Continue reading#MidweekMystery: Dead as a Duck by Colleen J Shogan
#MidweekMystery: Dead as a Duck by Colleen J Shogan
When the resort town's mayor turns up dead, Kit and her friends need to put their vacation on hold to solve the crime.
#MidweekMystery: Gore in the Garden (a new Washington Whodunit) and The Subject of Malice (A Lila MacLean Academic Mystery)
This week in #MidweekMystery: Academia and Politics. or Pettiness, Protocol, and Murder.
A new Washington Whodunit and Giveaway: K Street Killing by Colleen J. Shogan
Another Washington Whodunit from Colleen Shogan, author of the wonderful Calamity at the Continental Club! It’s the height of campaign season, and instead of relishing newlywed bliss with her husband Doug Hollingsworth, Capitol Hill staffer Kit Marshall is busy with a tough reelection fight for her boss, member of Congress Maeve Dixon. Before Maeve and her …
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New BMJ editorial: “How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It”
Well documented problems exist in the funding and prioritisation of research, the conduct of trials, the withholding of results, the dissemination of evidence, and its implementation with patients. Here we briefly examine six domains where the academy could call for simple practical improvements that would address legitimate concerns. Publication bias—We conduct trials to detect modest …
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GUEST POST and GIVEAWAY: The Right Kind of Skin (Rhino) by Joanne Guidoccio
In high school, Joanne Guidoccio dabbled in poetry, but it would be over three decades before she entertained the idea of writing as a career. In 2008, she took an early retirement from teaching and decided to launch a second career that would tap into her creative side and utilize her well-honed organizational skills. Before long, Joanne …
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GUEST POST: The Worst Possible Cocktail Party by Mindy Quigley
Say I’ve written a bit of dialogue that’s outrageously clever, full of nimble-minded wordplay and athletic leaps of language. I’ve peppered each sentence with ten-dollar words and Oscar Wilde-esque wit. But when I examine this brilliant bit of dialogue using the cocktail party nutcase test, I may realize that, it is a clear example of the high-strung woman cornering the unsuspecting partygoer.
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Study: Fat Cat Professors Not Responsible for Rising Tuition, May Not Actually Exist
Between 78 and 79 percent of the tuition hikes at public universities -- which averaged $3,628 per student at research universities and $2,463 per student at nonresearch colleges -- was due to declining state appropriations, between 5 and 6 percent was due to increased administrative spending, and another 6 percent was due to construction costs. …
COLLEGE MISERY: What’s next, fake jury summonses? A Really Pro-Active Recruiting Initiative from UF
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People prefer a healthy-looking leader to an intelligent-looking one.
"Health was an influential cue across all scenarios, while intelligence only had an effect in half of the presented scenarios. " Well, at least intelligence wasn't a negative predictor (The study was done in the Netherlands; I wonder how the same experiment might turn out in the US). And yes, apparently there is a way to manipulate "intelligent-looking." …
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The future of mental health care: Brain-zapping, big data, and beauty sleep.
On January 21, Dr. Chris Frueh (who writes as Christopher Bartley) gave a talk on some of the upcoming innovations in mental health care. You can watch the whole thing here (starts at about 14:30). There are all kinds of new treatments on the horizon, like microbiome testing, Ketamine infusion and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Of course most of us don't …
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