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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…

The bitcoin network is now more powerful than the top 500...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:15:41 -0400

The bitcoin network is now more powerful than the top 500 supercomputers, combined
Christopher Mims, qz.com

Add up the combined computing power of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world—that’s billions upon billions of dollars worth of hardware—and stack it up against to the raw processing power of every computer currently produci…

4 tips to better communicate with patients

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:12:19 -0400

4 tips to better communicate with patients:

I was listening to CBS This Morning recently as they were interviewing Alan Alda. He was discussing his acting career and being the host of Scientific American’s Frontiers (airs on PBS stations). Alan Alda relayed a personal story of his, having an intestinal blockage while he was filming an episode in Chile.

As he relayed this incident, he spoke of the physician who told him that he was going to remove the involved portion of his intestine. He said he didn’t understand why he needed the surgery until the surgeon told him he was “going to cut out the bad part of his intestine and then sew the two ends together.” It was then that he understood, what was going to happen.

iBlueButton® Professional for iPad on the iTunes App Store

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:48:21 -0400

iBlueButton® Professional for iPad on the iTunes App Store:

The iBlueButton® Apps are award winning applications (U.S Department of Health and Human Services ONC Investing in Innovation Challenge winner in December, 2011). The Federal Government Blue Button® Initiative provides Americans with the ability to download and easily review their online health summary records from Blue Button enabled patient portals such as My HealtheVet, TRICARE Online and MyMedicare.gov as well as private portals such as those of health insurance companies. Blue Button records are a rich source of crucial and often otherwise unavailable medical information about your patients, and may include their current list of medications, allergies, medical conditions and procedures, lab results, and emergency contact information.

All the World’s Diseases Come to Elmhurst Hospital

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:24:22 -0400

All the World’s Diseases Come to Elmhurst Hospital

1 wtc standing at full height for the first time By Jason Pierce...

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:34:42 -0400

1 wtc standing at full height for the first time
By Jason Pierce Photography, flickr.com