Alix Mednauseam

Alix Mednauseam's articles

1. October 12, 2011
   
   Calling the (Unconstitutional) Shots in California
   Apparently Brown thinks a child can decipher the medical jargon in a twenty-seven page product insert, including statistical details from placebo controlled trials, but doesn't think teens can make decisions about whether or not they will get a sunburn in a tanning bed.
   in Technorati Women
2. February 10, 2011
   
   Lyme Disease: A Modern Tuskegee Experiment
   Lyme Disease & syphilis are caused by a spirochete. Like Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment patients, Lyme patients are routinely denied antibiotics.
   in Technorati Women
3. February 8, 2011
   
   Rocket Scientist Steve Adler on the Physics of Putting Love in Chocolate
   Valentine's Day approaches - learn about the physics of putting love in chocolate from a rocket scientist chocolatier.
   in Lifestyle
4. June 16, 2010
   
   My SlutBrella
   
   in Technorati Women
5. May 24, 2010
   
   The Trampoline Dilemma
   
   in Technorati Women
6. May 4, 2010
   
   Unhappy Meals in Santa Clara County
   Don't get me wrong, I think we as a society have to do something about the nutritional illiteracy that drives people to value a meal more for its speedy delivery and price than for its nutritional content. If people keep eating their way into expensive diseases like diabetes and heart disease, the health care system will bankrupt our country. It's only a matter of time.
   in Technorati Women
7. March 21, 2010
   
   Pick Axe Humor... Was it Funny or was it Just Me?
   
   in Technorati Women
8. March 2, 2010
   
   Live Blogging a Summer Camp Registration
   This is the final of my many camp sign ups this year. With ten weeks of summer and two kids, I could sign up for twenty different weekly summer camps and be subjected to this type of sign-up abuse and life disruption twenty separate times.
   in Technorati Women
9. February 22, 2010
   
   Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack Speaks with Mom Bloggers
   
   in Technorati Women
10. February 7, 2010
    
    Giftedness: The Third Rail of Public Education in California
    I found out in a recent meeting with administrators that they dance gingerly around the word "gifted," going so far as to only say the word when quoting us, as in, "You have said your child is gifted." One administrator even held up peace signs with two fingers, curling them quickly into air quotes as the word gifted was uttered. The message I got was that kids no longer possess academic gifts because we can't fund gifted programs anymore. Giftedness is the third rail of public elementary education: don't touch it!
    in Technorati Women