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Lost Words: S-Z. Night and the doctor. Medical Procedure Cost & Healthcare Cost by NewChoiceHealth.com. Vitaliy Kaurov Blog. The Jawbone Of an Ass. Thoughts on Penal Substitution. Scott H Young. Sandra Glahn's blog. Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012. Contrary Brin. Old Occupations - B2. Breastfeeding and Fertility.

By Kelly Bonyata, BS, IBCLC How can I use breastfeeding to prevent pregnancy?

Breastfeeding and Fertility

The Exclusive Breastfeeding method of birth control is also called the Lactational Amenorrhea Method of birth control, or LAM. Lactational amenorrhea refers to the natural postpartum infertility that occurs when a woman is not menstruating due to breastfeeding. Many mothers receive conflicting information on the subject of breastfeeding and fertility. Myth #1 – Breastfeeding cannot be relied upon to prevent pregnancy. Myth #2 – Any amount of breastfeeding will prevent pregnancy, regardless of the frequency of breastfeeding or whether mom’s period has returned. Exclusive breastfeeding has in fact been shown to be an excellent form of birth control, but there are certain criteria that must be met for breastfeeding to be used effectively. Exclusive breastfeeding (by itself) is 98-99.5% effective in preventing pregnancy as long as all of the following conditions are met:

Rootstrikers. Microbiology. (Also, all of these goofy pics are now being archived at a tumblr I just set up – scienceisawesomethatisall.tumblr.com) O.K.

microbiology

Yesterday was our provincial elections (in British Columbia), and in the end, the Liberal party came out winning. There’s quite a few environmental issues that are in the forefront in my neck of the woods, not the least of which concerns the Northern Gateway pipeline. The Liberals didn’t actually have the greatest platform on this (at least from an environmental or science policy standpoint), but here’s hoping the public continues to pressure them to do the “best” (re: what scientific expert peer review suggests) thing for the province, and indeed the planet at large.

Last Saturday, my lab opened up the entire ground floor of the Michael Smith Building to the public. When Jesus Is Present Where Jesus Isn’t Present. Did you ever see Slumdog Millionaire?

When Jesus Is Present Where Jesus Isn’t Present

It’s the Oscar winning film about a teenager from the Dhavari slum of Mumbai, India that (SPOILER ALERT) miraculously wins the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. Well, this weekend the National Geographic Channel ran a special called The Real Slumdogs. (Yes, I watch a lot of the National Geographic Channel.) Llective nouns, groups of animals, terms for animal and other groups including birds. A CHAIN of bobolinks (whatever they might be!!)

llective nouns, groups of animals, terms for animal and other groups including birds.

Melissa Bee. Just in case there is anyone else out there who, like me, doesn't know what a Bobolink is I have been reliably informed by Amelia B., that it is a small bird. The male is black and white with a yellow cap on his head and the female is golden brown with brown markings. Friends' intelligencer - Friends Intelligencer Association. Deciphering the Nuanced Differences Between Neopuritanism and Neocalvinism. Collin Hansen, in his book, Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists, says that as a new (and the youngest) editor at Christianity Today, it was assumed that he knew a lot about the emerging church.

Deciphering the Nuanced Differences Between Neopuritanism and Neocalvinism

However, “I didn’t know anyone who was emerging.” Instead, what he did notice was something else: “After one staff discussion about the emerging church, I talked…with my boss at CT. Is New Calvinism Really New Fundamentalism? Fundamentalism is characterized by: A.)

Is New Calvinism Really New Fundamentalism?

David Brin's Official Web Site: "We Hobbits are a Merry Folk" (article) Having trouble picturing this dichotomy I'm painting? Between romantics and followers of Ben Franklin's pragmatic enlightenment? Well here's another way of looking at it, focusing on how people view the time orientation of wisdom . All creatures live embedded in time, though only human beings lift their heads to comment on it, lamenting the past or worrying over the future.

Unique portions of our brains handle this temporal skepsis . Prefrontal lobes -- the "lamps on our brows" -- ponder tomorrow while swathes of older cortex can flood with vivid memories of yesterday, triggered by the merest sensory tickle, as when a single aromatic whiff sent Proust back to roam his mother's kitchen for eighty thousand words.

Obsession with either past or future can almost define a civilization. Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013. By Jeffrey Beall Released December 4, 2012 The gold open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers.

Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013

Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money off the author processing charges that are billed to authors upon acceptance of their scientific manuscripts. There are two lists below. The first includes questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. The second list includes individual journals that do not publish under the platform of any publisher — they are essentially independent, questionable journals. In both cases, we recommend that researchers, scientists, and academics avoid doing business with these publishers and journals. There are still many high-quality journals available for scholars to publish in, including many that do not charge author processing fees.

The author is grateful to the many colleagues who have shared information about potential predatory publishers.