January 2012
77 posts
“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)
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via creatingaquietmind)
“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his...”
– St Francis of Assisi (via jamesraven)
“But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult...”
– Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle (via teachingliteracy)
Sopa: What Is SOPA? (via @Gizmodo) →
If you hadn’t heard of SOPA before, you probably have by now: Some of the internet’s most influential sites—Reddit and Wikipedia among them—are going dark to protest the much-maligned anti-piracy bill.
“Congress appropriates military funds with alacrity and generosity. It...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich...”
– Edward O. Wilson (via lukiasmiles)
Yeah…just goes to show incredibly insignificant us humans are…
(via dreamdrifter)
“The New Groupthink has overtaken our workplaces, our schools and our religious...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com (via robot-heart)
“Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply...”
– Lao Tzu (via girlwithoutwings)
“ “Nature may reach the same result in many ways. Like a wave in the physical...”
– Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor, mechanical and electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity (1856-1943), The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla, Barnes & Noble, 1992, p. 298. (via amiquote)
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we...”
– Ivan Turgenev (via kari-shma)
