Inside the mind of an autistic girl

I have worked a lot with autistic kids, and this really, really surprised me. Made me rethink my approach to them.

http://youtu.be/vNZVV4Ciccg

Time lapse world weather - beautiful, mesmerizing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_avFzBdd34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2jEcBqKdbQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikX7SV-y2GE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Gd_7Vd6lw

Seiche

Definition: 

noun
an occasional and sudden oscillation of the water of a lake, bay, estuary etc., producing fluctuations in the water level, and caused by wind, earthquakes, changes in barometric pressure etc. 

Awkward train situations

Funny!

Car crash dashcam in Russia

See inside a car from normal to mayhem in the blink of an eye -
http://youtu.be/6C_yVh-OqYw?t=10m28s

Magnetic therapy for depression.

"Active TMS was significantly superior to sham TMS on the MADRS at week 4 (with a post-hoc correction for inequality in symptom severity between groups at baseline), as well as on the HAMD17 and HAMD24 scales at weeks 4 and 6. Response rates were significantly higher with active TMS on all three scales at weeks 4 and 6. Remission rates were approximately twofold higher with active TMS at week 6 and significant on the MADRS and HAMD24 scales (but not the HAMD17 scale). Active TMS was well tolerated with a low dropout rate for adverse events (4.5%) that were generally mild and limited to transient scalp discomfort or pain."

http://depression.wustl.edu/O'Reardon%20Pivital%20trial.pdf

Also

Rapid-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation treats depression.

http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/8684201

Magnetic stimulation treats depression.

http://m.bjp.rcpsych.org/content/182/6/480.short 

Map of travel advisories - where not to travel?

http://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories

Trace Your Route | Popular Science

Web Internet routing shows map of the path your web search took to reach you.
http://www.popsci.com/content/trace-your-route

Here's the trace tool:
http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/

anesthesia and changed mental function

Does postoperative cognitive deficit predict the onset of Alzheimer's? Yes. 

"[It is...] More likely in the elderly with pre-existing declining mental functions, termed MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment) (Silverstein 2007). MCI is a transitional zone between normal mental function and evident Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. It is insidious, and seldom recognized, except in retrospect after affected persons are evidently demented."

http://www.anesthesiaweb.org/dementia.php

Fracking vs the alternatives

This Op-Ed New York Times piece mitigates against the outcry over fracking and makes the point that fracking occurs at 5 times the depth of any surface water, and the natural gas it yields causes much less carbon loading of the atmosphere than coal (the alternative fuel source grown in America). The author admits that the chemicals used are not regulated or monitored. I worry that the hydrocarbons (diesel, benzene) used to extract the sticky mess are by necessity more volatile than either coal or crude oil and more likely to contaminate overlying water sources no matter how much more superficial they are.

http://nyti.ms/Zzp8u8

Hagfish Slime Makes Super-Clothes : Discovery News

A nasty smelly fish that emits a protective protein defense that happens to be a useful protein filament which may one day be made by bacteria through recombinant engineering.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/hagfish-slime-super-clothes-121203.htm

Solar water heating

Flat plate collectors - run fluid through a black tube, basically.
Since the system can't be turned off, it has to be drained. Just one hour of excessive temperature chemically converts the glycol into glycolic acid, which erodes the pump and copper pipes, necessitating glycol replacement at considerable expense.

Even when properly drained, a thin film of glycol remains and degrades into glycolic acid, damaging the components and lowering the heat-transfer capacity.

An evacuated tube system captures the heat in a thermos-like glass cavity, increasing efficiency and allowing hot water generation in sub-zero conditions.
The system can't be drained in over-temperature conditions, so it has to have a radiator to waste excess heat not being used on very hot days. This means complexity - an extra pump and tubing and controls.

http://www.suntracsolar.com/downloads/SunTrac_Care_and_Maintenance.pdf

Rostropovich bio

Fwd: NYTimes.com: Mediterranean Diet Can Cut Heart Disease, Study Finds

Nuts, olive oil, and avoid red meat, baked goods, soda... Mediterranean Diet Can Cut Heart Disease, Study Finds By GINA KOLATA Until now, evidence that the Mediterranean diet reduced the risk of heart disease was weak, and some experts had been skeptical that the effect of diet could be detected

Rapid winter chains

Thule rapid winter tire chain