Janel's Place

If you are trying to figure out if there is influenza virus in your horse's stall bedding, you need to set up a 2x2 table of influenza by poor bedding and look for the strength of association with the odds ratio. Don't stratify your data on the basis of influenza virus presence or absence. It just doesn't work that way. You get zeros in your table and get all confused and it's really messy.

Fruit flies are commonly known as vinegar flies and can fly up to 6.5 miles in a day.

Moravia and Bohemia are now incorporated into the Czech Socialist Republic. The Czech Socialist Republic arose upon the split of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Socialist Republic and Slovakia ("The Velvet Divorce," Jan 1, 1993).

Transcription factors and microRNAs perform conceptually similar roles.

Baked beans are high in fiber.

Good advice can turn a bad situation into a golden one.

Shingles is a Herpes virus that can make you go blind.

Nieces are always girls.

If you have a hunting accident you will only receive sympathy if you are not Dick Cheney.

Avian flu has hit Denmark.

Keeping your mouth shut when provoked is an interesting exercise that in post-situ analysis reveals the meaningful truth that had you opened it you would have accomplished the same result that you did with it shut: nothing. Previous experiences wherein the mouth-open option was chosen were therefore colossal wastes of words.

MacDonald's habitually gives away apple pies when custard pies are requested.

You can't judge character by quality of dancing.

Men and women usually have the same number of ribs -- 12 pairs.

Why did I buy a book about rattlesnakes?

Thaovi is the name of a flower in Vietnamese.

There were definitely ping pong balls associated with Captain Kangaroo.

A venti coffee has unpredictable effects on the brain.

I have to go.