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Jay Parkinson MD:

I am a new kind of physician. I strictly make house calls either at your home or work. Once you become my patient and I've personally met you, we can also e-visit by video chat, IM and email for certain problems and follow-ups. I'm based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. My fees are very reasonable...

I specialize in young adults age 18 to 40 without traditional health insurance. When you need more than I provide, i make sure you wisely spend your money and pay the lowest price for the highest quality....

I mix the service of an old-time, small town doctor with the latest technology to keep you and your bank account healthy.
Same day or next day appointments; 2 home or work visits per year; unlimited e-visits: $500/year.
- jim 9-29-2007 8:51 pm [link] [add a comment]

Do Migratory Birds 'See' The Magnetic Field?


- bill 9-27-2007 1:31 am [link] [add a comment]

jim/mark et all maybe this is old news

gphone: the bought Andriod in 05 (mobilr phone software), in July bought Grand Central Communications (same phone # for life), filed a patent for a new mobile payment technology.....


- Skinny 9-26-2007 6:52 pm [link] [add a comment]

Last week in Sehwan, a town in central Sindh, half a million Sufi pilgrams......They are followers, like most Pakistani , of the heterodox Barelvi school of Sunni Islam. And so they whirled, chantd prayers, blew kisses, and smoked massive quantities of dope.....We are so anti-Taliban, claimed Ahmed Bhutto, in a room thick with insence and rose petels. We stand for love, tolerance and the great infinity.....(the economist 9/16)

NICE!!!
- Skinny 9-26-2007 8:37 am [link] [add a comment]

Light on the science physics article about the confirmation of parallel universes:

Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists described by one expert as "one of the most important developments in the history of science".

The parallel universe theory, first proposed in 1950 by the US physicist Hugh Everett, helps explain mysteries of quantum mechanics that have baffled scientists for decades, it is claimed.

In Everett's "many worlds" universe, every time a new physical possibility is explored, the universe splits. Given a number of possible alternative outcomes, each one is played out - in its own universe....

...Commenting in New Scientist magazine, Dr Andy Albrecht, a physicist at the University of California at Davis, said: "This work will go down as one of the most important developments in the history of science."

- jim 9-24-2007 8:38 pm [link] [1 comment]

the faint praise gambit, well played

- mark 9-22-2007 2:14 am [link] [add a comment]

President Bush, who was asked about the Jena case during a Thursday news conference, said he understood the emotions and that the FBI is monitoring the legal proceedings. "The events in Louisiana have saddened me," he said. "All of us in America want there to be, you know, fairness when it comes to justice."
- jimlouis 9-21-2007 6:23 pm [link] [add a comment]

Mysterious crater in Peru.
- steve 9-20-2007 7:41 pm [link] [1 comment]

email blog from NOLA -- with a biting title for one post ... Nation-building over there so we don't have to do it over here
- mark 9-20-2007 4:45 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

Don't tase me, bro!
- mark 9-20-2007 3:38 pm [link] [2 comments]

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight tonight

The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the work of its columnists and to the newspaper’s archives. TimesSelect has been free to print subscribers to The Times and to some students and educators.

In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

- bill 9-20-2007 12:08 pm [link] [1 comment]

I have one leg that was chewed on, shaved and sewed up. And one that got popped out of it's socket, popped back in and taped to my side for the next 2 weeks. At least I'm on pain killers.

who am i?
- bill 9-20-2007 12:09 am [link] [10 comments]

Just returned from a picnic gathering of friends to watch the Vaux Swifts enter the chimney of Chapman School tonight

The Audobon Society of Portland claims that Chapman School houses the largest known roost of migrating swifts in the world.

- steve 9-18-2007 7:28 am [link] [7 comments]

linda is prob rite but i hope not.....
can woman play in MLB, or is mens only?
- linda 9-17-2007 4:51 am [link] [1 comment]

25 more minutes of Katrina
- jimlouis 9-14-2007 4:53 am [link] [add a comment]

web urbanist
- dave 9-13-2007 2:54 am [link] [2 comments]

alex the parrot
- dave 9-12-2007 10:15 pm [link] [add a comment]

Dog walking: good for you, good for your pet.


Not so good for birds, apparently.

Australian researchers have found that walking leashed dogs along woodland paths leads to a significant reduction in the number and diversity of birds in the area, at least over the short term.

Peter B. Banks and Jessica V. Bryant of the University of New South Wales surveyed birds along woodland trails near Sydney shortly after dogs were walked on them or after people walked alone. All kinds of dogs were involved, big and small, purebred and mutt. As a control, they also surveyed birds on trails that no one, human or canine, had recently walked on.

Dr. Banks said the study was an outgrowth of his interest in predator-prey interactions. “Here you have a predator that is being walked through the bush quite regularly,” he said.

The researchers chose trails in places where dogs were banned and in other areas where dog walking was common, expecting different results in each. “We thought that where there was regular dog walking birds would get used to it,” Dr. Banks said. “Well, they didn’t.”

Regardless of the type of area, dog walking led to a 35 percent reduction in the number of bird species and a 41 percent reduction in overall bird numbers, compared with the control. (People walking alone caused some disturbance, but less than half that caused by people with dogs.)

- bill 9-11-2007 4:58 pm [link] [2 comments]

Lipkin set aside the bits and pieces of DNA from the bees and started sorting through what was left, searching for material found only in beehives infected by CCD. What they found, eventually, was a bee-killing virus first identified in Israel.

These findings have now been published online by the journal Science.

But both Pettis and Lipkin are quick to note that they have yet to prove conclusively that the Middle Eastern virus they found is the sole cause of CCD.

"Right now, we are claiming it is a marker in Colony Collapse Disorder," Pettis explains. "We have shown that it is present when colonies are collapsing, but we haven't shown cause and effect."

- bill 9-11-2007 4:21 pm [link] [add a comment]

waterproof (birdwatching?) gloves


- bill 9-09-2007 8:20 pm [link] [1 ref] [2 comments]

create your own snowflake
- steve 9-05-2007 7:43 am [link] [add a comment]

Many say the incident might not have happened if not for the nooses
- jimlouis 9-04-2007 7:42 pm [link] [add a comment]

giant spider web
- steve 9-02-2007 8:39 am [link] [2 comments]