Pub Med Clinical - How To.
I have found that many struggle with the basics of doing specific medical research. I made this video in 6 minutes, unedited. It’s not the best, but if you’re a clinician, student, or human interested in medical research - this might give you a head start. Then again, it might not.
I haven’t even finished watching this yet. But within the first 10 seconds it resonated with my heart. And my future. And the past. And then at 2:30 I realized I resonate more with Marcia. But I love ‘em both. Keep on fighting.
How to make your internet at faster
I just talked to the Comcast guy for my 6 month price renegotiation. He explained the price like this - it will cost $34.95 for the high speed internet and another $10 for the increase in speed. To which I say - “What? I pay an extra $10 to make the high speed internet faster?” Yep. We chatted for a bit and then I finally asked him for some numbers explaining that these relativities were not working for my brain. He then tells me that the extra ten brings the 12-15 MBps internet up to 20-25 MBps. The conversation follows along like this…
Me: I’ve never seen anything of the sort. Are you sure you’re talking about mega BYTES Mark?
Mark: Yes.
Me: Really, are you sure we’re not talking about mega BITS?
Mark: Yes - it’s mega BYTES.
Me: Well if that’s the case, I’ve never seen anything remotely close. I mean not even a quarter of that. What’s going on here?
Mark: Do you use a wireless network? What kind of router do you have?
Blah blah blah, I humored him for a bit. And then this happened:
Mark: You know it’s pretty dry here in Colorado - the static can build up and slow down the internet, what you should do is unplug both the router and modem for awhile and then allow that static charge to go away.
Me (joking tone): Do you think it would help if I poured some water on my router?
Mark: Well I don’t know. What I can tell you is that I’ve got two cats and my friend recommended that I put a humidifier in the room with my router and sure enough the internet speed increased a ton!
Gave me a good chuckle. I love creative physics.
And a little lesson on internet speeds. Comcast does indeed market as Mbps knowing full well that very few people know what that means. Every digital product that consumers use are measured in BYTES not BITS. Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes, etc. For not better reason that to trick the consumer, data speeds are measured in Megabits. So here are a few lines to help you get familiar with understanding how internet speeds are actually marketed:
- Mbps = Mega BITS per second = Comcast marketing
- MBps = Mega BYTES per second = How they should advertise.
- 1 Mega BYTE (MBps) = 8 Mega BITS (Mbps)
- Song from iTunes = 7.2 Mega BYTES = 57.6 Mega BITS
- Time to download at 20 MBps = 0.36 seconds
- Time to download at 20 Mbps = 2.88 seconds
I guess that just made your internet slower.
The hypothalamic pituitary adrenal/gonad axis. Been working on this doozy for a bit. Couldn’t seem to find a real simple pretty design, so I made my own. Feel free to take it. I’ll probably update as I learn more, but this is a very very solid start.
Wow, riveting night on the policy front. My colleague Mr. Chan posted this video on FB in response to the Mitch Daniels quote - “The late Steve Jobs - what a fitting name he had - create more of them than all those stimulus dollars the President borrowed and blew”.
Was he talking about Chinese jobs? Mr. Jobs is one of my heroes, but not because he saved America through job creation. Just leave it to a politician to twist the facts to fit their reality. Click on that link above, pretty interesting report by the NYTimes earlier this week.
That there is a schematic for my bicycle light setup. Three 4w LED’s are wired in parallel to the 12-24v Tung Lin Dynamo. Bright as day while out on the road at night. I’ve got two up front and one in the back.
So go grab yourself some supplies and get to work. This has to be the cheapest, best lighting solution for biking out there. Yes cheapest and BEST. Cost me just around $80 for a total of 1320 Lumens.
A video of my bicycle light.
Instructions for a single lamp version of the tung lin dynamo powered bicycle light are below. Of course, I upped the game a bit since that post - now the same dynamo is running three lights in parallel. The lighting system is simply fantastic for the a ride in the dark. I can clearly see things in the road even when riding at 20 mph. Thank you physics and electricity.
Tung Lin Dynamo Update!
Over the holiday break I broke down some physics with my friend Stephen. Bottom line - on the Tung Lin, scrap the rear tail light port. You get more power/current/voltage from the headlight port. Enough to run 3 of the 4w 12v LED’s I mentioned in the previous article. I wired there up in PARALLEL and the street is brighter than any other bike light I’ve seen. Two in front, one in back for ~$80. I haven’t finalized the lights yet, but as soon as I do, I’ll update the instructions with another post.
Happy riding!
It’s the holidays and snow is on the ground. Procrastinating is running high and the food is tasting good. I finally finished v1 of the lighting system on my bike. I’ll update with final specs soon. I just downloaded Motion 5 and will attempt to pump out a few videos over the next few months. One for the Survivor Storytelling Project, others for my bike and holiday times.
I’m hoping to get some good photos in the next few days as new frontiers are on the horizon. Those will be posted on the photograph page soon too. I hope everyone enjoys the holidays, relaxes, and learns a thing or two.
America - Something to think about.
23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? (by DocMikeEvans via @CBM)
My friend David and I were building bike lights tonight and talking about the possibilities for big changes in medicine. We tend to dream and it’s nice to ham it up with someone who dreams big too. David sent me this ted talk the other day that talked about the plain crappy way information is presented/delivered in medicine and how the one the one thing we really need to be able to do in medicine is figure out how to help people change one life habit or another. Not more pills, not more this, not more that. It wasn’t a perfect talk but it resonated, and then David brought up the topic tonight but we kind of left the idea hanging. So he rides home with his new light and I popped on the interwebs prior to one last bout with thyroid chemistry and found this video. I liked the presentation, the data, and the mentality and it hit home a bit.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
Source: youtube.com
