This blog came by its name honestly. It started as 3oldmen.com, intended to be the blog of three of us retirees, but the other two didn’t go for the idea as much as they thought they might. But then I got going on the deceit of the Bush Administration in getting us involved in the […]
Author’s Statement of Bias: All of this scientific objectification involved in reviewing these studies is something of a regression for me. I left the world of hard science half my life ago, not in flight but rather because of a fascination with subjectivity. And as a practitioner, I found no real conflict between the two […]
There were two identical clinical trials of Abilify as an adjunct in the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder considered by the FDA in their approval evaluation. Subjects with a past history of poor responses to antidepressants during previous episodes were treated for eight weeks with a variety of SSRIs. Non-responders were then randomized and treated […]
So, I was watching this movie on television on a channel with commercials and that lady on the right was moping around trying to avoid falling in a hole [her "depression"]. Apparently, her antidepressant was helping, but she still had some very hard days. Then along comes Abilify, and she is able not to fall […]
Some sayings are so descriptive that they come to be a part of the language independent of their origins. The "elephant in the living room" is an Al-Anon saying to describe how some families react to having an alcoholic family member. It’s the major problem in the family, but it’s never discussed. They talk about […]
After my recent Seroquel obsession, I thought it would be prudent to let it alone for a while, sort of percolate in my mind and see what bubbled up. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out this business of Patents and Exclusivity [patent medicines…] thus far to no avail. So I was […]
Seismic wave propagation recorded on dense strong-motion seismograph networks in Japan [K-NET/KiK-net] Credit: “Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo†The animation of Seismic wave propagation recorded on K-NET/KiK-net By: Dr. Furumura Dr.Takemura Dr.Takemoto An visualized image of the seismic wave propagation of the off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, using the data recorded at […]
Tsunami simulation (prof. Furumura) Credit: “Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Prof. Takashi Furumura and Project Researcher Takuto Maeda†You can download from here The crustal change is calculated by referring to the source model of USGS, on the assumption of fault size 600km×250km and fault slip 17 m. The rise of seafloor surface causes […]
In Hiroshima’s shadow, let’s be honest about nuclear radiation Silicon Valley MercuryNews.com By Rahna Reiko Rizzuto 03/16/2011 Keiko Ogura writes me from Japan: "The number of hibakusha is increasing." The Japanese term, which was once used to refer to the atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has come to mean any person poisoned by […]
Seismic wave propagation recorded on High-Sensitivity seismograph network（Hi-net) Credit: “Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo†*Above credit must be clearly mentioned for any secondary use. Animation of the seismic wave propagation recorded on（Hi-net） The maximum acceleration（PGA）of the earth surface was set up by using Hi-net observation data (Note that the seismograph near the focal region […]