For anyone who is just morbidly curious, I found this interesting list of Self Surgery.   That's right....  all people how have operated on themselves.  Now that takes guts....

 

Top 10 Incredible Self Surgeries

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

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

Ran across this amusing cartoon.  It is a scary truth that seems more and more prevalent.  I for one am trying to educate my patients about this pitfall.  Medicines are wonderful but maybe we use them as a crutch to often?  or... Maybe all the commercials we see on TV are really true.... you decide.

Im a big believer in giving to education and children (the only way that has ever improved poverty.)  This website is great.

Donors Choose

Teachers apply for a school project, you get to choose a project and help fund it.  Then the teacher will perform the project & you get feedback about how the project went.  And of course... it's tax deductible. 

If your looking for a way to give back to this world.  This may be a nice and rewarding way to do it.

I have always thought moths were incredible creatures in our little world.  This is a beautiful set of pictures showing some really unique and wonderful moths.

Amazing Moth Pictures

This  fascinates me.  It's like having teeth in the back of your throat and being able to pull food into your mouth.  Literally, just like from movie "Aliens."  Yet another example of the incredible and diverse world we live in. 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14194579&ft=1&f=3