Topic
medicine
- Peter Attia on Colorectal Cancer Screening
Peter Attia is speaking my language here: In my practice, we typically encourage average-risk individuals to get a colonoscopy by age 40, but even sooner if anything suggests they may be at higher risk. This includes…
- Weekend Reading: Virtual Oncology, Waymo Data, and the Future of Programming
🧪 Virtual Oncology A discussion among physicians on how oncology is changing and will likely continue to evolve in the wake of the coronavirus. Testing, chemo, and other treatment steps currently considered to be sta…
- The 5 Revolutions in Cancer Treatment
This talk from Jonathan Lim gives a good overview of how the newest treatments for cancer work — radiation/chemo, targeted therapies, immunotherapy, and ecDNA. I wrote about my experience with immunotherapy and how it…
- The Coronavirus Would Be Worse Without the Web
Tyler Cowen's recent piece in Bloomberg makes the case that technology is helping, not hurting the cause of containing the pandemic. The openness of the web was certainly instrumental in forcing transparency on the pa…
- The Infinity Machine
This one is part book review and part reflection on some personal experience, a chance to write about some science related to a harrowing past experience. A couple of years ago I had a run in with genetics-gone-wrong,…
- Weekend Reading: Brain MRI, Flash Cards, and Movie Maps
🧠 7 Tesla MRI of a Human Brain This is one of the highest resolution scans ever performed on a human brain, at 100 micrometer resolution. Scroll down to see some awesome images. 👨🏻🏫 Anki Anki is an open source fr…