The age of urban chickens is upon us. Or, at least, it’s upon Tulsa, Austin, New York City, Portland, and a variety of other cities nationwide. All of these cities allow people to keep backyard hens for their egg-consuming, chicken-watching enjoyment. Residents can buy fancy, architect-designed coops that any urbanite would be proud to own. [...]
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A Ride Along with the Sex Police
September 16, 2011
Greg Heartsill has a difficult job. He works as a Disease Intervention Specialist at the Oklahoma City-County Health Department. His coworkers jokingly call him the “Sex Police,” though most disease intervention specialists hate that term. Heartsill gives out the results from tests for HIV, syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases. He is trained to compassionately [...]
My Dinner With Cleverbot
September 9, 2011
Cleverbot is a state of the art project in artificial intelligence. It is designed to score well on the Turing Test- a double blind experiment where humans interact with both a machine and a human and try to guess which is which. I decided to have a chat with Cleverbot this morning. The result reads [...]
TB Blues: Reducing “Consumption” in Oklahoma County
August 23, 2011
When one thinks about tuberculosis, it’s tempting to think of pale Victorian ladies, delicately coughing into blood-dappled handkerchiefs. It is also wrong. TB still exists, and still kills- even in Oklahoma City. Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious health risk throughout the rest of the world. According to the World Health Organization, one third of the [...]
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