December 2010
45 posts
The Best of Medgadget 2010 →
The Best of Medgadget 2010 →
World's first organ donor dies aged 79 →
World's first organ donor dies aged 79 →
Skype Adds Video Calling to iPhone App →
If you happen to see people making strange faces at their iPhones in the next few days, blame Skype.
The Internet telephone service introduced video chatting on Thursday for iPhone users who want to not just hear who they call, but also see them. The new feature comes in the latest version of Skype’s iPhone app, available in Apple’s App Store.
Skype Adds Video Calling to iPhone App →
If you happen to see people making strange faces at their iPhones in the next few days, blame Skype.
The Internet telephone service introduced video chatting on Thursday for iPhone users who want to not just hear who they call, but also see them. The new feature comes in the latest version of Skype’s iPhone app, available in Apple’s App Store.
Amazon patents system to stop bad gifts →
Amazon.com has been awarded a patent for an online system that would give users the ability to exchange unwanted gifts before receiving them.
The technology could prevent the shipment of thousands of superfluous ties to fathers, ugly sweaters to grandchildren and various other lackluster presents that are currently being bought and shipped through the online retail giant.
Amazon patents system to stop bad gifts →
Amazon.com has been awarded a patent for an online system that would give users the ability to exchange unwanted gifts before receiving them.
The technology could prevent the shipment of thousands of superfluous ties to fathers, ugly sweaters to grandchildren and various other lackluster presents that are currently being bought and shipped through the online retail giant.
Meet the Ethical Placebo →
A provocative new study called “Placebos Without Deception,” published on PLoS One today, threatens to make humble sugar pills something they’ve rarely had a chance to be in the history of medicine: a respectable, ethically sound treatment for disease that has been vetted in controlled trials.
Meet the Ethical Placebo →
A provocative new study called “Placebos Without Deception,” published on PLoS One today, threatens to make humble sugar pills something they’ve rarely had a chance to be in the history of medicine: a respectable, ethically sound treatment for disease that has been vetted in controlled trials.
HaïkuLeaks / Cable is poetry →
The Blast Shack by Bruce Sterling →
While others stare in awe at Assange’s many otherworldly aspects — his hairstyle, his neatness, too-precise speech, his post-national life out of a laptop bag — I can recognize him as pure triple-A outsider geek. Man, I know a thousand modern weirdos like that, and every single one of them seems to be on my Twitter stream screaming support for Assange because they can recognize him as a brother...
The Blast Shack by Bruce Sterling →
While others stare in awe at Assange’s many otherworldly aspects — his hairstyle, his neatness, too-precise speech, his post-national life out of a laptop bag — I can recognize him as pure triple-A outsider geek. Man, I know a thousand modern weirdos like that, and every single one of them seems to be on my Twitter stream screaming support for Assange because they can recognize him as a brother...
How to Create a TOR Button in Google Chrome →
Phantom vibration syndrome among medical staff: a... →
Results Of the 169 participants who answered the question, 115 (68%, 95% confidence interval 61% to 75%) reported having experienced phantom vibrations. Most (68/112) who experienced phantom vibrations did so after carrying the device between 1 month and 1 year, and 13% experienced them daily. Four factors were independently associated with phantom vibrations: occupation (resident v attending...
Phantom vibration syndrome among medical staff: a... →
Results Of the 169 participants who answered the question, 115 (68%, 95% confidence interval 61% to 75%) reported having experienced phantom vibrations. Most (68/112) who experienced phantom vibrations did so after carrying the device between 1 month and 1 year, and 13% experienced them daily. Four factors were independently associated with phantom vibrations: occupation (resident v attending...
A dose by any other name would not sell as sweet... →
If you leaf through the June 2000 issue of the British Journal of Cardiology you will see advertisements for Zocor, Xenical, and Cozaar before you reach a brand name that does not contain a prominent x or z (and that brand is Viagra). In an issue of Hospital Doctor from the same month (22 June), adverts for Celebrex, Topamax, Flomax, Vioxx, Zispin, Zyprexa, Oxis, Efexor, and Fosamax outnumber...
