Academic

The Physics of Law School Rankings
From a Duke press release: Physics Explains Why University Rankings Won't Change: A Duke University researcher says that his physics theory, which has been applied to everything from global climate to traffic patterns, can also explain another trend: why university...

A New Version Of The Malign Acceptance of Sexism
Courtesy of Al Hunt: [S]ome Clintonistas persist in the whiny complaint that it was all about sexism. . . . Clinton herself complained of the "deeply offensive" sexual discrimination she faced particularly in the media ...

Smitten Pakistani president smacked by feminists at home for sexism towards Veep nominee Palin
My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com ponders why feminists in Pakistan are able to recognize sexism (albeit of a fairly harmless sort) toward Sarah Palin in the actions of their own president, while American so-called feminists are blind to any and all sexism directed her way by themselves or their fellow Americans of the Hard Left.

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: YOICHIRU NAMBU - NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN PHYSICS
It was great to see the following alumni email arrive this afternoon from The University of Chicago where I attended law school regarding Japanese-born Professor Yoichiro Nambu: I am delighted to tell you that Yoichiro Nambu, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute, has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics...

Palin and Sexism
A really terrible post, quoting Dave Weigel, by Andrew Sullivan:It's going to be awfully, awfully tiresome to hear conservatives whine about Palin attacks being sexist. One, it's in bad faith: I challenge them to take a polygraph and say they never visited SlapHillary...

trumping reality with the sexism card
. . . . . . . . The recent rash of articles asking whether sexism is the cause of Hillary Clinton’s failure to win the nomination for the presidency has the f/k/a Gang again frustrated by our pledge to avoid political punditry...

Tarceva
Safety Data Show Association with Liver Failure and Death

Lipitor
Review of Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women

T-mobile data plans, T-mobile, t-mobile phones
T-Mobile Faces Class Action over Limited Unlimited Data Plans

AT&T Faces Class Action over Excessive Data Usage Charges
AT&T Faces Class Action over Excessive Data Usage Charges

Seroquel
Data on Diabetes Buried

Nursing Home Abuse
New Data Made Public