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...rotate off services - the worst disaster patient is somebody else's problem at the end of six weeks. There's no office to run, no payroll, insurance, rent etc. You only do the interesting part of the job: medicine. Long fellowships and residencies prolong this state. And produce a bunch of narrow specialists...
...Stickgold's evidence includes an experiment he led in 2000 when Harvard researchers were able to elicit the same dream in a bunch of people as they drifted off to sleep. They did this by exposing 27 subjects to an intensive three-day course in the computer game Tetris, which involves assembling geometric shapes. By the second night of training, 17 subjects had reported having the same dream image-falling Tetris pieces-indicating to Stickgold that the need to learn prods the brain to dream. More of these kinds of studies are needed, he says, "because as we learn...
There's something delightfully self-deprecating about that name, Twitter--we're all just a bunch of happy birdies, tweeting away in our trees!--but it also makes me nervous. It's like the cocaine of blogging or e-mail but refined into crack. Internet addiction is an old story, but we're on the tipping point of a new kind of problem that might more broadly be called an addiction to data, in all its many and splendiferous forms...
...looked at first like a random bunch of data points, a sprinkling of outliers beyond the curve of normal human experience. But when you stepped back, a pattern emerged. What these personal turns had in common was the apprehension that, well, we're all connected. Everything leans on something, is propped up by something--is both dependent and depended...
...goals from six different players with freshmen Kathryn Bilder leading the way with five tallies. Junior Melissa Mueller added four goals, while junior captain Lauren Snyder, freshman Roxanne Pinto and her classmate Kelley Peeler all had two. Junior Melissa MeCreery added one. “We capitalized with a bunch of turnovers up top,” Snyder said. “We shut them down so they didn’t have that much to go to.” Despite a dominant attack that made for a relatively quiet night for sophomore Nicola Perlman, the goalie was still...