“Apparently a patient can be dead in one country, but still alive in another, under the same circumstances,” writes Dr. Erwin Kompanje of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in his essay “How dead is a brain dead patient?” BONUS (for philosophers): The Shrödinger’s Cat paradox is not exactly analogous to this, but also is not exactly not.
Month: February 2012
Rubber ducks in oceanography and finance
A song about the Ebbesmeyer analysis of rubber ducks and ocean currents: A demonstration in which a Salmon (Felix Salmon) uses rubber ducks in water to explain the Greek financial crisis:
Scott Hampton joins LFHCfS
Scott Hampton has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: I guess it’s time to take the plunge. Although the ongoing work in ophthalmology is my central career passion, my interest in long hair pre-dates the work on eye implants or drug delivery, and includes recent discoveries in long hair care such as sulfate-free shampoo […]
Old, old, old age in clones
“We estimated these large clones to be hundreds to thousands of years old”, says the study” “Implications of Extreme Life Span in Clonal Organisms: Millenary Clones in Meadows of the Threatened Seagrass Posidonia oceanica,” Sophie Arnaud-Haond [pictured here], Carlos Duarte, Elena Diaz-Almela, Nuria Marbà, Tomas Sintes, et al. (2012) PLoS ONE 7(2): e30454. (Thanks to investigator Mike […]