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A Graduating Medical Student's Final Reflections: Running in the Right Direction
Two years ago, during my second year of medical school, my classmates and I sat in cramped auditorium chairs as our instructor presented us with a clinical scenario. We were learning about arrhythmias, and our instructor flipped through slides of different ECG patterns, asking how we would respond to each. […]Keep reading » Symbiartic
Wrapped in the World
C é line Semaan of Slow Factory has teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund to to launch Petit Atlas , a sustainable clothing collection inspired by images of the Earth itself. Using NASA satellite imagery, the collection features traditionally-dyed silk of islands, a phytoplankton bloom and even a volcano, all seen from space. […]Keep reading »Plugged In
[Report] Their Rates Might Be Higher, But Germans Pay Less Than Americans for Electricity
Germans easily pay twice as much as many Americans for a kilowatt-hour of electricity. But, German households actually pay less per month on their power bills according to analysis published this week by Craig Morris at the German Energy Transition (Energiewende). […]Keep reading »Cocktail Party Physics
Physics Week in Review: May 30, 2015
First up: feast your eyes on this Stunning, Multi-Wavelength Image Of The Solar Atmosphere , courtesy of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, showing a brilliant array of “coronal loops,” magnetic fluxes which form around sunspots and extend into the solar atmosphere. […]Keep reading »Rosetta Stones
Greetings from Castle Rock: Humongous Hummocks Edition
The weather did its best to ruin our plans today, but we defied it mightily. We didn't get a single glimpse of Mount St. Helens - unless you count the 2.5 cubic kilometers of the summit we hiked over. Don't get the jacuzzi suite if you intend to get an early start, cuz it won't happen. […]Keep reading »- Tetrapod Zoology
Speculative Zoology at Tet Zoo, The Story So Far
Speculative Zoology (regarded here as a subset of Speculative Biology or Speculative Evolution) has been a regular presence at Tet Zoo since 2007. Long-time readers will know that I – and many others, I’m sure – have slightly confused feelings as goes our love of Spec. […]Keep reading » SA Anecdotes from the Archive
The Teeth of the Submarine, 1915
Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: May 29, 1915 Some of the articles on military subjects in Scientific American lack specific details, pointing to a decision made somewhere to curtail the journalist’s access to the people in the know or places or things of military importance. […]Keep reading »Life, Unbounded
1,776 Portraits of a Comet
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Between the 23rd of September and the 21st of November 2014 ESA's Rosetta mission made its closest orbital passes of Comet 67-P/C-G, coming to within 8 km of the surface during and after Philae's plucky landing sequence. […]Keep reading »Roots of Unity
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Topologist's Sine Curve
There are four basic properties of sets that beginning analysis and topology students see: open, closed , compact, and connected. Of those properties, it seems like connectedness should be the easiest. Connected has a pretty clear meaning in English. […]Keep reading »Plugged In
Climate Change Low among Our Keystone Pipeline Concerns
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation , an online publication covering the latest research. A big battle over the Keystone XL pipeline is under way in Washington, DC. But, it’s mostly fought on terms that don’t matter to the American people. […]Keep reading »
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