Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Will black ever get out of style?

Popular culture has such a gr8 effect on our brains that we start attaching a emotional significance for each color...like for some black may remind them black magic, and may evoke corresponding emotions..i think the limbic system in the brain plays a gr8 role here...because whatever we see evokes an emotion...and these collective emotions are transformed into styles, trends, fashions and popular culture in the long run and carried on through generations...

Black is my fave color..reminds of my graduation day!Its called the color of knowledge right? but in my society black is not worn on festivals and other auspicious occasions...although i dont believe in this personally..

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

What do men want? This is what wolfram alpha thinks..Really funny:)

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INQUISITIVES- Identify the Pathology and Diagnose

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  • Hemolytic uremic syndrome


  • Precipitants-
    Diarrhea due to E. coli O157:H7, Shigella, Salmonella, viruses (children)
    Estrogen use
    Postpartum state
    High-dose corticosteroid therapy
    Autologous bone marrow or stem cell transplantation
    Cyclosporine or tacrolimus use after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation



Fun trivia- what is a 'Google doodle'?

On certain occasions, the logo on Google's webpage will change to a special version, known as a "Google Doodle". Clicking on the Doodle links to a string of Google search results about the topic. The first was a reference to the Burning Man Festival in 1998, and others have been produced for the birthdays of notable people like Albert Einstein, historical events like the interlocking Lego block's 50th anniversary and holidays like Valentine's Day.

Here is the latest doodle..in commemoration of Confucius, the great chinese philosopher.


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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Highlight and Share the Web! @diigo

With Diigo U can-

Research and Collaborate

  • Don't just bookmark! Highlight the web! Add sticky notes too!
  • Access and search your findings from any PC or iPhone!
  • Create groups to pool resources for specific projects.

Connect and Discover

  • You are what you annotate, creating a presence for you in the community.
  • Connect with friends effortlessly and non-intrusively through content.
  • Discover quality resources on any subject or get personalized recommendations.

Diigo is just awesome..The best reasearch and collaboration tool ever!

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Happy 11th Birthday Google!-Look at todays Google logo.

 

Guys, did u notice the Google logo today...Its the 11th birthday..Happy birthday Google!

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Traditional South Asian musical form- mesmerizing performance by Vishal Vaid

Vishal Vaid brings a modern perspective to the traditional music of India, creating melodies that evoke his culture’s past while shaping popular music’s future.

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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Your genes are not your fate!

Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually increase.

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Identify the radiological sign and the probable diagnosis

These are pictures taken after a Gastrografin Enema..Look at what the arrow is pointing at and identify the radiological sign and clinical condition.

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Diamonds 'may be the ultimate MRI probe'

Diamonds are a woman's best friend, they say. Now, a new study has claimed that the gems may soon turn out to be a patient's best
friend as well.

An international team, led by scientists from Harvard University, has carried out the study and found that diamond, formed of pure carbon, occasionally has minute imperfections within its crystalline lattice.

A common impurity is a "nitrogen vacancy", in which two carbon atoms are replaced by a single atom of nitrogen, leaving the other carbon atom space vacant. Nitrogen vacancies are in part responsible for diamond's famed luster, for they are actually fluorescent.

According to the scientists, the slight variations in this fluorescence can be used to determine the magnetic spin of a single electron in the nitrogen. Spin's quantum property that has a value of either "up" or "down", and therefore could represent one or zero in binary computation.

The team's recent achievement was to transfer this quantum information repeatedly between the nitrogen electron and the nuclei of adjacent carbon atoms, forming a small circuit capable of logic operations.

Reading a quantum bit's spin information--a fundamental task for a quantum computer--has been a daunting challenge, but the team demonstrated that by transferring the information back and forth between the electron and the nuclei, the information could be amplified, making it much easier to read.

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Do or do not, there is no try! - Master Yoda

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Friday, September 25, 2009

VS Ramachandran on your mind

Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

What hallucination reveals about our minds

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

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Laws that choke creativity- TED talks(This one is thought provoking!Must watch)

This is really awesome! Something that should be looked into seriously by Authorities. The Freedom of Speech, that the young generation wants, is fueled by digital technologies. And sooner or later, we have to realize, the more we supress this with meaningless laws, the more we see these kind of things. A fair law system has to come, that will let unleash full potential of this generation.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

The Power of Temptation « Bit Rebels

To test the power of temptation on children, Walter Mischel at Stanford University conducted a ‘marshmallow experiment’ with a group of children in the 1960s. According to YouTube, “A group of four-year olds were given a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. Some children could wait and others could not. The researchers then followed the progress of each child into adolescence, and demonstrated that those with the ability to wait were better adjusted and more dependable (determined via surveys of their parents and teachers), and scored an average of 210 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.”

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Identify the abnormality in the chest X-ray.Give the most probable diagnosis.


The arrows are pointing at the inferior rib notching.Dx- Coarctation of aorta..DDx-Neurofibromatosis

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

What is the probable diagnosis?


screenshot26, originally uploaded by docravi.

These are X-rays from a young patient.
S- Shoulder X-ray
H- Hip X-ray
History- The patient is a young male, who came to ED with history of breathlessness..He has been experiencing similar episodes since childhood

Saturday, September 5, 2009