A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that cognitive behavioral therapy is more beneficial for female soldiers suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder than other approaches:
Using a cognitive behavioral therapy called “prolonged exposure” appears more effective than “present-centered” therapy, a supportive intervention to treat female military veterans and active duty [...]

Actually, I think I have a copy of that paper at the office…

This has nothing to do with anything you are interested in – it’s just me throwing a question out into the ether. Read on only if you’re really, really bored.
My bank recently changed its online payment processing method. They explain it this way:
When a bill is paid through Online BillPay, your funds are typically deducted [...]

Sometimes, the only thing you can do is sit back and laugh at the irony…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has posted some very interesting thoughts about recent (asinine) requests for Apple to open up FairPlay and license it to other companies (not surprisingly, these requests have emanated primarily from that mecca of socialism known as Europe, and its associated Union). He sums up the situation for the uninitiated masses, and [...]

For a variety of reasons – most of which involve my newly-acquired status of a “full-time” academic – I have been thinking about multiculturalism a great deal lately. I’ve no new insight on the subject; just the offspring of a steady, grinding irritation about the widespread abuse of the term (that is, the notion that [...]