I hope doctors, hospital administrators, and medical device manufacturers are paying attention to To Reduce Hospital Noise, Researchers Create Alarms That Whistle and Sing [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/science/alarm-fatigue-hospitals.html]. Yoko Sen, an electronic musician, observed after a hospital stay > “Unnecessary noise is the cruelest…
> “Every walk is a sort of crusade.” Thoreau, born on this day in 1817, on the spirit of sauntering and the perils, both bodily and spiritual, of a sedentary lifestyle https://t.co/preEwOMytz — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) July 12, 2019 [https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1149808654796972038?ref_src=twsrc%…
> A hospital introduced a robot to help nurses. They didn’t expect it to be so popular https://t.co/3NQUF1TPWe — Fast Company (@FastCompany) July 8, 2019 [https://twitter.com/FastCompany/status/1148212827582324736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > At the link— While Moxi’s job is to take as…
This New Yorker article makes me happier than ever that I look forward to and listen to NPR's reading of The Declaration every Fourth of July [https://www.npr.org/2019/07/04/733431874/a-july-4-npr-tradition-a-reading-of-the-declaration-of-independence] . Now to find a copy of Frederick Douglass's speech. [https://rbscp.…
> In January, 2013, the journalist @PaulSalopek [https://twitter.com/PaulSalopek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] set out on foot to retrace the pathways blazed by the first Homo sapiens, who left Africa to discover the world about 60,000 years ago.https://t.co/7o2i1z1Res — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) June…
Caught wind of Domino's delivery robots [https://www.foodandwine.com/news/dominos-driverless-delivery-vehicles-houston?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=photo&utm_campaign=foodandwine_foodandwine&utm_medium=social&utm_term=A1CFF1F6-911F-11E9-9AA4-49894744363C] , then I heard what McDonald's is up to. > McDonald's is…
> "You don't get older, you get better.” - Shirley Bassey, Wales, 1955. pic.twitter.com/3905pNMiax [https://t.co/3905pNMiax] — History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) June 21, 2019 [https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/1142145497215504385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> In the 1960s, bagel bakers were paid far more than even policemen or engineers, which meant that they had incredible leveraging power to renegotiate their contracts. When they went on strike, they plunged the city into a "bagel famine". https://t.co/dw9lxqVOnt — Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) June…