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Brain aneurysm is truly something terrible, I lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. (She was 22 at the time and in good health). She just woke up one day in the middle of the night with a headache and had to vomit. On the way to the hospital she fell into a coma and never woke up. Really scary.

So what can be done preventatively against a brain aneurysm?

Seems like there is something called a Magnetic Resonance Angiography.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

#112

Brain aneurysm is truly something terrible, I lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. (She was 22 at the time and in good health). She just woke up one day in the middle of the night with a headache and had to vomit. On the way to the hospital she fell into a coma and never woke up. Really scary.

So what can be done preventatively against a brain aneurysm? Seems like there is something called a Magnetic Resonance Angiography.

Looks like the shift from 3T to 7T will really open up what they can see inside the brain:

https://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=rca&sub=ecr_2019&p...

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#113

Brain aneurysm is truly something terrible, I lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. (She was 22 at the time and in good health). She just woke up one day in the middle of the night with a headache and had to vomit. On the way to the hospital she fell into a coma and never woke up. Really scary.

My significant other (23 at the time, otherwise perfectly healthy) felt a sudden headache one evening. Since it didn't stop, she was taken to the emergency room immediately, where they've dismissed her with "menstrual problems". A day after that the pain didn't stop, she ended up in the hospital, and had a (fortunately successful) brain operation some days later. Luckily it was in an accessible place, so she ended up…

4% seems to be a scary high number.

Glad your SO made it fine.

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Fuck. Grant has always been a shining example of engineering spirit. I have looked up to him for a long time.

I remember when they were testing the aerodynamics of something in Mythbusters and needed a quick way to create laminar flow. Grant's solution was to cut both ends of a pack of drinking straws and put it inline with the airflow. Such an elegantly brilliant idea.

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#116
Ugh. This one hits hard. I stopped watching MythBusters before he even left the show, but it was one of those shows we always watched in college and his robots were always the best. What a tragic and sad loss.

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#117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to think of him as a celebrity, even. He felt just like a guy you'd hang out with at work or after work.

This is not relevant, but this strikes me as a big cultural difference between wherever you're from and where I'm from. Here, the first thought to complete that sentence would be "he strikes me as someone you'd be friends with". I wonder why "hang out at work" was the first thing that came to mind for you. Here we don't tend to think in terms of "people we hang out with after work", we generally have "friends we firs…

I'm not sure where are you from initially but I think it's a flaw with english language itself. There are just too few words to describe relationships in english, everything is very binary, e.g. You either love someone or you don't where other languages are have many more words to describe your relationship with someone; see famous example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not relevant, but this strikes me as a big cultural difference between wherever you're from and where I'm from. Here, the first thought to complete that sentence would be "he strikes me as someone you'd be friends with". I wonder why "hang out at work" was the first thing that came to mind for you. Here we don't tend to think in terms of "people we hang out with after work", we generally have "friends we firs…

I'm not sure where are you from initially but I think it's a flaw with english language itself. There are just too few words to describe relationships in english, everything is very binary, e.g. You either love someone or you don't where other languages are have many more words to describe your relationship with someone; see famous example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

I'm actually from Greece, and while we still use most of those words, we have about the same words as English does (friends, acquaintances, lovers, etc).

We just rarely use "people you hang out with after work" as a category, if you went out on a work dinner, we say acquaintances, if you regularly hang out, they're friends.

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#119

Brain aneurysm is truly something terrible, I lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. (She was 22 at the time and in good health). She just woke up one day in the middle of the night with a headache and had to vomit. On the way to the hospital she fell into a coma and never woke up. Really scary.

So what can be done preventatively against a brain aneurysm? Seems like there is something called a Magnetic Resonance Angiography.

About 1 per 100,000 people have a ruptured brain aneurysm each year. You have to screen a whole lot of people to detect one person who will suffer from this.

Worse, you'll get a whole lot of "positives" / questionable imagery in people who would never have had a problem, and may end up giving some not insignificant number of people unnecessary brain surgery.

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#120
Grant Imahara’s curiosity, energy, and brilliance have taught millions of folks the unbridled joy of how to be bewildered by the world and overcome that with sober, rational, reason and scientific method. It gives me hope how the celebration of Grant front and center in my networks.
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