Because my brain is too small to rememeber all these junks…
World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.
I guess it’s like Google Earth. Some of the screenshots are absolutely amazing.
Chocolate Linked to Lower Blood Pressure - Yahoo! News
[Dutch] researchers examined the eating habits of 470 healthy men who were not taking blood pressure medicine. The men who ate the most products made from cocoa beans — including cocoa drinks, chocolate bars and chocolate pudding — had lower blood pressure and a 50 percent lower risk of death.
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Cocoa beans contain flavanols, which are thought to increase nitric oxide in the blood and improve the function of blood vessels.
Obviously, eating too much chocolates can lead to over-weight problem, which is strongly linked to other health risks. Moderation is the key to everything in life. There’s a write up of this news also at Scientific American.
(I blogged about the aphrodisiac effect of chocolates earlier)
Strangest thing happened on my Tahoe trip last weekend. I usually can’t “go”-_- in the morning without a reading material, so I grabbed the Gideons bible. Before opening it, I tried to remember the verse that was mentioned in the Alchemist… but of course, my brain is full of too many random crap to remember such things, and without access to my Right Brain Archive, I was helpless. So I just flipped thru a random page and started reading… Then the verses started to sound strangely familiar and I realized that I was at the same passage that I was trying to look for!!! What is the chance of that?!
Update: My friend Lorraine just asked me what I felt about Coincidences. And she didn’t even read this blog entry! Umm… this is getting creepy…
Ok… this video mashup thing is really starting to take off. (I’ll stop embedding video players and use direct links instead)
Here’s a genius mash up of Toy Story 2 as trailer for Requiem for a Dream. Watch it at YouTube or download the wmv file here.
(via BoingBoing)
Requiem for a Dream is a movie about 3 friends, and their rise and fall (then fall… and fall even more) of their lives as heroine junkies. It’s one of the best movie I’ve ever seen, but I never ever want to watch again. “Ass to ass!!” yikes… still gives me the *shudders*
Malcolm Gladwell, popular author of The Tipping Point and Blink, started blogging. Cool~
(via BoingBoing)
LOL (Thanks Lorraine!)
Stoclet Frise : Fullfilment
Great virtual gallery of Kilmt’s works, powered by Expo-shop.com You can also find galleries of Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet, and many others there.
Why Doctors So Often Get It Wrong - New York Times
With all the tools available to modern medicine — the blood tests and M.R.I.’s and endoscopes — you might think that misdiagnosis has become a rare thing. But you would be wrong. Studies of autopsies have shown that doctors seriously misdiagnose fatal illnesses about 20 percent of the time. So millions of patients are being treated for the wrong disease.
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This is the richest country in the world — one where one-seventh of the economy is devoted to health care — and yet misdiagnosis is killing thousands of Americans every year.
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There is no bonus for curing someone and no penalty for failing, except when the mistakes rise to the level of malpractice. So even though doctors can have the best intentions, they have little economic incentive to spend time double-checking their instincts, and hospitals have little incentive to give them the tools to do so.
This just reaffirms some of facts Dr. Colins pointed out in his book. I just don’t understand what the problem is. We obviously have enough money going into Healthcare. Is it the shortage of qualified doctors? Is it the profit-driven Healthcare industry? *sigh*
Bloc Party, their songs carry very simple melody (much like Coldplay but with electric guitar)… energetic, fresh and comforting. This song was featured in the eMusic commercial… I shall add this one to Greatest Opening playlist^^
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This is pretty cool. Philosophy 7: Existentialism in Literature and Film sounds like a great alternative for sleeping pill ^^
(via Digg)
PS: MIT has made their course materials availabe for public since 2003.
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