Tag Archives: The Atlantic

Jim Fallows on Throwing Like a Girl

[image via Andrew Side A] Two things: 1. Natural movements aren’t always innate. 2. We need to stop with the ‘throwing like a girl’ talk. Jim Fallows: A surprising number of people think that there is a structural difference between … Continue reading

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Take Your Medicine with a Grain of Salt

[via Savage Chickens] The subject of this article, Dr. John Ioannidis, is the medical establishment’s equivalent of an internal affairs investigative unit.  According to his meta-studies, the findings from approximately half of the top 50 cited papers of the past … Continue reading

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