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Dolphins De-bone, De-ink & Devour
Scientists have observed bottlenose dolphins preparing cuttlefish for consumption. Considering they can’t wield a knife or cleaver, dolphins make impressive butchers. Researchers in Australia recently observed a bottlenose performing a precise series of manoeuvres to kill, gut and bone a cuttlefish. The six-step procedure gets rid of the invertebrate’s unappetising ink and hard-to-swallow cuttlebone. (Via [...]
Checking Lists – Actual Versus Potential Safety In Hospitals
As recently as 2001, a simple procedure was added to the protocol of a top notch hospital in the mid-atlantic. A year later, this simple procedure was seen to have been enormously effective. They calculated that, in this one hospital, the checklist had prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in [...]
Ebert On Elevation
A typically long and rewarding blog post by Roger Ebert; the subject, Elevation. “Powerful moments of elevation sometimes seem to push a mental ‘reset button,’ wiping out feelings of cynicism and replacing them with feelings of hope, love, and optimism, and a sense of moral inspiration.” Ebert covers the spectrum in this post: emotion, spirit, [...]
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