September 2010
106 posts
MacArthur Foundation Winners →
Including Dave Simon, creator of The Wire.
The Future Well: Health as urban design. http://bit.ly/cCLdrd
The Future Well: A Kit Kat a day keeps the doctor away? http://bit.ly/ddIhNG
RenalFellowNetwork: Do hibernating bears urinate? http://bit.ly/9i897p
This is a news website article about a scientific... →
Stuxnet Worm Is Remarkable for Its Lack of... →
Uremic Frost: Amgen Voluntarily Recalls Epogen and Procrit Due to Glass Flakes http://bit.ly/aapCvT
HDCN: Soil used by urban gardeners may be contaminated with lead. http://bit.ly/cfI8HE
The Stanford 25 →
“ON SEPTEMBER 28, AT 4PM in the afternoon, I will be putting on a show entitled...”
– GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS JOHN HODGMAN
Digital Overload: Your Brain On Gadgets →
Multitasking is a lie - your brain needs a break. →
“Teaching manners is a delicate business; medical students are naturally...”
– Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin
Uremic Frost: Magnesium May Decrease Risk of Developing Diabetes http://bit.ly/axE4GP
The Future Well: We’re still getting fatter, who will save us? http://bit.ly/93IoZX
HDCN: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement associated with markedly improved survival. http://bit.ly/aZioto
Stephen Colbert Testifies in Congress, in... →
Stephen Colbert testified in a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on immigrant farm workers this morning (video here, not embeddable). The hearing got off to an awkward start when Democratic Rep….
iPhone as Wheelchair Control Hub →
Dynamic Controls out of Christchurch, New Zealand has developed a system by which wheelchair users can control their iPhone using the chair’s own joystick. Additionally, the iPhone can…
Beta release from Hunch labs: The Hunch... →
We’ve just released a beta feature to make it easier for you to add things you like to Hunch as you browse: The Hunch ‘Bookmarklet’.
First, you add the Bookmarklet as a bookmark to your browser:
RenalFellowNetwork: Post obstructive diuresis http://bit.ly/cAkkj9
Photographs Of the Super Duper Harvestest Moon →
Yesterday was the once-approximately-every-19 years occurrence of a “Super Harvest Moon” or “Harvestest Moon”. Here are some photographs that our readers took of the moon…
RenalFellowNetwork: Something fishy? http://bit.ly/bIIzO6
HDCN: Off-topic: Vertical wind turbines and schools of fish. http://bit.ly/9MdZAZ
HDCN: European Medicines Agency recommends that Avandia (rosiglitazone) be banned from the European market. http://bbc.in/coivjf
HDCN: FDA warns of kidney failure and other side effects from aromatase inhibitors in dietary supplements. http://bit.ly/c2WfYU
The Fading Art Of The Physical Exam →
The Stuxnet Worm →
It’s impressive: The Stuxnet worm is a “groundbreaking” piece of malware so devious in its use of unpatched vulnerabilities, so sophisticated in its multipronged approach, that the security…
RenalFellowNetwork: Epo: The honeymoon is not over http://bit.ly/do02Fp
Uremic Frost: DASH Diet May Reduce Stone Risk http://bit.ly/9ffYS6
RenalFellowNetwork: My head feels like it’s about to explode http://bit.ly/9RhVQf
Uremic Frost: The Kidney Diet: How to Eat in Order to Protect Your Kidneys and Avoid Dialysis http://bit.ly/byA7II
HDCN: Adenovirus 36 infection linked to obesity in children. http://bit.ly/anksPc
pwned experiments →
“We feature owned, pwned, and failed science.”
Computers as Invisible as the Air →
HDCN: MMWR reports transmission of a soil amoeba causing encephalitis via a transplanted organ. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
NCBI ROFL: Dogs catch human yawns. →
“This study is the first to demonstrate that human yawns are possibly contagious to domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Twenty-nine dogs observed a human yawning or making control mouth…
My wife dreamed she was forced to sit through Inception again and woke up angry.
A Google Health update →
Google Health launched a bit over two years ago, and since then we’ve been listening to our users, analyzing feedback and conducting research. We’ve learned a lot from you! You’ve confirmed that…
RenalFellowNetwork: Doc, I am very sensitized! (part 2) http://bit.ly/dqFL5L
HDCN: Key health law provisions to begin September 23rd. http://bit.ly/9yIH8j
PBF: Altitude sickness and the role of acetazolamide http://bit.ly/9DU8bC
HDCN: Read food labels and lose weight. http://bit.ly/d5ssIf
Making a game of getting healthy →
Health Month is a game designed to help you improve your health. There are about 50 different kinds of rules. Half of them are rules about what to avoid - things like alcohol, white flour,…
RenalFellowNetwork: Secondary forms of hypertension http://bit.ly/d14CVE