Federal data released for the first time shows the wildly different amounts hospitals are charging Medicare to perform the same procedure.
See how hospitals near you are charging with this New York Times interactive.
This chart from the Washington Post lets you compare the highest and lowest averages in your state.
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★ Who is your favourite villain?
Whoa.
[Additional context: It is unclear if Cho is referring to the character or Montalban. Montalban was a Mexican American actor of Spanish descent who was often cast to play characters of color by Hollywood; as Charlie Jane Anders points out, when he was working in Hollywood he felt he experienced racism and as a result founded an organization to support Latino actors. The character of Khan was South Asian and a character of color.]
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Miya Ando - Obon
Miya traveled to Puerto Rico where she floated 1000 resin and (non-toxic) phosphorescence-coated leaves in a small pond. During the day the phosphorescence collected and absorbed energy from sunlight, giving them a soft, blue glow at night.
Obon [Puerto Rico] 1000 hand painted (resin and phosphorescence) floating Bodhi (Ficus Religiosa) skeleton leaves.
— “the outcome of a person’s cancer is not decided by how hard they fight.” (via @producerkarin)
Shelly Ni’s League of Ladies: Women’s Superhero Underwear Kickstarter project features Frida Kahlo, Amelia Earhart, and Marie Curie as inaugural superheroes.
12 hours to go for Steve and Tyler’s ShotBot Kickstarter project! If you like to have fun when you drink, this Bot’s for you.
If you like robots, games, and drinking, this is pretty much your jam. Project ends today!
Have a question about creating a Kickstarter campaign or are in the middle of setting one up? No worries, as we’ll be hosting a Google Hangout Wednesday May 8, 2013 at 6pm EDT, where our project specialists will answer your questions. We’ll even have a special guest!
Submit your questions here. We’ll answer them on air. (We’ll also take a few live questions from the audience during the Hangout.)
We’ll update this blog post with a URL to the broadcast when it starts and post the link on Twitter. So bookmark this page, keep an eye on @Kickstarter, and we’ll see you Wednesday!
A few choice quotes from John Berger’s About Looking, which was worth re-reading:
All theories of ultimate origin are only ways of better defining what followed.Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but…
I have been privileged to give a number of talks for colleagues at Stanford and UCSF while on sabbatical. One of the topics that I have been talking about is physicians and social media. Here is a version of my social media talk, adapted for the internet and housed in Speakerdeck, in which I talk about why it’s important for physicians and researchers to be on social media. I think it’s a nice complement to David Shaywitz’s excellent article titled “Four Reasons Doctors Worry About Social Media - #GetOverIt” which came out in Forbes a few weeks ago.
A new look at the famous Harvard study of what makes people thrive
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Is it summer yet?
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This.
Changes.
EVERYTHING!
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My friend Vincent Pan is one of the coolest dudes I know. Oh yeah, he also donated his bone marrow and saved the life of a 13-year-old girl. All in a days work for Vincent. Join the registry and you can be just as cool as Vincent.
Current status!
