Archive for the ‘There Is Hope’ Category
Courtesy of the American Medical News website comes the story of The Healing Blade, a (collectible? non-collectible?) card game that, through play, teaches budding Med students the ins and outs of infectious disease. It was created by two doctors, Francis Kong and Arun Mathews, who founded the game company Nerdcore Learning (more on their extremely magnanimous [...]
The stuff that dreams are made of: Wired has a profile of various countries’ bases in Antarctica that, once again, make me wonder if I should have taken a degree in the sciences. If we ever live on the Moon or Mars, it will be, partially, because we had bases on Antarctica — learning to [...]
This ad might come off as too clever by half to some, but frankly, I think it’s truth-value outweighs any of its kitschy flaws.
And lo, Carlos’s visage appeared upon the pancake, and there was peace throughout the world. (Wanna make your own miracle pancake? Head here. Also, many other fun and easy web-based pic-manipulation apps to try out. A personal favorite is the ASCII art generator.)
Adrian Owen and Steven Laureys, neurologists respectively from Cambridge and the University of Liège (Belgium), have proven that some people in persistent vegetative states are close to, and perhaps fully, aware and awake. Recently, they were able to verbally communicate with a male patient in a manner that, if it can be replicated, proves to my satisfaction [...]
This is the most creative salvo against corruption I think I have ever heard: giving Indian officials the printed notes shown above. And of course, like all good things, it comes from the professoriate. Courtesy of the World Bank Blogs: … the idea was first conceived by an Indian physics professor at the University of [...]
Just incredible: feast your eyes upon images scientists took of memories in the process of being formed. What you’re seeing above is the formation of a long-term memory. More specifically, you’re seeing proteins between the “pre- and post-synapse” synthesizing. That chemical reaction is what causes memories to be retained in the long term. But how? [...]
I still think the story of the double amputee who became a mermaid is heartwarming and wonderful, but in my last post on this issue, I asked the question, “How fast is she?” and speculated on the future speediness of cyborg mermaids. Well, the video below pretty much answers the question as to how fast [...]
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