My backyard in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this morning. This is what thundersnow does to a city. Continue reading
Month: January 2011
Lily Vanilli is selling hyper-realistic Bleeding Heart Cakes for people to send on Valentine’s Day. 20% of all sales will be donated to Trekstock, a music and fashion charity that raises awareness and support for young people with cancer. Continue reading
How I use tumblr…and I wish I could pay them.
Tumblr powers my online existence. My blog is now over 3 years old with 1998 posts and 11,166 followers. I also have a static site with info about my education, my press, etc.. I connect my Facebook and Twitter to my tumblr. I have no time for them and very little interest in what Facebook has become. I log in to Facebook maybe once every 3 weeks. … Continue reading How I use tumblr…and I wish I could pay them.
Seth’s Blog: Eight Lessons from the life and work of Jack LaLanne
He bootstrapped himself. A scrawny little kid at 15, he decided to change who he was and how he was perceived, and then he did. The deciding was as important as the doing. He went to the edges. He didn’t merely open a small gym, a more pleasant version of a boxing gym, for instance. Instead, he created the entire idea of a health … Continue reading Seth’s Blog: Eight Lessons from the life and work of Jack LaLanne
Two Americas: Healthcare.
A few people have asked me to comment on Atul Gawande’s most recent piece in The New Yorker, The Hot Spotters. Here’s a snapshot: “He found that between January of 2002 and June of 2008 some nine hundred people in [just] two buildings in Camden, NJ accounted for more than four thousand hospital visits and about two hundred million dollars. One patient had three hundred … Continue reading Two Americas: Healthcare.
WSJ: Electronic Medical Records Don’t Improve Outpatient Care Quality
So let me get this straight…a doctor using a computer in a doctor’s office doesn’t significantly influence how their patients live their lives?? It’s absurd that someone would even think that somehow a doctor using a computer encourages people to change their lifestyle and take their health more seriously. Hey Obama…did you just waste the $20B you’ve appropriated toward giving doctors EMRs? Or was that … Continue reading WSJ: Electronic Medical Records Don’t Improve Outpatient Care Quality
New iPhone app: Fire Department: It prompts you to ask if you’ve been trained in CPR and would be willing to help a stranger in the event of an emergency. If you accept this, then the application will take advantage of the iPhone’s location monitoring to get a general sense of where you are (a new feature enabled with the most recent update allows this … Continue reading
For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. CQ (via kateoplis) See also, How to save a friend from the brink. Continue reading
nevver: “Things I Have Learned in My Life”, Stefan Sagmeister Continue reading
Ever get the feeling that medicine has a circular history? 2000 B.C. – Here, eat this root. 1000 A.D. – That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer. 1850 A.D. – That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion. 1940 A.D. – That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill. 1985 A.D. – That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic. 2000 A.D. – That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat … Continue reading
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