For anyone interested in San Francisco's efforts to promote intracity Universal Healthcare, this is the best article I have seen to date explaining the process.

Mitchell H. Katz, M.D.
Certainly a aggressive and "brave" program.  I actually applaud their efforts.  However, fear what it will mean for the cities economic health.  It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few years.  I'm also interested to know what will happen the first time the program is sued for malpractice.
Good luck San Francisco.

This is a really fun experiment showing how often we don't pay attention to our environment.

One of the comments on the page suggested that the men be replaced with women.  now that would be very interesting....


Change Blindness Video

A few years back, Zetia came on the market and was going "help reduce cholesterol" for patients who were not at goal despite high doses of Statin therapy.  In a brilliant marketing move, the drug companies combined Zetia with Zocor to produce Vytorin, and they put lots and lots of commercials on TV.
Im all for combination drugs.  It's always better to take fewer pills but this one is turning out to be a bust.

I was a resident when Zetia came on the market and I remember a teacher who made the comment to me,"sure it lowers cholesterol... but will that actually translate into decreased heart disease?"  That always stuck with me and I was determined to avoid the drug until I saw real proof that it improved heart disease.  Well, now i'm very happy I was suspicious.

It turns out that Zetia not only did not improve heart disease, it may have actually made atherosclerosis worse.  Another unfortunate blow for Merck.

Cholesterol Drug Has No Benefit in Trial


And then of course... will we ever learn?  Doomed to repeat history?  only time will tell for new drugs.

If you have never heard this before, or it has been awhile.  I encourage you to listen again. 

Advice isn't worth much.  But Mr Baz Luhrmann is right about it being nostalgic.
his song still makes me feel good about human spirit and the common goals we all share.

I have been following the RepRap technology and the idea of 3D printing for the past year or so and I think this is one of those wonderful feats of engineering that will soon change how we live. 
This group of engineers is working on a machine that will essentially replicate and will be able to build fully working 3D objects.
Star Trek style replicators. 

It is complicated to understand the implications of this but I think this lecture does a pretty good job.

I love Science.  Engineers are awesome and I'm always impressed by what they do.

Adrian Bowyer RepRap Lecture

The best part of it all.  They are giving the information away.  The Website even tells you how you can cheaply build your own replicator.  RepRap