Monthly Archives: August 2012

Cancer 2

Posted on August 31, 2012 by the archivist

Continued from yesterday…. After I found one photo of a cancer cell online, I started finding a lot more. Many of them were pictures of dividing cells joined by double cones, much like my constant A/V ratio cells (shown at … Continue reading →

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Cancer 1

Posted on August 31, 2012 by the archivist

I’ve long believed that the war on smoking will only ever end when it’s finally and conclusively proved that smoking doesn’t cause lung cancer, and that something else does. The police are looking for a serial killer, and they’ve arrested … Continue reading →

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Exhaustion

Posted on August 30, 2012 by the archivist

H/T Harley for the article by Chris Snowdon in the Adam Smith Institute: This is not the first time tobacco prohibition has raised its head this year. The advocacy journal Tobacco Control kicked things off with a special edition featuring … Continue reading →

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Crazy

Posted on August 29, 2012 by the archivist

Tobacco Control must be crazy. That’s what I thought today. I’ve been slowly reading a History of Rome for the past few weeks. I’ve got past the point where the expanding Roman empire united Italy, and acquired Sicily and Sardinia … Continue reading →

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Heading For A Fall

Posted on August 28, 2012 by the archivist

Tobacco Control see their antismoking mission as something holy, and comparable to Jesus driving the moneylenders from the temple, only a notch or two holier than that. Ridding the world of tobacco is like ridding the world of moneylenders, or … Continue reading →

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The House of Life

Posted on August 27, 2012 by the archivist

I’ve had one of my mathematical days today, and my head is full of sines and cosines. I did what I wanted to do, which was to build a computer simulation model of a 2D cell growing and dividing, in … Continue reading →

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Smoke Gets In Your Baby

Posted on August 26, 2012 by the archivist

H/T Harley, I’ve been musing over this all day, on and off : Atherosclerosis in children can begin in the womb as passive tobacco smoke crosses the placenta, leading to low birth-weight and impaired lung development. The condition can lead … Continue reading →

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Smoking Hot Harry

Posted on August 25, 2012 by the archivist

Not reading any newspapers, or watching any TV, it’s a bit hard for me to keep up with all the gossip and scandal (as if I wanted to anyway). But it seems that Prince Harry has been snapped doing something … Continue reading →

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No Smoking in Antiquity

Posted on August 24, 2012 by the archivist

I’ve been slowly reading a History of Rome over the past month or two. It’s fascinating, and it’s regularly sent me off searching online for ancient fortresses like the acropolis of Corinth, or the Lacinian promontory on the toe of … Continue reading →

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ISIS Survey Data Entry

Posted on August 23, 2012 by the archivist

I’m happy to report that online data entry for completed ISIS paper questionnaires is now working, thanks to Wiel Maessen (and also Morgan Toal). I’ll be sending out the address of the site, along with usernames and passwords, to all … Continue reading →

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