2 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Banjo used in brain surgery - "A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure. Eddie Adcock is one of the pillars of Bluegrass Music and realised his tremor could threaten his ability to perform prof
Andy Baio : Bluegrass musician plays banjo during his brain surgery - his ability to play was used as a measure of the surgery's success [via]
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4 month ago
nelson : Nitrous Oxide in Paris - Sculpture commemerating the discovery of anesthesia
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40 month ago
jkottke : Making sense of the appendix - Making sense of the appendix, the one in your body, not the one in books. "Perhaps the appendix lifted the odds that our ancestors could resist childhood diseases and live to childbearing years."
deusx : The Riddle of the Appendix - New York Times - "I was grateful that we have not only inherited a danger-prone appendix, but a brain that can invent surgery."
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