A creative solution to our insane housing costs, as well as an antidote for our need for excess...

Small houses challenge our notions of need as well as minimum-size standards (San Francisco Chronicle):

By Carol Lloyd, Special to SF Gate

Friday, April 27, 2007

Photos: Artist-builder Jay Shafer stands in front of his 96-square foot house...

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Here's the business report mentioned below: "Health Care in the Express Lane: The Emergence of Retail Clinics," by Mary Kate Scott. She's a principal of Scott & Company, a strategy consulting firm giving services to health technology firms and their investors. She's also a professor at USC's Marshall School of Business ( Read more... )

In contrast, this is from my friend, a new nursing grad from Johns Hopkins who just left her job at UCSF, after 11 weeks of exhausting and frustrating training. She had wanted to become a nurse practitioner, but now she wants to go back into the business world and help with clinical trials ( Read more... )

I still have access to my university library online, so I can read medical/nursing journals and entire medical books online, free. This is from the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (JAAPA).

A Day in the Life (JAAPA):


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This is HILARIOUS! If you're wondering what else you could do with your life, here are a few ways to be profitably and pleasantly (if uselessly) employed, from Stanley Bing's book, 100 Bulls**t Jobs … and How to Get Them.

For example:

Job #41: Political reverend
Turn public issues to personal advantage.

$$: Millions, if you've got a good TV gig ( Read more... )

Wow! Tim Ferriss's book, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, is now ranked #8 of all Amazon.com top-selling books! It just got published yesterday ( Read more... )

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Now that President Bush has helped tilt the Supreme Court to the right, watch out. They had always allowed abortions in case of medical emergency, when the woman's life was at stake. Now that has changed.

A Woman's Choice (Newsweek): I needed that now-banned procedure known as 'partial-birth' abortion. Why the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to ( Read more... )

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I usually don't have time to look at computer games, but these look really cool! I haven't tried them yet. What do you think? Can you recommend other excellent business and medical simulators?

Abandonia is an excellent site full of "abandonware."

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