The LA Times featured a story on a disturbing trend in California — the concentration of kids who have not been vaccinated in a relatively small number of [affluent] schools. While it is not news that vaccination rates are declining because of [unfounded] fears of autism, the LA Times offers an interesting analysis of risk [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Vaccinations and Autism*
Posted in adventures with child, autism on March 29, 2009 | 9 Comments »
RSS News
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I need to do some tinkering with my chosen news outlets. All the stories I read today inspired the same reaction (“Well, duh.“). I must be reading the wrong things because trying to be an informed citizen is increasingly irritating. A sampling:
Gaps between whites and blacks persist in the United States, despite the election of [...]
Blogging, Schlmogging
Posted in blogging on March 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Well, it finally happened. One of my random blog posts, written late at night with relatively little thought, is now a grant proposal. A small grant proposal to be sure, but a grant proposal nonetheless and a project with big money plans down the line and respected interdisciplinary collaborators.
Ha! Who says blogging doesn’t contribute to [...]
Grade Grubbing
Posted in teaching on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Strategies to avoid the parade of students looking for you to add a couple of points to the grades the TAs gave them on their papers, even after you explain to them that you and the TAs graded a proportion of the papers together and were within a point or two of one another in [...]
Just enough time and energy to link to…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
what she said.
