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Was this a more economical approach than launching those missions on an expendable rocket, and just building brand new satellites? The shuttle program launched 135 missions at a co…

Highly recommend this irreverent podcast by 2 engineers and former NASA contractors. They get out above their skies on some topics but the shuttle content is fun. Episode 1: Why do…

Critical care medic here. Adult CPR at least has some evidence in its favor on a population level, but only as a bridge to using electricity. CPR alone is merely slowing deaths arr…

His student Dani Daortiz is amazing to watch. https://youtu.be/5_KcQt0z-eE The explanation of this 10 minute act using a non-gimmicked deck of cards is 3 hours long. https://www.va…

Intuitive Surgical - Onsite in Sunnyvale, CA and Remote Internet famous for doing surgery on a grape: https://youtu.be/0XdC1HUp-rU?t=72 'Intuitive has been built by the efforts of …

The specific robot used was likely the da Vinci Xi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q-YQwFjIj0 Nice explanation of how a robotic sigmoid resection is performed: https://youtu.be/L…

I believe so... however it is gold unlike most of the media pics showing a white Lexus.

A vehicle with a similar external sensor array has been parked in a lot near my workplace every weekday at lunch time for the past several weeks. Given the proximity to AC3 at Cent…

A giant leap backwards in information density. The "in the news" section is just trending hashtag fluff. "Easier Navigation" == More clicks to access the same content. And best of …

For 8 years, this man had the option to walk humanity back from the threat of hair-trigger, launch-on-warning nuclear armageddon. An armageddon that would either destroy humanity i…

More unethical than manufacturers of nuclear weapons components, missiles and drones? Makes for a nice soundbite but I hope he doesn't actually believe this given Lockheed, Texas I…

There are many great interviews by Scott Horton with Scheuer. http://scotthorton.org/tag/michael-scheuer/

For evidence of the banality of these pseudo-intellectual studies compare how poorly Western militaries fare against impoverished, malnourished and illiterate insurgencies who lack…

On the AT up to a few weeks ago. A few hundred miles in a weekend hiker with one of these at a shelter let everyone recharge their devices and they were a modern Prometheus to us. …

Having to negotiate some paperwork is a small price to pay for not dying of an infection. The ER is required by law to provide you with care, regardless of your ability to pay, or …

In the sturm und drang that has resulted from this tragedy, and the weeks to come of hand wringing about terrorists/crazyfolk/etc across the major news networks, I hope against hop…

I'd like to again qualify my status as a non-expert with regards to the surgical aspects of trauma treatment and biochemistry. I have seen similar articles about the foam, and I mu…

I am a former critical care medic, and lack the scientific training to judge the merits of their claims about mechanism of action, but if history is any guide regarding ‘miracle’ p…

I should have fleshed out that thought more fully. I agree it's a mouthful, but I was trying to convey that we no longer have to believe in such strange (bad) ideas because we have…

It's obviously very hard to convey how much one advances in their practice in an objective manner without having an fMRI. The only real 'data point' I have in support of my experie…

I completed my first 10 day Vipassana course recently, and genuinely believe that a slightly modified version of the course should be an essential component of any person’s psychol…

Daniel Ellsberg discusses this in a great talk at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. The US didn't think Khrushchev was insane enough to delegate control over the weapons (which we …

While the doctor's office may have been the proximate agent asking him to 'lie', the true culprit is the incomprehensible, self-contradictory system that elected and unelected bure…