Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent. Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann; Map by Ziggymaj / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa,…
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream If all has gone according to plan, by the time you read this, New Horizons will have passed the last unseen planet in the solar system. At 7:49:58 am Eastern, the little spacecraft will pass Pluto at 7,750 miles, a distance just shy of Earth’s diameter, and the closest…
Women will have insurance coverage for birth control regardless of whether their employer claims a religious exemption, the federal government announced today. In a new rule published this morning by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor, the government specified which employers can claim the religious exemptions granted to companies…
Special message for automatic login ID change Blocking trauma with coloured blocks (Image: Oli Scarff/Getty) Manoeuvring the colourful tiles of Tetris can help block flashbacks of traumatic events, even after the memory has fixed itself in your mind. Playing the game could be an easy way to reduce the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)….
Stepping into the health debate around electronic cigarettes is a messy and frustrating exercise. Depending on whom you ask, these devices are either the best technological solution to the smoking pandemic or the biggest looming threat to public health. So to sort through the research and figure out whether e-cigarettes are actually safe, I read…
Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, Va., a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure. But as soon as he pressed play on his way home, he was shocked out of his…
Google Inc.’s life sciences group has created a health-tracking wristband that could be used in clinical trials and drug tests, giving researchers or physicians minute-by-minute data on how patients are faring. The experimental device, developed within the company’s Google X research division, can measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature, and also environmental information like…
I was ten when Jurassic Park roared across the screen in the summer of 1993. I couldn’t wait for it. Both National Geographic and TIME ran dinosaur cover-stories leading up to the release, celebrating the new image of “hot-blooded” saurians set to make box-office records. In the week leading up to the movie, I finally…
Who knew that Neil Armstrong‘s giant leap for mankind would one day lead to a world of space porn? Digital smut mogul Pornhub is trying to raise $3.4 million on Indiegogo to shoot an adult film in outer space. Established industry stars Johnny Sins and Eva Lovia are already signed on to the zero-gravity venture. If…
The Nobel laureate Tim Hunt has apologised for comments he made about female scientists. Hunt had told a conference he had a reputation for being a chauvinist, before saying: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall…