Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Celebrating the Body Beautiful. The human body is intriguing in all its forms. A photo exhibit features subjects both nude and clothed, giving us a complex picture of who we are as a species and as sexual beings. Commentary by Regina Lynn. [Wired News] 7:32:05 PM    comment [] Puijilittatuq, or just too many seals for one blogger to blog. The Inukitut have a word for it: "puijilittatuq." Translation: "He does not know which way to turn because of the many seals he has seen come to the ice surface." That's a good description (from this month's issue of Ansible, the scifi newsletter from David Langford) of the blog-blockage typically caused by a fresh copy of Ansible. Thank goodness, at least, that I'm not in Paris! Bloggers there will face the nightly temptation of being able to play mobile-phone-Tetris, using the lights on the Bibliotheque Nationale. (Thanks, Engadget!) And check out Anil Dash's piece on "Information Bankruptcy." My favorite bit: I learned that half of all bankruptcies in the United States are caused by medical bills, courtesy of Rebecca's link. I wish I had learned this from John Kerry about six months ago. This is the core of the health care debate in this country, not edge-case stem cell research. Modern political organizations have fantastic research resources available to them, but they squander these resources on finding weaknesses in their opponents... ... And I linked to Jay McCarthy's beautiful "Letter to Beatrice" from my del.icio.us linkblog, but never got around to pointing to it from here. Tiny sample: In these paragraphs I will take Aristotle's classification, if for no other reason then to impress those who are so impressed, on friends: those of interest, of love, and of contemplation. This division is not always perfect, and thus many components could easily be rearranged, but how many books are in the Bible is much less important than their complete message--so I press onward... ... Now, you've got plenty to read, and I'm headed back to Thog's Masterclass... [Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar?] 7:29:45 PM    comment [] Solar Cell Implant May Restore Some Sight for the Blind. Ophthalmologists at Rush University Medical Center implanted Artificial Silicon Retina (ASR) microchips in the eyes of five patients to treat vision loss caused by retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The implant is a silicon microchip 2mm in diameter and one-thousandth of an inch thick, less than the thickness of a human hair. Four patients had surgery Tuesday, January 25. The fifth patient is scheduled for a later date. [Science Blog - Science Blog -- Research News in Science, Health, Medicine, Space, Physics and More] 7:28:00 PM    comment [] What Exactly Is Under the Sea?. Even with today's advanced mapping technologies, old and sometimes secret data can lead to deadly surprises on the ocean floor. By Rowan Hooper. [Wired News] 7:25:23 PM    comment []

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