Posted in Articles You Must Read, Med School on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wood density holds key to Stradivarius sweet sound
By Ben Hirschler Tue Jul 1, 9:02 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) – Researchers using a medical scanner have worked out why a Stradivarius violin sounds so good — it is because of the remarkably even density of the wood.
For the past 300 [...]
Posted in Articles You Must Read, Randomness on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Girl survives lightning strike, then wins lottery
Fri Jun 13, 7:33 PM ET
BLANCHARD, Mich. – No one quite understands the term “striking it lucky” better than 16-year-old BreAnna Helsel. The Michigan teen survived being struck by lightning and went on to win $20 in the lottery the next day.
Helsel was at her home [...]
Posted in Articles You Must Read, Randomness on June 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was on WebMD this morning looking up advice on sinus infections when I saw a curious little box on the page. It was a little slider that you can move from left to right to change age ranges, and under it was a list of diseases pertaining to that particular age range, with the [...]
Posted in Articles You Must Read on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MIT students are not all like this. In fact, most of us have enough common sense not to wear circuits on our clothing to an airport. Sigh, people like this make me wish MIT would conduct a common sense test instead of that freshman writing evaluation.
On the plus side, MIT made the front [...]
Posted in Articles You Must Read on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blood substitutes tied to higher risk of heart attack, death
The NIH is saying that experimental blood substitutes are linked to a higher risk of heart attack and death, and that human trials should be stopped immediately. I’ve been reading about the advent synthetic blood for the last decade, and it looks like we still [...]
Posted in Articles You Must Read on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well now you can be paid to eat chocolate every day for an entire year! Read on…
LONDON, England (CNN) — Scientists in the UK are seeking 150 women to eat chocolate every day for a year in the cause of medical research.
The trial, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, eastern England, will [...]
Posted in Articles You Must Read on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is one of the problems I have with the CDC calling it a flu “vaccine.” The word “vaccine” implies to most people that it will prevent them from acquiring the disease. Which leads many healthy adults age 18-45 to get their annual flu shot even though children and the elderly are the [...]
Posted in Articles You Must Read on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My friend’s sister is the girl in this CNN news article:
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (AP) — Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn’t enough when a computer programmer decided to pop the question.
At Bernie Peng and Tammy Li’s wedding, guests will receive copies of “Bejeweled.”
Bernie Peng reprogrammed Tammy Li’s favorite video game, “Bejeweled,” so [...]
Posted in Articles You Must Read, Med School on April 12, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I’ve been writing about this a lot over at SDN, but over the past few days a major scandal has broken out of Gainesville, FL. Dean Bruce Kone of the University of Florida College of Medicine recently admitted an applicant into the class of 2012 who had never taken the MCAT and did not [...]
