From oil-drenched birds to Haiti, war and the Chilean miners, TIME.com photo editor Mark Rykoff explains the choices for the top 10 photographs of 2010 Impressive explanation of the choice between million of photo's for the 10 best of 2010. Related posts: China Photographs All Internet Cafe Customers Photographs Of Secret Sites Photos that changed the world ..read more »

Simple optical illusions can make it seem like the progress bars on your file downloads are moving faster than they actually are (see video above). Ripple effects and pulses of light are among the tricks computer programmers can use to keep you waiting those extra seconds. Related posts: Medical Progress and Empathy Light and Depression: Round Up ..read more »

Raw Oysters, especially 'wild', are excellent sources of several minerals, including iron, zinc and selenium, which are often low in the modern diet. They are also an excellent source of Vitamin B12. Oysters are considered the healthiest when eaten raw on the half shell. A search on PubMed also reveals that eating these creatures can be of some risk for infections mostly gastroenteritis. May be drinking wine with them prevents some infections. With current practices the outbreak of severe forms of gastroenteritis such as caused by salmonella are history. These practices are coliform monitoring (monitoring for the presence of pathogen coliform bacteria), .....read more »

About two third of medical students I am teaching is female. Nevertheless, only few surgeons are women. Especially in general surgery, female physicians are clearly underrepresented. This is in The Netherlands but also in Switzerland and probably in your country too. Why is it, doesn't surgery appeal to women, is it the male-dominated culture of surgeons and, as a result, suboptimal mentorship and a lack of role models? And how is the current situation for female surgeons with regard to their personal and professional lives? An investigation in Switzerland by anonymous questionnaire among 318 female surgeons and surgical residents revealed: .....read more »

Young people are high users of the Internet but we know very little about how they use the Internet, how they “are distributing their engagement across the various resources of the Internet”. This knowledge might be useful for learning and education. Researchers collected data from a nationally representative face to face survey of young people (n=1069) in Britain aged 8, 12, 14 and 17–19. These four age groups were selected to capture young people’s experiences of new technologies at different developmental and social stages. The four profiles The peripherals. A large group (31%) of young people that use the Internet the least frequent. .....read more »

Email overload is the feeling of being overwhelmed by a large volume of incoming messages. Email overload makes the management of the Inbox necessary. Wouldn't it be great if the inbox itself could filter the email by prioritization, information structuring and work-flow management? Now the user has to assess and prioritize the message based on the immediately visible message characteristics like the sender and the subject line. This decision has to be done again when the content of the message has been read. He or she has to reevaluate the initial decision regarding the action on the email. Some email .....read more »

They tested the protection of epicatechin on heart infarct size in mice. Epicatechin is a flavinoid and a major component of dark chocolate. It has antioxydant effects associated with a lower risk of stroke and heart failure. Epicatechin can bind to opiod receptors that can induce heart protection, moreover it can induce cardiac protection from ischemia-reperfusion injury with a heart attack. What they did was treat mice with epicatechin and naloxone alone and a combination of both. Naloxone is an opiod antagonist. Infarct size was significantly reduced in the epicatechin group, this effect was attenuated when administered together with naloxone. These .....read more »

What is strategical thinking? A key leadership requirement. Strategic thinking is an individual thinking activity that benefits organizations. Its purpose is to discover competitive strategies to position the organization significantly differently from the present. Experiences contributing to the development of strategic thinking in order of importance according to a survey in individuals who attended ten educational events sponsored by the American College of healthcare Executives (ACHE) in various U.S. cities. Participating in organizational strategic planning was the most important experience contributing to the development of strategic thinking. Starting a major organizational project. This experience involves a complex project that lasts one year .....read more »

Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the "end of men"? Probably not -- but they point toward an important societal shift worth deep discussion. Read the comments.......indeed all by men Same tune but different perspective: Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don't "act like a man." Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and .....read more »

From 759 medical students from different year levels about 87% use Facebook, 55% used it daily. 25% used Facebook for educational reasons and one quarter of this group had used the Facebook group feature specifically for learning. Another 50% said they were open to using Facebook for learning in Med School. Facebook may be used for teaching professionalism for medical students but other options exist as well. Facebook could provide support for student collaboration student generated content, communication and socialization of student work. What is clear from several studies is that educators are not part of educational use of Facebook. Educators .....read more »