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Hi readers.  Sorry I’ve been very slow in posting the last two months.  My RSI kicked in badly early January and I chose to limit my computer usage to the absolute minimum for a while.  That, combined with a lot of work on various projects means that I haven’t been able to blog since around Christmas…

It will probably be another few months before I’m up to speed again.  I still haven’t recovered fully, but at least it is getting better…

Anyway, enough excuses!  I’m posting now just to share this nice list of talks I got by email today: Evolution in Health and Medicine.

I like the talks there, at least, and I hope you will also.

Stay tuned.  While the posting is at a very low rate right now, I do plan to pick up the speed over the coming weeks…

yup, that’s all I had to say right now :)

I set out to post an average of one post per day this year, and I was on track until a month ago.  After that, I pretty much just stopped blogging.  The number of projects I was working on pretty much got out of hand and I was too stressed and it has taken me the Christmas holiday to recover.  Still, I’m so far behind on the blogging, more than 20 behind with this post, that I doubt that I’ll make it for the new year resolution, but at least I am planning on getting back to blogging again now…

Remember SpaceShipOne that won the X-prize in 2004?  Well, Virgin Galactic reviled SpaceShipTwo yesterday.

With SpaceShipTwo, 6 passengers can get a short trip into space, and the plan is to sell such trips.  I don’t know what the prize will be, but I guess it is safe to say that I won’t be able to get a trip any time soon.

Still, it is pretty cool, and if they get to go higher than sub-orbital flight with SpaceShipThree, we might be looking at the beginning of affordable space flight pretty soon.

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Paleontology

• Paleontology references: Read this, not that (Laelaps)

Programming

• Save time and space by compressing data files (Revolutions)

Scientific life

• The complicated history of simple scientific facts (Ars Technica)
• Scientists behaving badly (Statistical Modeling)

Statistics

• Simpson’s Paradox not always such a paradox (Statistical Modeling)

Teaching

• Please, please don’t let this guy sit in on any of my classes! (Statistical Modeling)

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