Some link dumps.

Pathology in the Hundred Acre Woods is an article published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal by Sarah E. Shea et al of the Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. An excerpt:

We begin with Pooh. This unfortunate bear embodies the concept of comorbidity. Most striking is his Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), inattentive subtype. As clinicians, we had some debate about whether Pooh might also demonstrate significant impulsivity, as witnessed, for example, by his poorly thought out attempt to get honey by disguising himself as a rain cloud. We concluded, however, that this reflected more on his comorbid cognitive impairment, further aggravated by an obsessive fixation on honey. The latter, of course, has also contributed to his significant obesity. Pooh's perseveration on food and his repetitive counting behaviours raise the diagnostic possibility of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Given his coexisting ADHD and OCD, we question whether Pooh may over time present with Tourette's syndrome. Pooh is also clearly described as having Very Little Brain. We could not confidently diagnose microcephaly, however, as we do not know whether standards exist for the head circumference of the brown bear.

Smart Pills might do much to clam W-t-P down, but it can also be abused by students to increase "concentration, focus, wakefulness and short-term memory" when studying. Drugs like Adderall, Provigil, and Ritalin are sold by students with a legal prescription for $3-5 per pill on campuses. The percentage of students reportedly using the drugs are rather scary. (Though strangely enough, I didn't know first hand of anyone using brain-performance-enhancing-drugs at Princeton.) A peculiar side-effect:

Universities now sport some of the cleanest apartments in the history of undergraduate education. Says one student who asked for anonymity because she has been an off-prescription user of these drugs: "You've done all your work, but you're still focused. So you start with the bathroom, and then move on to the kitchen . . . ."

This reminds me of Paul Erdös, whose 1,500+ papers in his lifetime marks him somewhat like the Barry Bonds of mathematics. The question: should academic competitions (Olympiads, admissions to colleges, tenure track considerations) involve drug testings?

Speaking of litmus tests, a woman apparently decided to use the choice of bedtime reading as a litmus test for boyfriends. That's just so wrong.