Some quick articles

One on the effects of wi-fi on school buses in Arizona

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On a non-standard gender marriage in Malawi. It's not clear from the article if this is a same-sex marriage or if one of the partners is transgendered.

Interesting quote: Aninsia Kachepa, Mr. Chimbalanga’s older sister, wept into her blouse at the simple mention of her jailed brother. “I have never heard of this homosexuality, and I am still not understanding,” she said.

“Tell me, how is it physically possible, one man having sex with another?”

It's not as strange as some people think, I'm sure.

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One I thought I posted before, but can't find about medicine in Cuba.

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I have one more coming, but it's long.

And one last article before I sleep

Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering

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Here's an editorial I didn't notice before, about the probable merging of Asperger's with autism

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/opinion/10grinker.html

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And look, there's letters!

I won't quote every letter in its entirety, but let's look at some of them....

Different cancers need to be treated differently, for example, as do different forms of epilepsy. A potential treatment to which severe autism will respond, but to which “pervasive developmental delay” or Asperger’s will not, will never be known if clinical trials do not separate different forms of “autism.”

Really? You had to go there with the cancer analogy? SERIOUSLY? Why is it always cancer? Let's go somewhere different for a change. Maybe ebola. Ebola might be nice. Why does it have to be cancer, every time?

In more than 40 years of practice as a child psychiatrist, I have found it more fair and reasonable to “label” someone as a “quirky kid” who may need some social training skills, rather than offering a medical diagnosis.

At the same time, I am aware that funding is not available for “quirkiness” and that some parents much prefer a diagnosis. But the latter is often because parents then feel less responsible for their child’s difficulties.

You, uh, you get many patients with that attitude of yours? I'm asking cause, you know, I wouldn't pay you. I'm just saying.

Well, that was an amusing (more or less) two minutes. Time to go poke Evangeline and see if she's ready to wake up from her nap, I guess.