1. Eric Ficsher’s NYC Twitter map using geotags and frequency of tweets in 10000 points and 30000 vectors. 

The conclusion? Broadway is “the spine” of the city.

    Eric Ficsher’s NYC Twitter map using geotags and frequency of tweets in 10000 points and 30000 vectors.

    The conclusion? Broadway is “the spine” of the city.

     

     NYC  twitter 

  2. Eye, Foetal Mouse (H&E stain)
Via micro-scopic

    Eye, Foetal Mouse (H&E stain)

    Via micro-scopic

     

     eye  histology 

  3. According to the Observer, scientists may have “a surprising and secret penchant for tattoos of a particularly cerebral nature”

     

     science  tattoos 

  4. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
    — From Self-Reliance (1841) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
     

     Ralph Waldo Emerson 

  5. New Year’s resolutions as mobile phone backgrounds, part of Chris Streger’s Resolve Project.

     

     art 

  6. Tech bubbles happen, but we usually gain from the innovation left behind. [The current] one—driven by social networking—could leave us empty-handed.
    — From “This Tech Bubble is Different” in Bloomberg Businessweek by Ashlee Vance. This is a statement that raises a lot of questions. With all eyes of the investment community on finding the next Twitter or Facebook, what will be the technology legacy of this era once the party is over?
     

     technology 

  7. Dr. Facebook?

    A recent Danish study asked people to post symptoms of a medical problem on their Facebook page and ask their friends to come up with possible diagnoses. They found that the correct diagnosis was suggested in five out of the six presented cases after a median time of ten minutes. They described the responses from “relevant differential diagnoses to very silly diagnostic suggestions.”

    I’m glad the researchers did not conclude that people can rely on their Facebook friends for making medical diagnoses. Instead, they suggested that people can use their Facebook friends to figure out if they should see a doctor for their symptoms. Although this is not a groundbreaking study, it points to the potential utility of crowdsourcing in medical research. The company Patients Like Me has been at this for some time, with about 125,000 patients detailing over 1000 conditions on their website.

     

     medicine  science  facebook  research  crowdsourcing  social media 

  8. Came across this sign near my clinic at NCI, in the belly of an aseptic corridor housing research specimens. Great to know I’m among people who think outside the box (or at least the limitations of classical mathematics)

    Came across this sign near my clinic at NCI, in the belly of an aseptic corridor housing research specimens. Great to know I’m among people who think outside the box (or at least the limitations of classical mathematics)

     

     NCI  science  math 

  9. Xray Christmas by Nick Veasey

    Xray Christmas by Nick Veasey

     

     art  medicine 

  10. curiositycounts:

Skeleton Typogram by Aaron Kuehn
     

     medicine  anatomy