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Prestige Matters

Yes, I know, another NYT article. When I don’t have time to read, I read this, and the paper my family gets, only I read that one in hardcopy so it’s harder to quote …
In any case, an article about the medical/legal professions, titled, “The Falling-Down Professions”
Says that the quick-fix generation isn’t likely to [...]

A fun link

I’ll put this in Links (under medical) too, but check out this anatomy site: http://www.winkingskull.com.
You can learn all the parts of your body, and then test yourself on them. I haven’t done this yet; most of what I learned in highschool biology went in through my eyes, and spilled out onto the page, ne’er [...]

Your Cyborg Future is Here (part II)

This YouTube video shows off something very interesting, something I think is the wave of the future; mechanical body parts, moveable via brain waves. The mechanism reads your brain waves, and performs the action, so that (for instance), one can think “go left” when in a game online, or “curl fingers,” and the action [...]

litigious societies and liberty at work (Re: Staph infections)

I wrote the following response to other readers’ responses to this article about drug-resistant staph infections:
To 241, Linyo: We live in a litigious society. If your doctor doesn’t prescribe the antibiotics and your child gets very sick, you sue the doctor. He or she is already paying near half his or her income [...]

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