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		<title>Vietnam!</title>
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At long last, all of our Vietnam photos are uploaded here.  It was a great trip, and we had an especially great time exploring all of the culinary variety of the country.  The Vietnamese are serious about food, and it was an adventure finding all the favorite local spots to eat.  We had great success [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stupidity is expensive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story and its close cousins have already been followed extensively in the blogosphere, skeptical and otherwise (see here and here for examples), but I&#8217;m glad to see CNN picking it up, even if it underplays the huge negative consequences.
What it boils down to is that governments around the world - including Thailand, Mexico, and Iraq -  have been duped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edscotw.com/2010/02/17/stupidity-is-expensive/</link>
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		<title>Uh oh &#8211; new hobby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if I needed something else to suck up my time.  I&#8217;ve been inspired by the fabulous idea pictured here.  I kind of like the idea of using my own slides instead of buying used, so this gives me an excuse to dust off the old film camera and take lots more pictures.  I figure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edscotw.com/2010/02/17/uh-oh-new-hobby/</link>
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		<title>Awesome&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is great news.  It&#8217;s a little late in coming &#8211; well, actually a lot.  But truth and the self-correcting nature of scientific inquiry have finally won a little victory.  There has still been irreparable harm done to autism research and treatment as a whole, not to mention the fight against vaccine-preventable illness, but hopefully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edscotw.com/2010/02/02/awesome/</link>
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		<title>Penny wise, pound foolish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NEJM had an interesting study this month on managing health care expenditures.  The prevailing wisdom has been that cost-sharing (making people more reponsible for the cost of their care) reduces expenditures while not harming health in the general population.  This study looked at a population of Medicare recipients and found otherwise.
When you raise the copays for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edscotw.com/2010/01/28/penny-wise-pound-foolish/</link>
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		<title>A new women&#8217;s health movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great gutsy opinion piece from Barbara Ehrenreich of the LA Times.
Choice quote:
What we really need is a new women&#8217;s health movement, one that&#8217;s sharp and skeptical enough to ask all the hard questions: What are the environmental (or possibly lifestyle) causes of the breast cancer epidemic? Why are existing treatments such as chemotherapy so toxic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edscotw.com/2009/12/02/a-new-womens-health-movement/</link>
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		<title>Happy Halloween!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people go crazy with Christmas decorations, a rare few do both Thanksgiving and Christmas, but it&#8217;s only the very elite hard core decorator who goes for the end-of-year trifecta of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.  Our across-the-street neighbor is one of these people.  Behold:

The picture can&#8217;t really do it justice.  The skeleton inside the glowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edscotw.com/2009/10/31/happy-halloween/</link>
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		<title>Plugs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah &#8211; a topic near and dear to my heart.  Like many of you who have traveled around with world with electronic equipment, I&#8217;ve been flabbergasted by the panoply of power plugs I have to navigate to get some juice back into my gadgets.  110V?  240V?  Two prong?  Three poles?  It&#8217;s enough to drive a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edscotw.com/2009/10/29/plugs/</link>
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		<title>Thank you, Wired</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before this theme gets too old, I want to reserve a special shout-out for Wired Magazine.  Thank you, Wired, for having the bravery and integrity to do what the rest of mainstream media was unwilling to do: put  &#8220;Vaccines don&#8217;t cause autism&#8221; on your cover, highlighted in fluorescent green, for the whole world to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edscotw.com/2009/10/28/thank-you-wired/</link>
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		<title>Thank you, Al Franken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re going to continue today&#8217;s theme of thanks by sending some gratitude towards Minnesota.  Just like every other state in the nation, Minnesota is faced with a shortage of primary care physicians.  It doesn&#8217;t take a rocket scientist to figure out one of the big reasons: a graduating medical student has little reason to become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edscotw.com/2009/10/28/thank-you-al-franken/</link>
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