According to the article, Keukenhof will be commemorating the "400 years of the historic relationship between the United States and the Netherlands". Huh?
I don't see what's so wrong about the article. It's not saying you should use pine cones or anything. Since most people don't see fit to read the article before going on a rant, I'll summarize the main argument: making recycled toilet paper is more energy efficient than making them from trees and the non-bleached kind means less crap being dumped in the water. Both reasonable claims and hardly qualifies this as "eco-agitprop". I use a cheap 100% recycled TP and it's really not bad. Saves me money and my ass feels just fine.
not exactly new, but still neat. Here's a national geographic article a few years back about training dogs to find cancers: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0820_040820_detectordogs.html
I can't find the link, but a few years back there was also a cat that predicted who would be the next to die at a nursing home.
@Alex. Surgeons do have checklists. They call them "timeouts" and one of the jobs of the surgical nurses is to make sure this happens before surgery begins. They've had them for years, but compliance is variable depending on doctors and institutions. I personally am a big supporter of all encompassing electronic medical records just because they prevent alot of errors and save on redundant tests. Perhaps what might work is some sort of RFID or bar code system where a surgeon has to enter the procedure they intend to do and that entry can be compared with another one entered by a physican during the pre-operative evaluation. That would force compliance if billing were contingent on the the completion of this process prior to the procedure and it is more difficult to fudge compared to paper records as the time of entry is logged.
Yeah... I don't think it's actually any safer with regards to avoiding hearing loss. My understanding of hearing is that information from sound goes through:
Air --> eardrum --> small bones in inner ear --> cochlear fluid --> hairs --> nerve brain
With bone conduction you just replace "Air" and "eardrum" with "Bone". There is no sparing of anything downstream so it should have the same potential for causing hearing loss compared to regular headphones.
And to those who continue to ding Obama for not being 100% black, a big "thank you captain obvious". We all know that. The point is that society treats him as a black man and he was able to succeed in spite of the barriers that minorities in this country face. Even if he's half white, he is a hero for many black children, many of whom need a positive role model outside athletics and the entertainment industry.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0820_040820_detectordogs.html
I can't find the link, but a few years back there was also a cat that predicted who would be the next to die at a nursing home.
Air --> eardrum --> small bones in inner ear --> cochlear fluid --> hairs --> nerve brain
With bone conduction you just replace "Air" and "eardrum" with "Bone". There is no sparing of anything downstream so it should have the same potential for causing hearing loss compared to regular headphones.
And to those who continue to ding Obama for not being 100% black, a big "thank you captain obvious". We all know that. The point is that society treats him as a black man and he was able to succeed in spite of the barriers that minorities in this country face. Even if he's half white, he is a hero for many black children, many of whom need a positive role model outside athletics and the entertainment industry.