CHAOS THEORY: CATASTROPHIC THEORY A BOOK REVIEW Gladwell, Malcom THE TIPPING POINT (2000) Boston: Little Brown and Company. INTRODUCTION This is an excellent book featuring catastrophic theory, where small change in confluence with other stimuli summates to … Continue reading →
Meta-cognitive Analysis: An alternative to Literature Reviews and Meta-analysis for the Sciences and the Arts Introduction: The authors will introduce a new method of analysis that combines qualitative and quanatative methods to help researchers analyze data when they do not … Continue reading →
Skip to content. Home Current Issue New Articles Archive Submit Paper Content Alerts PLoSPLoS Biology Order Print Issues | Contact Us | Author Info | Reviewer Info | Journal Info | Ed Board | Help Volume 2 | Issue 8 | AUGUST 2005 Previous article | Next article SEARCH PLoS Medicine Advanced Search EssayThe Essay section contains opinion pieces on topics … Continue reading →
Young, A. (2010) The Politician, New York, St. Martin’s Press /replay This is an account of the rise and fall of vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party in 2004 who also ran for president in 2008. The author is … Continue reading →