Corn starch makes weird and wonderful shapes when put in a speaker and the speaker is turned on. Check this out Related posts: Internet Cool Tools for Physicians ..read more »

How does nature do it? Just one example from the video. How does nature repel bacteria? The solution: Shark Skin. A company is now testing structures based on shark skin for surfaces in hospitals to prevent bacteria from "landing". Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results. Have a look at a website about biomimicry: asknature.org Related posts: Dual Action not Better Than Mono Action Antidepressants How great .....read more »

The ninth edition of Scientia Pro Publica is up at Pleiotropy. Scientia Pro Publica is a blog carnival devoted to celebrating the best science, nature, and medical writing in the blogosphere. Submissions may discuss any science-related topic, as long as they are written for a general audience (the Pro Publica part of the title), were published within the past two months, and do not promote the many forms of pseudoscience. The posts of this edition fall neatly into three categories: biology, brains, and a hodgepodge of everything else. I especially liked: The harmonious ape on Why Evolution Is True. A discussion of a .....read more »

A big city usually is not a quiet empty place to enjoy nature. They can be overcrowded, busy, smelling places with people rushing from one spot to another. Nevertheless cities can have a soul. Rotterdam, the city I live in is one of the largest harbors of the world, it's always busy, recreating itself. Following the German air raids of May 1940, the city was completely rebuilt in a daring and innovative new style. The skyline of Rotterdam with the Erasmus Bridge is justifiably world famous. But it doesn't stop there, it's still going on. Why does this .....read more »

A new edition of MedLib’s Round, a blog carnival of the “best blog posts in the field of medical librarianship” on Pharmamotion. I especially liked: 10 + 1 PubMed Tips for Residents (and their Instructors) on Laika's MedLibLog founder of this grand round and looking for hosts in the near future for this grand round. Very useful information. See and read the power of twitter on the question: How did a TIME magazine article end up indexed by PubMed as a scientific paper? There is also a nice video on how to use Evernote for importing PubMed search results but when trying it .....read more »

An extensive grand round with a lot of posts in a funny theme on Emergiblog: Our theme this week comes to us courtesy of that loveable, wacky duo, Wallace and Gromit! Many, many submissions make for a wonderful ‘Rounds and this week is no exception. I especially liked: Parents Are Concerned about Psychiatric Medications Concern about the use of psychiatric medication for children: an underlying factor in negative public response is lack of acceptance that serious mental illness exists among children and adolescents On ACP Internist a post about bleu M&M's and spinal cord injury. Scientists at the University of Rochester suspect the blue .....read more »

Question: Why have so many more people in the USA, were marijuana is illegal tried it? 40% of people in the USA compared to 20,2 % in The Netherlands? Bill O'Reilly: The way they do the statistics in The Netherlands is different, plus it is a much smaller country, it's a much smaller base to do the stats on. I don't care what happens in The Netherlands..... As you can see in a previous post: The Truth about Pot, Anarchy, and Sex in Amsterdam, a response to a Fox News Broadcast by someone living in Amsterdam and a little smarter, all .....read more »

Psychotherapy training in residency has lost much of it's importance due to the increasing interest for biological psychiatry and biological treatments. Especially those using long term psychotherapy haven't supplied the answers for the growing demand for evidence based treatment. In the US the residency review committee has reduced the number of psychotherapy schools back to three: supportive-, cognitive-behavioral- and psychodynamic psychotherapy. For this the development of an integrated model for teaching psychotherapy competencies across the three forms of psychotherapy was recently published. It's: The Y Model: An Integrated, Evidence-Based Approach to Teaching Psychotherapy Competencies. This article offers the Y Model as .....read more »

Daniel Kraft demos his Marrow Miner -- a new device that quickly harvests life-saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that the adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be used to treat many terminal conditions, from Parkinson's to heart disease. Terrific improvement especially since it delivers more than 10 times stem cell activity compared to the older method of harvesting bone marrow. Thanks Clinical Cases and ImagesRelated posts: Association of Low Bone Mineral Density With Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Use by Older Men Your smartphone use predicts your social life, travel, risk of disease – even political views Saving .....read more »