Brain Drippings

Due to a series of complex circumstances, revival efforts continued for longer than usual for a patient whose heart was not responding to treatment, until doctors started preparations to remove organs.

It was at that point that the astonished surgeons noticed the man was beginning to breathe unaided again, his pupils were active, he was giving signs that he could feel pain - and finally, his heart started beating again.

Let me get this right.  He was breathing.  His pupils where active, and then his heart started beating?

Maybe I’ve seen too many movies, but I think I would have been quite tempted to reach for the nearest Mr Pointy.

Read about it yourself.

A fascinating movie showing global temperature averages over the last 130 years or so.

Jared posted about this “Scottish Delicacy“.  Ah yes, Glascow salad!  Near enough a reason all on its own to visit Scotland.

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

A new online visual dictionary called visuwords.com is quite interesting to look at, and especially fun to watch it draw out its related words.  More general and generic terms like “religion” are more interesting than specific words like “Methodist”. 

Not the TV Show, but a very interesting virtual network.

So, Reuters and Wired, at least, are reporting the story of a French Civil Servant who went into hospital and was found to have nearly no brain at all. (more…)