Funny talk about Lego for grown ups. They can buy tons of lego to lego robotics and lego programming. Lego blocks: playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many (ahem!) mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the beloved bricks' colorful, sometimes oddball grownup subculture, featuring CAD, open-source robotics and a little adult behavior. Related posts: Population Growth and Living Standards Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 52 up at Suture for a Living ..read more »

About 13 to 19% of new mothers experience depression in the first year after birth. Most of them are never identified nor diagnosed. New mothers often read about pregnancy, giving birth and raising their children in popular magazines. It's eminent that adequate information in these magazines about postpartum depression is of importance. A recent study evaluated the information on postpartum depression in these popular magazines in the period from 1998 to 2006. Does the information on postpartum depression in popular lay magazines correspond to scientific knowledge? Their conclusion was Although some of the articles reviewed for this study contained accurate and helpful .....read more »

This link with video was very appreciated on twitter when I had it on my tumbler blog. Thought I share it with my other readers as well. It's a reproductive health ed game for teenagers based on one of my old time favorite games: Worms. It has nice graphics and funny characters. Privates is a platform twin-stick shooter in which you lead a teeny-tiny gang of condom-hatted marines as they delve into peoples' vaginas, mouths and bottoms and blast away at all manner of oozy, shouty monsters. It's rude, funny, bitingly satirical and technically pretty accurate if you don't count the .....read more »

The images--taken using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument--were hand-picked to best showcase the disaster. The images begin with the oil rig explosion and run through May 24th. What almost looks Photoshopped, the oil slick appears grayish in the images and is changing due to weather, ocean currents and the use of toxic dispersing chemicals. And let's not forget how the estimates of the oil spill keep increasing (see the infographic below). Thanks Treehugger Related posts: Time-Lapse Video of the Milky Way over Hawaii Time Lapse Photography The oil spill’s unseen culprits, victims ..read more »

The 10 best science videos on the web this month with: Nuke an oil leak, supercooled water, images from the mars express etc... Video can capture science in action like nothing else – and New Scientist has scoured the web to bring you the 10 best clips posted this month. You can read about the videos on New Scientist TV No related posts. ..read more »

As you probably know is Dr Shock completely biased when writing about chocolate especially dark chocolate. He mostly writes about the research with positive results of chocolate on cardiovascular diseases. A recent review included 5 studies of adequate quality for inclusion in a recent meta analysis as well as 8 other peer reviewed studies for the effect of cocoa on blood pressure. In these 13 reports dark chocolate lowered blood pressure in 6 of the 7 open label studies but diastolic blood pressure only in 1 of 6 double blind studies and as you know double blind studies are the .....read more »

Dr Shock is a fan of gaming. In this short lecture the development of the hardware and the social and demographic aspects of the evolution of gaming, enjoy. Also the evolution of the gaming industry.Related posts: Healthy Online Gaming and Browser Gaming Gaming is good for you Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds ..read more »

Histrionic Personality Disorder - Symptom Media from Symptom Media on Vimeo. This video highlights the major symptoms of Histrionic Personality Disorder. Symptoms of Histrionic Personality Disorder may include: Acting or looking overly seductive, being easily influenced by other people, being overly concerned with one’s looks, being overly dramatic and emotional, being overly sensitive to criticism or disapproval, believing that relationships are more intimate than they actually are, blaming failure or disappointment on others, seeking constant reassurance or approval, having a low tolerance for frustration or delayed gratification, needing to be the center of attention (self centeredness), and quickly changing emotions .....read more »

Most physicians of my age only witnessed summative evaluations during their medical education. You studied your stuff and did an exam for which you could fail or not, go or no go. Our exams were tests aiming to summarize learning up to that point. Today most med students are evaluated with formative evaluation. Continuous evaluations carried out directly after a clinical situation or course unit. Formative evaluation is direct, teaching can be adjusted based on these evaluations and it promotes active involvement of the student. Formative evaluations have to been done often for reliable measuring of progress, it takes more valuable .....read more »

After putting up questions and voting for them this expert answers six most asked questions such as mitral valve prolapse or heart attack at young age and what can be done about it. Pacemakers and new developments, life style are other subjects, so enjoy. Excellent way of using web 2.0 for patient education? On moderator 97 people submitted 31 questions and cast 315 votes. Dr. Euan Ashley is a cardiologist and assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. He studies the use of genetics to predict and treat heart disease, and he is an expert in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the leading .....read more »