July 2010
50 posts
HDCN: Calcium supplements increase the risk of heart attack in postmenopausal women. http://bit.ly/9jwZY9
The secrets next door. →
In suburbs across the nation, the intelligence community goes about its anonymous business.
Resuscitation →
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year worldwide. Successful resuscitation is challenging but achievable, requiring an interdependent set of actions that…
How to win Rock-Paper-Scissors →
How to win Rock-Paper-Scissors
IBM Creates Most Complete Map of Brain's Activity... →
A team of IBM scientists used 410 anatomical tracing studies of the macaque brain to create what is possibly the most complete and complex map of the primate organ. The researchers report…
Officials Say the Darndest Things →
A ProPublica Tumbleblog.
Twitter Blog: Discovering Who To Follow →
Photos of New York City From Above →
photo by Daniel Acker
Denver Post’s Plog recently featured some stunning photos of New York City from above on their Captured blog.
This is a blog post from Laughing Squid,…
RenalFellowNetwork: Just a spoon full of (bicarbonate) makes the medicine go down.. http://bit.ly/axAyRN
"Hospice medical care for dying patients" by Atul... →
Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left.
Medical Specialties and Clinical Practice Topics:... →
Slow motion lightning strike →
A lightning strike recorded at 9000 frames per second. The action across time scales displayed in this video is amazing. One strike hovers in the frame almost the entire time while other…
Uremic Frost: Social Media Helps Man Find Kidney Transplant http://bit.ly/aJjdB6
Plan for urine-powered fuel cells leaks out http://bit.ly/bRP1MS
Orchid Fever by Susan Orlean →
The inspiration for Charlie Kaufman’s “Adaptation.”
Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever →
The Neuroscience of Inception →
Watch‘Red’
Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown →
“Meanwhile I’m traveling in Southeast Asia in the hot season. Desperately,...”
– Paolo Bacigalupi Talks About The Windup Girl
chillout song :: zefrank.com →
Love the @Audible_com iPhone app. Minor quibbles: no 2x play speed and no pausing with headphone controls.
Improv Everywhere Brings “Star Wars” to NYC Subway... →
iPhone 4 observations: The best GPS experience I’ve had was the Motion X GPS Drive app ($3!) and the Bracketron vent mount kit.
iPhone 4 observations: The antenna signal thing is a non-issue.
I’ve had so many friends ask about the iPhone 4, I figured I’d post some observations.
EpicWin, Turning A Todo List App Into a Role... →
AI Predicts Manhole Explosions In New York City →
Blood Glucose Monitor with Native iPhone Support →
★ Translation From Apple’s Unique Dialect of... →
@Balut: “Nothing keeps the CCU nurses on their toes like my death rattle ringtone.”
And he’s not kidding: http://j.mp/dnT0mk
Who’s Who in the Russian Spy Ring →