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by adgrooms on June 27, 2019

Radiohead is a popular rock band from England. Millions of fans around the world have bought their music since their debut in 1985. The band was recently hacked, and an archive of their music, not intended to be released to the public, was stolen. The archive contained ...

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by adgrooms on June 25, 2019

I was having lunch last week with a friend who hand-makes guitars. We live in Nashville, which has long been known as Music City. We got to talking about two of the leading guitar brands and both of our experiences with their cultural differences. Both manufacturers have been around for decades and are essentially household names. Our conversation got me thinking about the different ...

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by adgrooms on June 24, 2019

Decisions are something we all confront daily - from what to eat for breakfast to how to avoid a hazard in the road. Some are easy, some are hard. They have varying degrees of complexity and importance in our lives. Medical decisions can have a lasting and profound effect on our quality of life, but as a patient, we often defer decision making to our provider. When and how should patients be ...

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by adgrooms on June 21, 2019

Providers need the ability to use their hands. Unfortunately, the current state of affairs requires more clicking and documenting than assessing and healing with touch. New technology is on the horizon that may free the hands with new ways to navigate clinical systems.

Eye tracking uses light and a sensor to track where a user is looking and for how long. Ideally (see what I did there?), ...

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by adgrooms on June 19, 2019

On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747s collided killing 583 on a runway in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, off the coast of Morocco. This accident led to a new era of standardization and safety in aviation. Aviation studied its vulnerabilities and innovated to be a much safer form of transportation with .07 deaths per billion passenger miles, reducing the number of commercial fatalities from the ...

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