Doctors Urged to Admit Fatigue Before Performing Surgery Since I have a number of friends who are starting their houseman (what a term…!) years, I often ask them if they are capable of making sound decisions during their notorious 36-hour rotations. Most human beings start displaying deficiencies in performing cognitive tasks when they are sleep-deprived, [...]

Kinetic Typography. Stephen Fry. Language. Amazing. (thanks @geofflee!) And while we are on the topic of language, here is Radiolab’s segment, “Words”: Our perception of reality is greatly shaped by language, which is an essential component of thought (or some would say, the only component that matters). I found it intriguing that the experimenters in [...]