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Friday, June 12, 2026

Physicians Are Not Providers

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-03852

The name "provider" deprofessionalizes medicine and reduces medicine to transactions.

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Simple changes to reduce pedestrian deaths

https://youtu.be/tMBR3ur1egk?si=9-nrflnbzMepUk8d

But it takes political will to risk losing votes because they slow traffic down.

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Narco subs go autonomous

https://youtu.be/rLm4qysvzxs?si=saBXVeOhZbrHSGn1

Satellite radar

https://youtu.be/UKLuei1CnZY?si=R1RFdWvtOGLBmhBA

Satellite radar see through clouds. Using interferometry from multiple passes, it can detect mm movement of ground (to predict landslides) and bridges (to detect failure earlier.) Military applications abound - in tracking enemy vehicles in any weather.

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Cool - ask Google Omni to imagine a drone fly-through

https://youtu.be/ZfqLUVLRTj8?si=m1hOznDsORUzsXJ6

Here's a video I prompted with Google Omni

Wow - position-sensing that can see through walls using your Wi-Fi router

https://youtu.be/0OdR8rRMz3I?si=zgOc_-IuUdFtrje9

Reflected radio waves can reveal a lot of information about things moving nearby. And, at a global scale, satellites can track ships that have "gone dark" for nefarious purposes.

And this tech is simple and cheap - in this video, a single chip setup could read her heart rate and breathing through walls.

https://youtu.be/oBDX_dPvq4A?si=O1TRbAuD-R2VUI-y

Friday, June 5, 2026

Re: Love, health, and friends.

"Love to share, health to spare, and friends to share"

-Quincy Jones on his 82^nd birthday

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Brave new world of human gene editing

Earlier attempts made unpredictable, catastrophic changes. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/science/embryos-gene-editing-crispr.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Spend more effectively

https://youtu.be/iGkVqeFUVNU?si=-8aofXF2xfmqcmm_

Does this buy me time, or steal it?
Is this a story, or just a thing?
Does this bring me closer to people?
Can I make it a treat vs. a standard?
Can I pay now and enjoy later?

Snail Mail

https://g.co/gemini/share/d6a28b98847b

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Sleeping with even a little light promotes diabetes

Just one night of exposure to 100 lux (equivalent to a streetlight shining through a curtain) during sleep impaired glucose tolerance the next morning. It also "increased heart rate and sympathetic [nervous system] activity during the entire sleep period."

This was studied in 20 healthy young adults 18-40 years old, and the moderate-light condition was four 60-watt incandescent overhead ceiling light bulbs (a total of 100 lux).