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iPhone urine analysis app may require FDA approval, says...

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:36:32 -0400

iPhone urine analysis app may require FDA approval, says agency
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles, theverge.com

In what may be a first for the Federal Drug Administration, the agency has sent a letter to the makers of an iPhone medical app asking why its approval wasn’t sought before release. The uChek app analyzes photos of urine samples to giv…

Please tell me is this a comprehensive list of kidney blogs

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:35:18 -0400

Please tell me is this a comprehensive list of kidney blogs:

Here is my list so far:

uremic frost PBFluids Renal Fellow Network Utah Renal Fellows Nephron Powers The Kidney Doctor Sharp end of the needle eAJKD uKidney HemoDoc Global Kidney Academy Kidney Notes ACO Blog Mahesh’s Top Reads allen’s Blog Demystifying Kidney Disease… WhizzBang Pediatric Nephrology Blog Nephrology on Demand

There’s actually reason to throw good money after bad

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:58:00 -0400

There’s actually reason to throw good money after bad:

“Don’t throw good money after bad.” Any student of economics knows this basic rule, which states that rational agents should not take irrecoverable or “sunk” costs into account when making decisions about present or future investments. Nevertheless, human beings break this rule all the time, succumbing to a cognitive bias known as the “sunk-cost fallacy.” If you have ever sat through a bad movie because you did not want to “waste” the money you paid for the ticket or finished a PhD program you lost interest in years ago because of all the work you had already done, you have made this mistake. But what if it were not always a mistake—what if, in certain situations, this “fallacy” were actually an optimal decision-making strategy?

Part of being an entrepreneur is knowing when to shift tactics.

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:58:17 -0400

Part of being an entrepreneur is knowing when to shift tactics.:

jayparkinsonmd.com

When you’re building something new like Sherpaa, you have no real precedent to see how other companies sold the product/service. You can’t learn from others. So you have to build something, get it out there, see how people react, and experiment wi…

Updated iPhone Home Screen. (Because some people actually ask me...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:33:15 -0400

Updated iPhone Home Screen. (Because some people actually ask me about this.)

New way to spread the word | Kidney Punch John Pickering,...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:32:27 -0400

New way to spread the word | Kidney Punch
John Pickering, sciblogs.co.nz

Changes to Flipboard mean it’s now a great tool for science outreach, or indeed any outreach.
If you don’t know what Flipboard is, then checkout Flipboard.com or better yet, download the app. I …

John McCain To Tim Cook: ‘Why The Hell Do I Have To Keep...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:02:41 -0400

John McCain To Tim Cook: ‘Why The Hell Do I Have To Keep Updating Apps On My iPhone?’
Steve Kovach, businessinsider.com

Senator John McCain just interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook about the company’s taxes and offshore profits.
But the kicker came at the end, when McCain stopped his line of questioning by asking, “Why the hell do I have to keep updating a…

Massive tornado strikes Oklahoma City Xeni Jardin,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:57:10 -0400

Massive tornado strikes Oklahoma City
Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net

A powerful tornado struck a suburb of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma over the past few hours. Roofs were torn from buildings, homes leveled, and entire neighborhoods flattened. The number of dead and injured is not yet known.
At least one…

inothernews: A framegrab from TV news video shows lot upon lot...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:29:52 -0400

inothernews:

A framegrab from TV news video shows lot upon lot of homes flattened by a “mile-wide” tornado in Moore, Oklahoma on Monday. At least 51 people are dead. (via KFOR TV / The New York Times)

May 20, Clinical Trial Day Joel Topf, pbfluids.com Clinical...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:46 -0400

May 20, Clinical Trial Day
Joel Topf, pbfluids.com

Clinical trial day is held on May 20th in honor of the first clinical trial, James Lind’s 1747 Trial on the treatment of Scurvy. The ironic thing is how shoddy the study design was. He took 12 sailors with scurvy and divided them into 6 groups of …

On the Constant Moment by Clayton Cubitt

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:16:06 -0400

On the Constant Moment by Clayton Cubitt

In Conversation: Vince Gilligan on the End of Breaking Bad

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:48:08 -0400

In Conversation: Vince Gilligan on the End of Breaking Bad:

Knee-deep in edits for the final season of Breaking Bad, which premieres in August, the creator of television’s darkest drama talks with Lane Brown about violence as entertainment, the incredible pressure of bringing a beloved serial to an end, and what it feels like to have Dzhokar Tsarnaev as a fan.

Daring Fireball: All the Mashed Potatoes

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:24:25 -0400

Daring Fireball: All the Mashed Potatoes:

The drum I’m trying to bang here is not that Google is a greedy competitor, but rather that Google is a greedy competitor that presents itself as anything but — as a sort of peaceful, whimsical, happy-go-lucky techno-futurist corporate utopian — and that rather than see this pose as absurd, many people, Googlers and Google users alike, buy it.

The world’s tallest building will be in the middle of an empty...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:46 -0400

The world’s tallest building will be in the middle of an empty field in China
Lily Kuo, qz.com

A Chinese firm best known for building air conditioning units is constructing a vertical city. Broad Sustainable Construction (BSB) said this week that next month it will finally break ground on its the tower that will not only be th…

"It turns out that we are only 10 percent human: for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body,..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:05:50 -0400

“It turns out that we are only 10 percent human: for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10 resident microbes — including commensals (generally harmless freeloaders) and mutualists (favor traders) and, in only a tiny number of cases, pathogens.”

- Some of My Best Friends Are Germs

(via Grisly Killings in Syrian Towns Dim Hopes for Peace Talks -...

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:46:31 -0400

(via Grisly Killings in Syrian Towns Dim Hopes for Peace Talks - NYTimes.com)

Doximity Physician Network Now Available for Apple...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:08:21 -0400

Doximity Physician Network Now Available for Apple iPads
Editors, medgadget.com

Doximity, self-described as the “largest online physician network”, has now made its app available on the Apple iPad. The system allows secure communication between doctors including HIPAA compliant faxing with a complimentary fax number fo…

Photos of the Mesmerizing Sun Halo that Appeared Over New York...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:06:03 -0400

Photos of the Mesmerizing Sun Halo that Appeared Over New York Today
DL Cade, petapixel.com

Earlier today, residents of New York and the surrounding area were privy to a really amazing celestial treat; it’s called a Sun Halo, and one spent some time today hovering over the greatest city on Earth and making people wonder if Martians were…

Sun emits 2013′s first two X-class solar flares Brittany Hillen,...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:01:24 -0400

Sun emits 2013′s first two X-class solar flares
Brittany Hillen, slashgear.com

The Sun has emitted its first two X-class solar flares of 2013, the first having happened on Sunday May 12, and the second yesterday. Both were relatively small in size, neither coming close to the record breaking X-flares of 2011 and 2012, yet we…

Philips Hue smart LED bulbs just got a little smarter with...

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:53:06 -0400

Philips Hue smart LED bulbs just got a little smarter with latest iOS update
Richard Devine, imore.com

Philips Hue, the smart LED light bulbs for your home, just got a little bit smarter alongside the latest update to the iOS app pushing out now through the App Store. Top of the order is the new Geofencing feature, which can activate a scene…