Category: History
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John Snow, Henry Whitehead, and the Broad Street Pump
It’s been a while, hunh? Well here’s a short post on what I’m reading. I’m reading The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, and it concerns the cholera outbreak in the Soho area of London in 1854. If you’re an epidemiologist, you’ve heard of John Snow and you know about the Broad Street pump. This outbreak…
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Lincoln Quotes that Bush Should Know
A few weeks ago, I posted an article about a Fact Check article that lambasted Republicans for using a false Lincoln quote to support the suppression of dissent. Today, I ran across a post at Crooks and Liars that lists a number of Lincoln quotes posted by Nicole Belle that she says that Bush should…
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Lincoln Quotes that Bush Should Know
A few weeks ago, I posted an article about a Fact Check article that lambasted Republicans for using a false Lincoln quote to support the suppression of dissent.Today, I ran across a post at Crooks and Liars that lists a number of Lincoln quotes posted by Nicole Belle that she says that Bush should take…
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What the Detention Bill Means
There is a very nice post along with some great links and a very interesting discussion going on at A Blog Around the Clock dealing with the recent Denention Bill and what it means. I have little to add, so I’ll just encourage you to go over and check it out.
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Lincoln says: ‘Hang Them’?
I would like to urge all my readers (all two of you!) to start visiting FactCheck.org on a regular basis. This is a site run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center whose mission is to monitor the ‘accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches,…
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Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub
Hunh? Yeah, that was my first thought, too. But the author of this very interesting blog, Ed Darrell, was kind enough to refer to one of my posts and so I looked around his site a little. I like it! My first thought is that it rebuts the idea that the humanities and the sciences…
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Follow up to ‘Chronic Diseases’
Tara Smith took note of this New York Times article too, but she’s a much better writer than I am. You should check out her post. She also links to another nice analysis by Future Pundit. By the way, she’s an epidemiologist and lives in Iowa. That’s at least 2 points in her favor right…
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Chronic diseases: 1850 & now
Interesting article in today’s New York Times on the incidence of chronic diseases in the 1850s compared to today and the effects of nutrition while in utero on later health. Take a look, it’s a good read.
Steven Vlad 