There's a difference between being offended by everything and being offended by appropriate things. Sexism, racism, and homophobia are appropriate things to be offended by, because the marginalization of people based on variables outside their control is wrong. Being on the internet doesn't mean checking your own…

The video is cool... and he tells you to go read Kahneman's book... but the whole video is essentially a distillation of the first two chapters of the book, including some of the same examples. Which makes it a lot less creative, and kind of rude to Kahneman, whose done enough for us through his research (he and…

Excuse me, I need to go un-like any pictures of my friends' kids...

I hate to be that guy... but Antabuse was isolated in 1948. It suppresses acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (the enzyme that breaks down acetaldehyde, which is what alcohol is broken down into that makes you flush and get sick), and is used in treatment for alcohol... the original idea was to make the alcohol repulsive, but…

They're going to build Google Wireless. It will have unlimited data, fast download speeds, cost a third of what everyone else charges... but it will only be in Kansas City.

Like the dye packs they put in stacks of cash, with indelible ink. Fill a paintball with some of that. Shoot bad people (repeatedly?). Find them later covered in red and blue police paint!

What does that mean, "of course the editor is a woman?" A guy never would have been offended by this? You'd be surprised. A lot of people have sex with someone and actually respect them in the morning (rather than being a tired line), which usually means you don't think of them as a conquest or rate and critique their…

Can I load them into a sling shot and fling them shoddy structures?

You can find cast iron tea pots in the same size for around $20. $40 will get you a fancy one (bigger, better designs, etc).

Just get some plastic flasks and tuck them into your belt on your back like a normal person!

That blurry man there is Stringfellow Hawke III.

"This headshot will cost you $6,000. Oh, you don't need a professional camera? Tell you what, I'm about to make $6,000 off some idiot, how about I buy it off you for $2,000?" BEST JOB EVER.

The guy who plays "the young Tom Hanks" in movie flashbacks?

I don't really know. Certainly there's a financial incentive to provide treatment, because physicians are paid for procedures. An outcomes-based approach may or may not change this, depending on how the outcome is measured (since in the patient-focused choice the patient often dies earlier). Making it harder to sue…

No one (at least that I work with) begrudges anyone the right to carry out their final days in the way they wish. The problem is that people don't know what they're choosing when they choose treatment, and the difference between what they're told and what physicians know is why physicians so often choose to forego it…

... and the follow up, "Doctors Really Do Die Differently," which includes more numbers.

There was a story going around from the WSJ called, "Why Doctors Die Differently," that was passed around the people at my hospital because we live through this everyday. Unless you know them really well, a doctor's not going to tell you what they'd do in your position. They're going to tell you the safe choice, which…

I don't know why anyone would want a UI. The antibiotics make my stomach hurt.

Right, my point wasn't that population levels were equal - that would be a silly point to try and prove. I was just speaking to the characterization of the West coast (and its 50 million inhabitants) as "a wasteland." That's simply factually incorrect.