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sbmwson The Inner Life of the Cell [animation]

That's the main reason I love that video, it shows the "messiness' and chaotic nature of the molecular processes involved: they're not intelligent, just stupid molecules colliding with each other until something sticks by accident.

Haha, they went overboard with all the popping. The one during the caspase sequence started to get a tad annoying.

sbmwson The Inner Life of the Cell [animation]

I noticed that too. It's a problem lots of students seem to have in understanding molecular reactions. This video seems to correct this to some extent:

It shows of how apoptosis works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KTDz-ZisZ0

sbmwson How to Breathe Water...and Not Die?

Thanks, I've updated the link.

sbmwson How to Breathe Water...and Not Die?

I feel the conversation should end hear, otherwise we'd soon start discussing Star Wars too...and then it would simply never end.

sbmwson How to Breathe Water...and Not Die?

It's awesome how science developments follow their creation in science fiction. Remember Star Trek and their communicators? We have cellphones that surpass those by leaps and bounds...talk about progress.

sbmwson The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery

Haha, my sentiments exactly. If you're dead your quality of life probably sucks.

sbmwson The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery

http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/8...

http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S0042-968620000006000...

It's not just lifespan. Medication and procedure cost, access, technology use, availability, number of hospital beds and health care workers etc.

The US does however have the access to the most advanced technologies (probably where the large funds are going), I'll give you that but numerous other reports show poor outcomes for other general health indicators (teen pregnancy rates, obesity rates, suicide rates etc..)

sbmwson The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery

The US is unfortunately one of the highest spenders on health care with the lowest outcome per dollar spent. It's all part of a severely broken system that needs reinventing, badly.

sbmwson Are Text Messages Killing, or Saving Us?

That seems to make sense simply for the sex part of the study, the author even admitted to such in the original study, saying the equivalent of text messaging is correlated with increased sex among youth. However, he never implied that it was the cause of it. I think that would've been the equivalent of career suicide.

What I'd like to know more about is the link between texting, social media and the other factors presented that didn't have clear cut explanations. People who are generally more social are bound to be more promiscuous etc. but why was there a link between texting and socioeconomic status, and why was the trend reversed for social networking compared to texting? Also why was there increased rates of obesity for this same group? Aren't larger people usually less social? It's not as simple a study as it seems.

sbmwson [dead]

Its an AP chest xray of what appears to be a google sign.