April 2010
91 posts
Early iPad Reviews: NYTimes, USA Today, All Things... →
Very positive.
What's New in UpToDate 18.1. Perfect for... →
Does viewing data about your life increase healthy... →
We’re already successfully measuring our lives today with our money (Mint), with our social relationships (Facebook), and our physical locations (Foursquare).Yesterday I posed a…
March 2010
81 posts
The Doctor Will Google You Now →
I know you Google your doctor. But would it surprise you to learn that your doctor Googles you?
According to a recent essay in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, the practice is not all that…
Premium HDMI Cables Are A Rip-Off →
China Mieville On J.G. Ballard →
The publication of any book by J.G. Ballard at this moment—let alone so
colossal and career-spanning a volume as The Complete Stories,
running to nearly 1,200 pages—is an occurrence that…
Via degli Asini - Brisighella →
Photo by: ♫ Salix
Is there a name for the ritualistic exchanging of iPhones to see which apps your friend has installed? If not, there should be.
Hunch twitter predictor game →
Hunch predicts facts about you using only your Twitter name.
CrashPlan: free automatic, secure backup →
CrashPlan is automatic backup for your life. Back up to local drives, other computers and online for protection in all situations. CrashPlan provides award-winning online backup, secure backup, simple backup, unlimited backup, remote backup and free backup for your photos, documents and files. For Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris.
The future of mobile medical technology: Summary... →
If you’ve been following our site, you know the iMedicalApps Team was at HIMSS 2010 earlier this month, where we covered the conference in great detail.
Voices: Early Diagnoses of the New Law →
Health care experts on what the heath care overhaul will mean for Americans, sick and well alike.
When did New York City buses get all retro with the pull-cords?
Interview with Jay Parkinson (Herman Miller Blog) →
Making Treme, 14-minute featurette on the making... →
Making Treme, 14-minute featurette on the making of David Simon’s upcoming New Orleans HBO series. (via resoulution)
Boom! Tweets & Maps Swarm to Pinpoint a Mysterious... →
What would you do if you heard a giant boom and you didn’t know where it came from? If you’re like thousands of people in Portland, Oregon, you might hit Twitter and Google Maps to participate in…
The 500 Worst Passwords Illustrated →
Kate Bingaman-Burt has created an illustration of the 500 worst passwords as listed in the book “Perfect Password: Selection, Protection, Authentication” by Mark Burnett.
This should…
80 Photographs of Tokyo in HDR →
A Primer on Behaviorism for Children, in Slate →
The very idea of rewarding children for good behavior rubs a lot of adults the wrong way. Even when they accept that positive reinforcement changes behavior a lot more effectively than punishment…
Atul Gawande: The next attacks on health-care... →
On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law. In public memory, what ensued was the smooth establishment of a popular program, but in fact Medicare faced a year of nearly…
Metropolitan Diary →
A shouting match is not what it appears to be and neither is that painting’s frame. That’s life in New York.
Image of the Week: Italian anatomical waxwork →
This week’s image comes from the Italian anatomical waxworks set on the Stanford Medicine Flickr photo stream. The sculpture itself was created by Clemente Susini sometime between 1757 and…
Carrots, sticks, and lower premiums. →
Grant was the co-founder of Virgin Healthmiles many moons ago. A story about Virgin Healthmiles, Redbrick Health (nice work Kyle!), and Tangerine Wellness is in the New York Times…
Why the iPad Will Change Everything - Dan Lyons in... →
The iPad will change the way you use computers, read books, and watch TV—as long as you’re willing to do it the Steve Jobs way.
And It's Gone: Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5 →
Email Flowchart →
So, so, so accurate
Testing, Testing by Atul Gawande : The New Yorker →
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. Those gaps have widened to become…
“Spoiler alert. Atul’s Gawandes new book, The Checklist Manifesto, begins...”
– The Checklist Manifesto Reviewed
Earth Hour 2010 →
March 27, 2010 at 8:30pm local time is Earth Hour. Across the world, as the Earth Hour approaches, people,…
The Daily Dish →
A single-serving blog featuring the work of Klari Reis, who posted one of her petri dish paintings for every day of 2009.
How low can we go for blood pressure control? →
The much awaited results from the ACCORD-BP trial were recently presented at the ACC scientific session in Atlanta and published online in the NEJM on March 14th. The Action to Control
The Mysteriously “Alarming” Pacemaker Case →
I received this email from a dear friend of mine recently:
So, for the last 2 1/2 weeks my husband and I have been seranaded with alarm tones every day. We thought it was the new alarm…
“The implications of this simple experiment shed some light on consumer behavior,...”
– Monkeys choose variety for variety’s sake
Behind the iPad, decades of clever technology →
Bant: “A Free Diabetes App for the ePatient” http://ping.fm/yl8T4
“Now@NEJM” — The New England Journal of Medicine begins blogging. http://ping.fm/4dSVt
NEJM — Untangling the Web — Patients, Doctors, and the Internet http://ping.fm/ptska
Catching Up: 3 Interviews from a Cooling Crucible http://goo.gl/fb/Q4tM
Google Alerts Gmail Users to Suspicious Logins http://goo.gl/fb/xPLE
Dreamlike animation illustrating Fibonacci sequence, Golden Ratio, and more - Boing Boing http://goo.gl/fb/eE51
Doing Less Stuff Better: Another Interview with Merlin Mann. http://ping.fm/yQvZn
The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets http://goo.gl/fb/oAUT
Public service message: Use secure passwords; Check out lastpass.com & 1password.com. (Yes, someone’s old unused hotmail acct. got hacked.)
Freakonomics interview with Atul Gawande (2007). Still relevant. http://ping.fm/g55mC