The anatomy lesson of Dr Tulp - De anatomische les van Dr Nicolaes Tulp
I wrote this ages ago but for some reason never published it. But here it is!This painting by Rembrandt is in the Mauritshuis in Den Haag. Last year on holiday I visited the gallery to see The Girl with the Pearl Earring (who in Dutch is just " The girl with the pearl " , although it doesn ' t rhyme in Dutch), butDe anatomische les van Dr Nicolaes Tulp is there too. This was Rembrandt ' s first commission on moving to Amsterdam, commissioned by the Surgeon ' s Guild.Tulp gave annual anatomy lectures, open to the public (on payment). The paper being held by one of the surgeons pr...
Source: Browsing - March 25, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: medical history Rembrandt Source Type: blogs
124 Saturday Quotes to Help You Make This a Happy and Great Weekend
It’s Saturday. The weekend has begun.
And to celebrate that and kick off these next two days the right way I’d like to share the best and most inspirational Saturday quotes.
To help you make this a happy weekend. A fun weekend with friends and loved ones.
And a weekend where you also have time and space to both get what you want to get done and get some needed rest and renewal.
Also, if you want even more joyful and uplifting inspiration then check out this post with quotes on Monday motivation and also this one filled to the brim with Tuesday quotes.
Relatable Saturday Quotes
“What can be better than to get out a b...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - March 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Rock rewritten
As you may have noticed I wrote about the news story concerning the so-called brain-eating amoeba. I also felt the tragic tale deserved a modern, post-punk, folk song as a lament and so I pulled one together in on an otherwise dull morning. Later that evening, I had second thoughts about the original lyrics and rewrote them entirely the following wet morning. The original song became Old Nick is Quick
Old Nick is Quick
I woke up today
As you might have easily guessed
There’s one thing I must say
You might be less than impressed
I read in the news
There was a man with the answers
For shaking off the blues
With a shot he ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 8, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
New way for a new wave song
TL:DR -Newspaper story inspired me to write a post-punk folk song telling the tale. I rewrote the lyrics the next day. Download/stream here.
As you may have noticed I wrote about the news story concerning the so-called brain-eating amoeba. I also felt the tragic tale deserved a modern, post-punk, folk song as a lament and so I pulled one together in on an otherwise dull morning. Later that evening, I had second thoughts about the original lyrics and rewrote them entirely the following wet morning. The original song became Old Nick is Quick
Old Nick is Quick
I woke up today
As you might have easily guessed
There’s one t...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 8, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Updates and an artificial album cover
As regular readers will know, I’ve been running the Sciencebase site since July 1999. Its precursor, Elemental Discoveries, had various homes on the web from December 1995 until that fateful summer. There are almost 4000 articles in the archives, so it’s quite a hefty site for a one-man show.
Anyway, having played around with various website options in the last couple of weeks, I’ve finally done a proper spring clean, got rid of some very out-of-date articles and updated others that were worth keeping. I’ve upgraded security and performance stuff so the site should load much faster than ever before...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Prompting MidJourney with emoji
TL:DR – You can paste emoji into a MidJourney prompt and it will generate some interesting art. Some of it seems wholly unrelated to the emoji.
Everyone surely knows by now that you can create some intriguing images by sending an appropriate prompt to a bot, you can even send an image to some of them, such as MidJourney, and have it spit back something that it generates based on that input. Recently, I saw an interesting idea from Linus Ekenstam who was prompting MidJourney with emoji. My next favourite waste of time was obvious…
Prompt: Male singer emoji, the one that looks like Aladdin Sane Bowie
MidJourney ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs
Avian influenza, bird flu, H5N1
A bird flu pandemic has killed thousands of wild birds over the last couple of years. Scientists have now seen infection in mammals, and very recently a person died from avian influenza and several close contacts show signs of infection. The concern is that we might be headed for another H5N1 pandemic. Previous strains of H5N1 that infected people had a mortality rate of 60 percent.
