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Medical news and weblog aggregator.

This is a weblog specifically for personal medical stories. Many many interesting things happen in hospitals, clinics, schools, hospices, at ball games, recitals, and on planes and trains. Almost everyone that comes into contact with someone in some sort of medical situation has at least one good story, be it an RN, MD, LPN, nurse's aide, unit clerk, unit support, manager, or volunteer.

Join me as I half-ass my way through medical school, encountering all sorts of freaks (patients, classmates, myself, etc.) along the way

From doctors, to doctors, we're bringing you the latest in medical news and medical lifestyle.

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Presenting science to kids in a way that is fun, intelligent, and engaging is practically a science itself, so when we found out about "Peep and the Big Wide World," we just had to post about it. In fact, the review we found on The Creative Science Quarterly is so right on, that we may take the easy way out and just repost it here. "On most mornings, somewhere in the landscape of childrens television, you can hear Taj Mahal singing and Joan Cusack narrating not about sharing, or taking turns, or telling the truth, or even potty training for that matter, but actually on (of all things) science. Funded in part by the National Science Foundation, Im referring to a program called Peep and the Big Wide World, a quaint animated offering which follows the adventures of Peep, Quack, and Chirp (a chick, a duck, and a robin), as they explore and discover all the things that go in their little world. I know about this show because I happen to be a scientist with a vested interest in acts of science education. And I also know about this show because I happen to have two young children, who find it both amusing and engaging enough to sit still for its entirety. Of course, my children dont [care] about it being science and all. And they certainly wouldnt even begin to understand the irony of using characters that, in my circle of colleagues, currently represent reservoirs for both the Avian Flu Virus and the West Nile Virus (the duck, of course, has the funniest lines, possibly because he knows that he alone is the asymptomatic carrier). But at the end of the day, I think that this is all really beside the point. And thats because the point is this: we should be impressed because the show succeeds in talking effectively to the general public about science. And it does this by being different, creative, charming and yet informative which believe me is no easy task."

A continent-wide seismic observatory called USArray is marching its way across America beginning in California to provide scientists with earthquake data to study active tectonics and deep earth structure across the continent. The transportable telemetered array of 400 unmanned broadband seismometers are arranged in a grid with an approximate 70 km station spacing. The data are transmitted in real time through the USArray Network Facility at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This movie shows how the USArray seismometers will be moved eastward every two years to eventually cover the entire the United States. Permanent stations (yellow triangles above) will also be emplaced. The program has currently covered the state of California and much of Oregon and Washington. More than a Gigabyte of data are recorded everyday from 100 stations and viewed on a tiled, 50-megapixel display at IGPP. You can view the 100 most recently recorded earthquakes from the array on the ANF website and find information for downloading data for research through the EarthScope website. Need a thesis topic? There will be more than enough data from this program to keep seismologists busy for years.

What you are reading is an experiment of sorts, a web publication that will attempt to be, well different, creative, charming and yet informative. Were hoping to provide an online (and future print) platform that will accept all types of scientific writing. This will include those that plough through material in a journalistic or review style, or those that skip daintily, poignantly, humorously, or even angrily into creative writing. I suppose our own little holy grail would be to present an assortment of well written science literature in all of its possible connotations.

The OpenScience project is dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software. We are a group of scientists, mathematicians and engineers who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world. OpenScience.org is also a place to park a blog for Dan Gezelter, the director of the project. Hes a chemistry professor at Notre Dame who specializes in theoretical and computational chemistry. Hes also an open source evangelist, the original author of Jmol, and the leader of the OOPSE development group.

This weblog (by John Dupuis) features links and pointers to information of interest to academic science librarians. Since science librarians do many of the same things as other academic librarians, most postings will probably apply to any librarian in an academic setting. Oh yeah, I'm also a science fiction fan, so some of that stuff will appear here, too.

Explore real-world math and science here!

A Science Blog from freelance science writer David Bradley: Irreverent... Irrelevant... Intelligent... (The Guardian)

Science Bistro / The Culture of Science is a web magazine and a radio show featuring stories about the culture of science: science and the people behind the science.

Nobel Intent is Ars Technica's science-centric journal.

What has three wheels, folds like an umbrella, runs on electricity, and can scoot you around campus at a zippy 9.5 mph (15 km/h)? It's the sleek little Rider. Small enough to carry around with you on the subway and tuck discretely in your office, it's perfect for riding between the subway and home or office and for little trips across campus. The Rider has a front wheel motor, uses regenerative braking, and runs on a 24 volt rechargable battery that lasts for up to four hours. Reportedly, its best feature is that it leans as you corner, making it more maneuverable than typical tricycles. The Rider is designed by Elisha Wetherhorn, who is looking for a partner or two to manufacture the Rider and bring it to market. Any takers? (via Treehugger)

"Millions upon millions of the world's population today are fearful of A-bomb attack. Hanging over our heads is the atomic sword of Damocles." So begins the 1950 publication of Atomic Bombing: How to Protect Yourself by the non-profit science news organization Science Service, known today largely for writing science news for school kids. The book, now hosted online in its entirety by Josh Karpf, describes in gripping detail what might happen in a nuclear attack. "At a point 2,000 feet above the ground, the first atomic rocket of World War III explodes over your city. In one vast flash of light, equal to 100 suns, the buildings are etched against a sky of fire.... There, in a millionth of a second, a lump of plutonium or uranium, perhaps the size of a basketball, disappears. As it vanishes, the temperature at that point jumps to 1,000,000 degrees Centigrade.... A thousandth of a second later, the ball of fire is 45 feet across. Its temperature has dropped to 300,000 degrees. After a full second, there is a globe of flaming air 450 feet wide, the size of a city block. The shadows cast by this ball of fire are etched permanently into concrete sidewalks and granite buildings. Directly beneath the burst, in the split second before the blast wave arrives, pedestrians simply vanish into smoke and ash. This is the point which atomic scientists call "ground zero." Here the sidewalk temperature is between 3,000 and 4,000 degrees." Written in a matter-of-fact, Father-Knows-Best tone, some passages are so scary, they're almost comical. "Each generation is born, lives and dies. The A-bomb, if it comes, like any disaster, will prune human lives. Finally each of us must die. It is a question of timing."

Quick, what's a Pele's hair? A pahoeohe flow? A fumarole? These are just some of the terms on the US Geological Survey (USGS) photo glossary of volcano terms. Just click any word or phrase, like "effusive eruption" (pictured right), and you'll find cool photos, detailed descriptions, and various volcano trivia with which to impress your friends. There are other handy pages on the USGS volcano website, which is intertwined with the Smithsonian volcano program pages, including a weekly volcanic activity report, regional volcano maps, and a comprehensive database of information on volcanoes from around the world.

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