How to fix your computer

Lifehacker.com has used this flow chart a few times in articles detailing fixes for your computer, but anyone who has grown up with computers or spent any significant time with them may already be using this method to solve their computer problems.

T Boone Pickens, I kinda like you now

After seeing this video of Pickens talking about the Big 12 changes, I started to like the guy.

Three videos from last week

Just wanted to share a few videos that I came across last week. The first I noticed because Evan Rosell posted it on his twitter. It shows an 8 Month Old infant having his cochlear implant turned on for the first time. The video is really incredible - check it out

The next is a video I first saw at this years Neuroscience Conference in Chicago at a nanosymposium. The work comes from Dr. Schwartz's lab at Pittsburgh. One thing that is not mentioned in the article on IEEE about this video is that the monkey was not lesioned and essentially has control over three arms when hooked up to this machine. I look forward to seeing the published results.



And the last video is one I just found entertaining. It is the new music video from OK Go, the group with the popular treadmill video. It apparently was quite the undertaking considering it is a massive Rube Goldberg machine timed to the music.

What motivates us.

Talking with Big Rob at his birthday celebration reminded me that I used to keep this thing updated as a repository for my thoughts and information that I found interesting or funny. Considering it really doesn't take all that long to make a post and that I come across this stuff every week, here is something interesting to think about.

What motivates us

Harry Potter 6 Review

It didn't suck.

The Onion Agrees With Me

Here is what the satirist newspaper "The Onion", had today about Vaccinations

http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/vaccine_rejectors_put_kids_at_risk?utm_source=yahoowidget_rss_1

Autism and Vaccines

Anyone who has asked me about the link between Autism and Vaccines knows that one of my biggest pet peeves is when Celebrities, like Jenny McCarthy, take on an issue like Autism and Vaccines and completely ignore what every expert is saying on the subject. What really gets me fired up is how one person on Oprah can say "vaccines cause autism" without showing any real correlation, and it seems to hold more weight in peoples thoughts than the hundreds of thousands of trials done, showing absolutely no link. Illustrating this point is an interview with Jenny McCarthy in TIME: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1888718,00.html. This is a year after TIME devoted a whole issue to this subject: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1808438,00.html.

I believe vaccines to be one of the greatest accomplishments in modern medicine. Vaccines have decreased the incidence of diseases like, Polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Measles, Mumps, Pertussis, Rubella by greater than 90%. We also have vaccines to stop the harmful effects of toxins like, tetanus, and diphtheria. And thanks to the gardasil vaccine, we even have a vaccine that prevents cancer. As science pushes forward there will be even more vaccines against a greater number of diseases, and yes we need to make sure they are safe, but we should trust the experts who do thousands of trials over years of study to come to that conclusion, not just anyone who can do five minute interviews on daytime talk shows.