Grand Rounds Vol. 2, No. 33

Gentlemen: Start Your Grand Rounds! // Emergiblog Welcome to the Emergiblog Speedway, where the Grand Rounds 500 is about to get underway! No chance of a rain delay - our bloggers are ready to roll! Thirty-nine bloggers have shown up for the event. All entries have qualified; no posts were sent back to the garage. Nascar analogy, from the Bay Area.  Heh. ... more

Welcome to the Emergiblog Speedway, where the Grand Rounds 500 is about to get underway! No chance of a rain delay - our bloggers are ready to roll! Thirty-nine bloggers have shown up for the event. All entries have qualified; no posts were sent back to the garage. And ladies, don’t worry, you’re welcome on the track, I just wanted to use the classic starting phrase! The new grand round is up at Emergiblog . Nice theme, you’ll never guess it so have a look and read the be... more

Grand Rounds is up at Nurse Ratched’s Place, but sans any contribution from this blogger. It turns out my email got caught in a spam filter (not sure why), so I was only overlooked, not deliberately ignored. Mother Jones has promised to make it better, but I can’t help it if my tender feelings are a little hurt. To nurse my petulance, I now present Petty Rounds - a review of very recent news and posts - because I really am no bigger than this. 1) Maggie Mahar follows up with he... more

By Peter Gorner Chicago Tribune Just from looking at a man’s face, women can sense how much he likes children, gauge his testosterone level and decide whether he’d be more suitable as a one-night stand or as a husband, new research published Tuesday suggests. Scientists in Chicago and California photographed men’s faces and asked women to rate them on whether they seemed to like children, on their masculinity, on their physical attractiveness and on whether they seemed kind. ... more

He was 84. His hair was starting to thin, but he still had more than many men half his age. Up until the age of 82, he had ridden his motorcycle to work every day. If there was anything he loved more than a good joke, a good meal, or an ice cold beer - it had to be spending time with his grandkids. To me, he was immortal. At the time, the only way I would ever think of his age was to brag about him to myself: “Look at him! 84! He still climbs up onto the roof at my brother’s house to ma... more

People are being evacuated from their homes, and all of our local schools are closed. One radio station reported that people from Newmarket NH were unable to find an exit from the town … my husband has to go through there to get to work, so … I guess he’ll be home tonight. Rivers and streams are expected to crest on either Tuesday or Wednesday, but they’re not certain of when, and they keep pushing the estimate back. We’re on a high spot … and I’m gr... more