Ru Zi Ke Jiao

If you’ve ever seen Star Trek, then you probably marveled at some of the handheld medical equipment of Dr. McCoy. This isn’t science fiction, it’s real, here and now.

Angioplasty is a medical procedure – an invasive operation – that has traditionally been performed through the patient’s groin. This newer version allows for an even speedier recovery, by entering the body through the wrist. Simply amazing.

“We’re not only a scientifically illiterate nation, we’re a scientifically intolerant nation.”
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35412035#35406458

The issue under discussion is vaccinations and autism. Once upon a time, more than a decade ago, there was a ’scientific’ study done – and published by The Lancet - that showed a connection between the two. However, just last week, The Lancet took the highly unusual step of retracting the published study, saying that it no longer had confidence in the integrity of the study.

This topic reminds me of the philosophical question, “what’s the difference between a man who can’t read and a man who doesn’t read?”

And this entire, sad and sorry episode just goes to show, once again, that YOU are the ultimate person responsible for yours and your family’s well-being. Not the government, not some scientific publication, just you.

What you don’t know about something is more important than what you know about it. Here’s one more piece to the puzzle that is America.

This music video – We Are All Connected – was made by using software commonly referred to as auto-tune. It contains clips Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, The History Channel’s Universe series, Richard Feynman’s 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye’s Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking’s Universe, Cosmos, the Powers of 10, and more. It is a tribute to great western minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music.
Watch similar videos here:SymphonyOfScience.com

I sure didn’t. (And yet, I’ve managed to live a wonderfully interesting and meaningful life – imagine that!)

Oops, “knew what?” Who knew that there were four states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and plasma. I knew the first three and I remember how I learned them, by understanding excrement. As in diarrhea, shit and farts. (Sorry, I don’t know the English word for excrement that is in plasma form. If you know, please write a comment. And please forgive the crude language, but the truth is, you need to know these words too.)

I came to learn about plasma from this article describing how, in the future, dentists may use a directed stream of plasma instead of a drill to treat cavities. It continues:

“Plasma is the fourth state of matter, after solids, liquids and gases. It is formed when gases are energized to the point where electrons fly off some or all of their atoms.”