February 2012
11 posts
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs (via elige)
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via observedintoexistence)
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are...”
– Katharine Hepburn (via kari-shma)
January 2012
95 posts
Susan G. Komen vs. Planned Parenthood →
boocanceryousuck:
Well, there you have it. As if the services provided by Planned Parenthood were not already in enough peril now this gets thrown in the mix. This isn’t making me like the whole uber pink Susan G. Komen foundation any more than I already didn’t. I realize they do a lot of good for a lot of women, but so does Planned Parenthood. It’s time to take this whole pro-choice/not...
The Cost of Knowledge →
climateadaptation:
Is there enough momentum to push sci-journals to go open-source? This petition initiative thinks so. If you’re a researcher and are looking to publish, have a look at “The Cost of Knowledge” and consider boycotting Elsevier.
science:
Science should be open. If you support that sentiment, this initiative is good news. It is a call for researchers to declare a boycott of...
Watchintothecontinuum:
Music generated with Otomata! Continuous variation in the parameter “a” starting at a = 0 Unknown code parameters : r, a(final), s
Visuals created with Mathematica code:
Manipulate[
Graphics[
Line[
Table[
{-r^n*Sin[n*a], r^n*Cos[n*a]}, {n, 0, s}]],
PlotRange -> .01],
{r, .1, 1}, {a, 0.001, 4*Pi, .00001}, {s, 1, 10000, 1]
Mesmerizing and relaxing.
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
– Albert Camus (via quote-book)
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living (via justconqueryourself)
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody...”
– Andy Warhol (via observedintoexistence)
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
– Aesop (via julie911)
“This sort of work isn’t stealing anything from creators. It’s enhancing its...”
– The Fan-Made Star Wars Uncut Is the Greatest Viral Video Ever — Vulture
(via wreckandsalvage)
I hope anyone unfamiliar with Star Wars Uncut will take a look at it right now. (via topherchris)
“A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with...”
– The Dalai Lama (via goldentulips)
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are right.”
– Henry Ford (via summergirl88)
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Social Media and Medicine with @amyvernon et. al.... →
This past fall, I was fortunate enough to convince Amy Vernon, Amy Grantham, and Terry Hall to speak about social media in medicine. They did a fantastic job of presenting what social media is, how patients use it and some of the pitfalls for health professionals. We got fantastic feedback, which doesn’t surprise me given the great presentations. It’s long but you should be able to...
“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both...”
– Arthur C. Clarke (via kapi)
harleemai.: today is the day. →
harleemai:
in the early 90s, my dad was diagnosed with cancer. my parents decided that they wanted to have a kid in order to have a part of him live on, and create a legacy. i was then conceived. i am a cancer child.
now don’t get me wrong, i do not have cancer, nor am i more susceptible to getting it in…
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via kari-shma)
“Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity...”
– Bertrand Russell (via philphys)
Open knowledge saves lives. Oppose H.R. 3699! via... →
If you care about digital rights and oppose SOPA and PIPA, read on. Current U.S. law supports National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research being freely available to the public. Academic journals are trying to change the law to restrict access to research that may affect your health.
Both as a doctor and as a patient, I want to have access to medical research funded by the...
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“The new propaganda, having regard to the constitution of society as a whole, not...”
– Edward Bernays in Propaganda , p.57 (via subatomicdoc)
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to...”
– Muhammad Ali (via observedintoexistence)
