Reality-Based Engineering

Friday, April 17, 2009

Two Articles On New Wave Of Prosthetics

These are articles that I like to blog about - huge advances in prosthetics technology, some of them essentially coming from DARPA - you know, the people that brought us the B-1 bomber and the internets...

60 Minutes: Bionic Arm

WaPo: Power Knee

Labels: engineering, medicine

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Don't Bother With The Penicillin For That Head Cold...

According to the UK study, antibiotics do nothing for 14 of 15 cases of sinusitis, even when it has been going on for 7-10 days!!!

Labels: BBC, effluvia, medicine, science

I'm a liberal chemical engineer swimming in a sea of right-wingers. My cohorts and I (The Gumbinator, Lemon-Lyman and Johnny K-Street) will post about such things as "green" science and engineering, other engineering/IT and how they may relate to politics and economics, and economic issues such as tax policy and government transparency. Electoral stuff too. Of course, I'll bash the Bushies...