Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 28 2009 | bioethics, medicine, science, law, journalism
Amazing, well researched account of medical ethics during a real world disaster/mass casualty event. Must read.
"At about 2 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 31 — nearly 48 hours after Katrina made landfall near New Orleans — Memorial’s backup generators sputtered and stopped. Ewing Cook later described the sudden silence as the ‘‘sickest sound’’ of his life. "
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 26 2008 | news, science, DIY, genome, fun, hobbies
awesome.
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 26 2008 | news, science, physics, technology, big bang 2.0
Big Bang 2.0
It's coming!
October seems likelyQuoted: Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to ...
Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 17 2008 | news, research, science, big bang 2.0
Quoted: Peter Higgs remembers the day everything suddenly began to make sense.
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 17 2008 | news, genome, science
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 17 2008 | video, medicine, science, health, orthotics, prosthetics, robotics
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 28 2008 | video, physics, science
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Coming October 2008 - Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2008 | architecture, design, science, video
click to playQuoted: http://www.ted.com - Architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "All children, all species, for all time".
A tireless proponent of absolute sustainability (with a deadpan sense of humor), he explains his philosophy of "cradle to cradle" design, which bridge the needs of ecology and economics. He also shares some of his most inspiring work, including the world's largest green roof (at the Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan), and the entire sustainable cities he's designing in China. - Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2008 | architecture, science, video
click to playQuoted: William McDonough draws a parallel between the designers of Nazi gas chambers and current buildings.
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2008 | science, architecture
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