Sixty-six million years ago, a giant meteor slammed into Earth off the coast of modern-day Mexico. Firestorms incinerated the landscape for miles around. Even creatures thousands of miles away were doomed on that fateful day, if not by fire and brimstone, then by mega-earthquakes and waves of unimaginable size.
Now, scientists have unearthed a remarkable trove of fossils that appear to date from the very day of the impact…
Month: March 2019
SR-71 Blackbird
This is an old story about an amazing piece of technology:
There were a lot of things we couldn’t do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment…
https://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041
“I’m going to kill you, Chad!”
“Oh no thanks.”
This Saturday Night Live skit had me laughing out loud for the rest of the evening. Guys, pay attention exactly one minute in:
Comparing hospitals
Check this website to directly compare up to three local hospitals in 28 areas, for example “MRSA Infections.” Each measurement is explained clearly; for MRSA Infections:
Leapfrog uses a standardized infection ratio (SIR) calculated by the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to compare the number of infections that actually happened at this hospital to the number of infections expected for this hospital, given various facility factors. A number lower than one means fewer infections than expected; a number more than one means more infections than expected.
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