This peculiar lobster has a perfect split down the middle orange and black. It was discovered by a l..(Read...)
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Orange and black lobster
Tiny Scale Replica of an 18th Century Tool Chest
Tiny Scale Replica of an 18th Century Tool Chest:
William Robertson made this 1/12th scale replica of an 18th century tool chest from Colonial Wi..(Read...)
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Barbie Anatomy Model by Jason Freeny
Barbie Anatomy Model by Jason Freeny:
Barbie Anatomy Model by artist Jason Freeny...(Read...)
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Insectes - Woman-Insect Creatures
Insectes - Woman-Insect Creatures:
Photographer Laurent Seroussi has created a body of work entitled Insectes. Awesome!..(Read...)
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Ecce Homo Restoration
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Wieliczka Salt Mine — A world treasure unknown outside eastern Europe
Wieliczka Salt Mine — A world treasure unknown outside eastern Europe
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From Wikipedia:
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The mine, built in the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 2007, as one of the world's oldest salt mines still in operation.
[From an email accompanying a number of these photos: "It may feel like you are in the middle of a Jules Verne adventure as you descend into the depths of the world. After a 500-foot climb down wooden stairs, the visitor will see some amazing sights."]
From its beginning and throughout its existence, the Royal mine was run by the Żupy krakowskie Salt Mines.
Commercial mining was discontinued in 1996 due to low salt prices and mine flooding."
The mine's attractions include dozens of statues and an entire chapel that has been carved out of the rock salt by the miners.
The oldest sculptures are augmented by the new carvings by actual artists.
About 1.2 million people visit the Wieliczka Salt Mine annually.
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[via Virginia Moore]
BehindTheMedspeak: Why your doctor's ability to depersonalize is a good thing
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On the surface, it would seem that having a doctor who treats you with distancing coolness and apparent indifference to your greatest concerns would be one you wouldn't want to have anything to do with.
Let me cut to the chase, and make what could be a 5,000-word essay brief: just the opposite is sometimes true.
Let us say, for example, that you are the second patient on a neurosurgeon's schedule, for planned excision of a meningioma (brain tumor).
You've had months of being worked up and tested — been seen by specialist after specialist, had countless blood tests, x-rays, MRIs, CT scans, angiograms, the works — and many sleepless nights, wondering if you'd wake up at all from the anesthesia and, if so, if you might be blind, deaf, paralyzed, any number of possible complications you've been informed of.
Your family is sick with worry.
You wait in the holding area, your IV in place, after having been brought over from the outpatient admission suite.
The nurse tells you it's time to go into the OR, the orderly comes to wheel you down the hall.
You're taken into the OR, the nurses and anesthesiologist flutter and fuss all around you, you're all set for anesthesia induction.
Your surgeon comes into the room, says hello, tells you things should go fine, and off you go into never-never land as the anesthesiologist pushes the propofol.
What you didn't know right then — and will never know, and had no reason to know — is that the surgeon's previous patient had bled into her brain during an attempted aneurysm repair, so much so that the surgeon had had to clamp a major artery to stop the hemorrhaging.
In doing so he'd sacrificed blood flow and oxygenation to the patient's speech center, to the extent that it was irreparably damaged such that she'll never talk again.
How did he know that?
She was mute after regaining consciousness in the recovery room.
The neurosurgeon had explained the complication to the patient's family, then gone and had a Coke before returning to the OR for your case.
Do you want him to be thinking about how what had gone wrong and what he might have done differently as he begins to open your skull?
Do you want him to be upset about his damaged patient to the extent that he can't concentrate while he enters your subdural space and prepares to delineate the boundries of your tumor under the operating microscope?
I don't think so.
I think you'd much rather he not think at all about what had happened hours ago to his previous patient.
In my country we call that depersonalization — thinking about a person as just a complication, an unfortunate statistic.
And in my neck of the woods, we like that in a neurosurgeon.
He can care all he likes and fret and ruminate on his mistake and lose sleep, however much he wants — but please, not while he's in my brain.
Or yours.
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Bug Bite De-Itcher — Episode 2: Electronic means of suppression
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Commented reader John Rausch on yesterday's Therapik post, "These thermal devices do not have good reviews. In Europe they sell small piezoelectric devices that apply a small current to the bite. I have had one for some time and it works quite well for me. I have brought many home for friends and most are pleased as well. For some people, it does not seem to help. Psychological? I have asked the manufacturer, Techmed in Italy, if I can get them in the U.S., and they told me they are considered a medical device and the cost and red tape to get them approved is not worth it to them. Maybe this French Amazon retailer will sell you one illegally. It appears so."
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The View From Below — Michael Rohde
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From Junk Culture: "German photographer Michael Rohde Aden creates virtually impossible views of interiors shot from below the floor. His pictures are made up of hundreds of individual photos. Cupboards, drawers and fridges are photographed from below and then reassembled into a single seamless composite image."
[via and Kay (Leah)]
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Therapik Bug Bite De-Itcher
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That's different.
Pocket-size device uses heat which is said to "deactivate" the venom of insects and sea creatures."
From the device website: "Most insect venom is thermolabile (sensitive to heat). Therapik®'s patented technology delivers heat in the specific temperature range necessary to neutralize the venom from over 20,000 different species of insects and sea creatures."
Does it work?
You tell me.
[via Gizmodo, The Awesomer, and Richard Kashdan]
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