Avian influenza, bird flu, H5N1
There are fifteen known variants of avian influenza. The most virulent, and usually fatal in birds, are the H5 and H7 strains. There are then nine variants of the H5 strain and the type of most concern because ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 27, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Bird Flu Health and Medicine Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Artificial banality
If you haven ' t checked out ChatGPT, you might want to. (You ' ll need to give them your phone number but it ' s only for 2-factor authentication.) I think it ' s important to understand what this is and what it can do. I asked it to " Write a story about a peasant girl who discovers she has magical powers and must fight an evil sorcerer. " This is what I got -- commentary follows.Once upon a time, in a small village nestled in the heart of a vast kingdom, lived a young peasant girl named Isadora. She lived with her parents and siblings in a small cottage and worked hard every day to help provide for her famil...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 10, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Picturing new art with the AI paintbox
don’t think artificial intelligence (AI) has become an obsession for me yet, but it is a serious distraction. For instance, I have been using ChatGPT, the language model AI bot, to help me come up with different types of headlines for articles. I haven’t used any that it has suggested, but I have prompted it with the text of my articles and ask it to act as a sub-editor on a particular type of publication.
The headlines it devises are always interested, I usually ask it to tweak in a particular way, and usually then re-word it to my own taste. So, for this article, it suggested: “Exploring the Possibiliti...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs
poem
A List of Famous Hats -after James TateI knew a guy who believed hats evolved to fulfill a function,Purely utilitarian, nothing to do with fashion He further claimed that some hatsWere originally designed to fit the misshapenCranium of some poor soulWho needed to get out of the houseWithout a million wiseguys gawking At his unfortunate deformityThe first pope hat, in fact, was designed for a literal inbred coneheadNapoleon ' s tricorne monstrosity was originally crafted by a nun For a poor orphan girl with skull dominant acromegaly Fascinator hats were godsendsFor self conscious m...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - January 26, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
84 Selfish Parents Quotes to Help You Not Feel Alone and Live a Healthier Life
Selfishness.
Sometimes it can be freeing as we cast off the burden of always people pleasing and being helpful and as we shift our internal balance to also focus on what want and need to be happier and healthier.
But most often selfishness hurts.
We can hurt others in our lives when we lean into it. Or other people in our lives like friends, co-workers or family can hurt us with how they think and act.
In today’s post I’d like to share 84 powerful selfish parents quotes.
To help you see that you're not alone. But also to help you find a healthier and happier path forward starting today and for the rest of your life.
A...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - January 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
poem
Op Note XXXVHad I known this surgery would be so difficult I would have switched call. I would have transferred it out. Punted. I would have taken my daughter skiing and not gotten frustrated with her when she fell. I would have asked her about school and the pressures of eighth grade life and how I understood and was there anything I could do to help. I wouldn ’t have made inane comments about the unseasonably warm weather, about the lovely view from the lift, the reifying properties of cold air. I would try not to let silence reign, lost in my thoughts worrying about the rocky course of the bowel case in th...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - January 21, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Take a break from cardiology : How to debate a complex topic in a forum ?
Pardon ,this video is nothing to do with cardiology. It is from the archives of the United nations library .This can teach some important lessons in art of communication , sharing to all folks, especially medical students. It was recorded in 1959 in Newyork, UN head quarters.Four 17 year old school girls & boys were invited for a debate on a complex topic. Does God exist ? How do you pray ? and what is the purpose of different religions ?
I keep wondering , how these youngsters accumulated so much wisdom and express it in such a polite manner too. Mind you, this was recorded , when learning happened with ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 16, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized evidence based cardiology medical education religion and god medical profession Source Type: blogs
A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and " benign early repolarization "
Sent by anonymous, written by Pendell MeyersA male in his teens presented with complaints of chest discomfort and dyspnea beginning while exercising but without obvious injury. He immediately stopped exercising and symptoms started to improve. Later that evening he felt recurrent central chest discomfort, shortness of breath, and vomited. Symptoms have been constant since this second episode, and are still present on arrival, which seems to have been less than 1 to 2 hours from onset of symptoms. No similar symptoms in the past. No prior exertional complaints of chest pain, dizziness, lightheadedness, or undue shortness of...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 9, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Iranian women ’ s rights movement faces brutal retaliation from government
A 23-year-old girl reached out to me, a medical professional, seeking advice. “I’m not afraid of them killing me,” she said, referring to the torture and rape that men and women endure in Iranian prisons. “What I’m afraid of is what they’ll do to me in captivity. What pill can I take to end it
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Iranian women’s rights movement faces brutal retaliation from government originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Montreh Tavakkoli, MD Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
