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Humor Sports

The Top Ten Reasons Why the Yankees Choked

Preempting what will almost certainly be the Top Ten on David Letterman’s show is this list of the Top Ten Reasons Why The New York Yankees Choked. My favorite? Clearly it has to be this one: Detroit Tigers tricked the Yankees by playing devious “fundamental baseball” That about sums it up. Damn those Tigers for […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Death by alternative medicine: Who’s to blame?

One of the more onerous duties I have as faculty at our cancer center is to “show the flag” at our various affiliates by attending their tumor boards. I say “onerous” not so much because the tumor boards themselves are onerous but rather because traveling to them cuts into my already limited time for research […]

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Medicine

Pediatric Grand Rounds

The latest installment of Pediatric Grand Rounds has been posted at Emergiblog. This time around, all hail Mickey!

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EneMan History Humor

Archeological evidence most unexpected

Pretty much everyone knows about the existence of the fabulous cave paintings dating back 30,000 years in places such as Lascaux and Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc in France. In these caves, our forebearers used the walls as their canvases to paint amazingly vibrant and detailed paintings of animals and various other things. The paintings are beautiful, some of […]

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Sports

Stick a fork in ’em

The Yankees are done. Tigers win 8-3 The Yankees go home. Quoth Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman: “I’m stunned,” New York general manager Brian Cashman said. “This team fooled me to some degree. Detroit was on top of their game and we weren’t, and that combination was lethal for us. I’m disappointed where we’re at […]