Everybody knows that the airline industry is an abomination of American enterprise. It is laughable when the airline representatives say that safety is their concern because they treat people like cattle. Evidence of cattle herding by the industry can be seen anytime you look into the coach section of a jumbo jet. The philosophy is [...]
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The Story of the Datum
There is no better feeling in science than to see weeks of planning a new experiment come together in one day’s work to produce data. To be more correct, one datum. We’ve been working for weeks building a prototype, and developing the experimental conditions in which we could test the prototype. The test conditions were [...]
Catch-22 in Academia
In an effort to facilitate development of technologies the Bayh-Dole act also mandates that preference for licensing and developing opportunities of federally funded discoveries be given to small US owned companies. This stimulation has been a boon to the technology sector.
Peaks and Valleys in Academia
Peaks and Valleys. The whole lifestyle of college professors and most academics is a series of peaks and valleys. We are exuberant with successes like funded grants and exciting research data. Conversely we live with constant rejection from failed experiments, rejected papers and grant applications. So the peaks really need to outweigh the depths reached [...]
EMS Medical Emergencies
There are few acute medical conditions that can quickly cause a young healthy adult to die. A non exhaustive list of these are: ruptured appendix, pulmonary embolism, deep venous thrombolism, ectopic pregnancy, heat stroke, stroke, heart attack (sudden cardiac arrest), and meningitis. With this blog being about neurologic emergencies I posit as significant that 3 [...]
China trip and scientific conference on a cruise ship.
I say that I am a geek amongst geeks with pride.
Importance of the next breakthrough idea
In science ideas are like a currency and often better than money. A scientist is only as valuable as their NEXT idea. Yes, I said next idea. Once the idea is made public it is no longer novel and loses value. If the idea is not patented it can be taken by anyone and changed [...]
Book Signing II, Firehouse Expo
Ok, so I had my second book signing and as usual I learned a thing or two. Not a bad thing for a college professor talking about ambulance education. Never too old to learn and continue learning. The book signing was at the Firehouse Exposition in Baltimore Maryland. I was doing the signing at the [...]
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