One of the things that obsessive compulsive people do is to check things. And recheck them. And check them again. The Dashboard feature on WordPress makes this habit hard to resist. Every time I hit the Dashboard button, I can see how many people have been reading the blog, and how many times the page… Continue reading From the Margins
The great Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word "carcinos", meaning crab or crayfish. This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with the "veins stretched out on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."