A dose by any other name would not sell as sweet... →
If you leaf through the June 2000 issue of the British Journal of Cardiology you will see advertisements for Zocor, Xenical, and Cozaar before you reach a brand name that does not contain a prominent x or z (and that brand is Viagra). In an issue of Hospital Doctor from the same month (22 June), adverts for Celebrex, Topamax, Flomax, Vioxx, Zispin, Zyprexa, Oxis, Efexor, and Fosamax outnumber...
Testing the validity of the Danish urban myth that... →
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Pharmacy
My friend Noah Kalina is currently visiting China and took this video of a Chinese pharmacy. A bit different than the ‘ol Walgreens on the corner isn’t it?
Granting Anonymity →
Efforts to liken Tor to other processes can quickly turn inadequate and surreal. When I told Appelbaum that I was stumped by the common comparison of Tor technology (networks) to onions (spheres), he gamely asked me to imagine onions tossed like footballs around blind corners and peeled anew by each catcher, who alone knows how to peel that layer of skin.
Granting Anonymity →
Efforts to liken Tor to other processes can quickly turn inadequate and surreal. When I told Appelbaum that I was stumped by the common comparison of Tor technology (networks) to onions (spheres), he gamely asked me to imagine onions tossed like footballs around blind corners and peeled anew by each catcher, who alone knows how to peel that layer of skin.
WSJ Investigation on iPhone and Android App... →
Fix your terrible, insecure passwords in five... →
Start with an original but memorable phrase. For this exercise, let’s use these two sentences: I like to eat bagels at the airport and My first Cadillac was a real lemon so I bought a Toyota. The phrase can have something to do with your life or it can be a random collection of words—just make sure it’s something you can remember. That’s the key: Because a mnemonic is easy to remember, you...
Fix your terrible, insecure passwords in five... →
Start with an original but memorable phrase. For this exercise, let’s use these two sentences: I like to eat bagels at the airport and My first Cadillac was a real lemon so I bought a Toyota. The phrase can have something to do with your life or it can be a random collection of words—just make sure it’s something you can remember. That’s the key: Because a mnemonic is easy to remember, you...
“The entire population of a U.S. high school, from staff to teachers to kids,...”
– School Experiment Proves Kids Are Wicked Flu-Spreaders, Mass Vaccination Required
Can economists make the system for organ... →
“When the transplant surgeons were confirmed to be in position and ready to operate, the [Serbian] captives were brought out of the ‘safe house’ individually, summarily executed by a KLA gunman, and their corpses transported swiftly to the operating clinic,” the report says, according to the Guardian.
Can economists make the system for organ... →
“When the transplant surgeons were confirmed to be in position and ready to operate, the [Serbian] captives were brought out of the ‘safe house’ individually, summarily executed by a KLA gunman, and their corpses transported swiftly to the operating clinic,” the report says, according to the Guardian.
Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone levels may not... →
Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone levels may not... →
“We do not have a doomsday scenario at the CDC.”
– A spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, responding to PolitiFact’s fact check of “The Walking Dead,” AMC’s hit series in which flesh-eating zombies take over the city of Atlanta and survivors taking refuge at the CDC learn that the agency’s offices are set to...
“The glass is placed in a hot bath of molten salt at a temperature of...”
– Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone’s Unsung Hero
What's New in UpToDate 18.3 →
Perfect for reading with Instapaper.
“When you put in your origin and destination addresses, it sends them off (via...”
– Introducing Trippy: An App to Give You Just Enough to Read on Your Commute
Wired Magazine Gives the Blood Test a Makeover. →
First, care. →
NASA Discovery Literally Changes Life As We Know... →
Thanks, Mono Lake! In a press conference later today, NASA will announce a breakthrough discovery: Bacteria in California’s Mono Lake that subsist off of arsenic. Initially, this admittedly…