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In 1979, Archie Cochrane published an essay chastising (not for the first time) his fellow doctors. “It is surely a great criticism of our profession,” he wrote, “that we have not organised a critical summary, by speciality or subspeciality, adapted periodically, of all relevant randomised controlled trials.” The idea of “organising a critical summary” reeks of manila folders and unimaginative paper-shuffling — unworthy of a man like Cochrane, who was …

This is quite a story. I'm not surprised Hollywood wants to turn it into a film. Fugees founder Pras Michel faces up to 20 years in prison after being convicted of conducting an illegal foreign influence campaign with Malaysian financier Jho Low. [direct link to source]

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Milford drew deeply once again on the fat brown hand-rolled cigarette, breathing in its mysteries, its promises, and its secrets.The combo continued to play, and a man's thick voice carried over the music and with the music, singing strange words that meant nothing and everything.Here come the big king snake,don't you hear him moanin'?Here come my little gal,Don't you hear her groanin'?Come gather round this old camp fire,come gather round …

Happy Thanksgiving!Here's Joan Leslie whipping up some mashed potatoes for a Thanksgiving feast.With gratitude for each of you, I send happiest Thanksgiving wishes to all my readers!Previous Hollywood Thanksgiving photos: Jeanne Crain, Angela Greene, Ann Blyth, Marsha Hunt, Hedy Lamarr, Phyllis Thaxter, Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, Ginger Rogers, Janis Paige, and Esther Williams.Tweet

This song is one of twelve original songs Irving Berlin wrote for the 1942 film “Holiday Inn,” which also included “White Christmas,” the best-selling single of all time. In this film, the main character Jim, played by Bing Crosby, has given up a life in show business to work on his farm. He decides to turn the farm into a country inn, open only for holidays. As he goes through …

We had a nice afternoon of rum exploration in Alameda a couple weeks ago at Forbidden Island, an event produced by the Rum Curious Club and sponsored by Flor de Caña rum. I’d attended a couple previous Rum Curious events locally that had different formats, but this one seems to be the right scope. This Happy Hour event had free registration and was held in the afternoon on Forbidden Island’s …

I’m thankful to the thousands of readers of this blog. Well, not the few submit troll comments from multiple pseudonymous handles, but the 99.9% who don’t. I’m thankful that they’ve stayed here even when events (as they do more and more often) send me into a spiral of doomscrolling and just subsisting hour-to-hour—when I’m left literally without words for weeks. I’m thankful for Thanksgiving itself. As I often try to …

This Thanksgiving, reflections on America, from the Global South. American Embassy Kyiv. Image credit paparazzza via Shutterstock © 2023. Like many other people in the Global South, I put my hope in ordinary Americans. Unlike us, Americans have more power and say in almost everything. Any of our countries can suffer under sanctions imposed by the US, or be invaded and occupied for decades with no recourse or justice. Any …

In my recent Boost Your Django DX update, I added a new chapter on debuggers. Here’s an extra technique I didn’t finish in time for the update, but I will include it in the next one. Django templates can be hard to debug, especially to figure out which variables are available after several levels of {% extends %} or {% include %} tags. The template engine doesn’t provide a built-in …

I continue to check my little dashboard of San Francisco COVID numbers each morning to figure out whether going into a cafe for professionally-made coffee is worth the risk or will be an embarrassing thing to explain to the medical professionals treating my long-COVID-induced heart condition[s]. This morning, my dashboard is b0rked. Good news: The California Department of Public Health has a new dashboard for COVID-in-wastewater data. Bad news: the …

Happy Thanksgiving! We are capping our epic Woks of Life Friendsgiving spread with their phenomenal Honey Glazed Cantonese Turkey which takes the classic flavors of Cantonese roast duck and applies it to turkey! A day before roasting, you marinate the turkey in a complex blend of bean and hoisin sauces, garlic, shallots, ginger, Shaoxing wine, and five-spice powder, letting the flavors meld overnight in the refrigerator. Roasting begins with the …

I recently took Dr. Sophie’s Pharos Course Critical Thinking Approaches for Genealogy. One of the things that she encouraged us to do is identify our biases, so we can find ways to address those and minimize the impact on our research. That led me to thinking about the cultural biases I may have as a Dutch researcher. I grew up with the idea that the Netherlands is a tolerant country. …

The first profession I remember I wanted to pursue as a kid was that of what I called an inventor. Building new and useful things for others seemed like fun. I was eagerly spending my time searching for expendable things within our household and recombining them to look like new machines and invented a purpose for them. Then, I learned about space travel. I don’t remember what age I was …

The Suffolk coastal town of Lowestoft has the distinction of being the most easterly settlement in the British Isles, and thus the first place in the UK to see the sunrise. Nearby Ness Point is the actual most easterly point in Britain, and there is a marker here, overlooking the shoreline, which celebrates this unique fact. Once famed for its fishing industry, Lowestoft still boasts a thriving fish market, which …