Artifacts Archive


Via this tweet by @thestudentdoc.

[Raphael was alluding to these two posts]

What makes a 300-year-old pocket watch tick? : Nature News

State-of-the-art X-ray scans have revealed the internal mechanisms of a corroded, barnacle-covered pocket watch recovered from a seventeenth-century wreck. The watch looks little more than a lump of rock from the outside, but the scans show [...]

Blogiversary.

blogiversary has gained official status as a word in at least one online dictionary.
scan man’s notes completes one year of existence today.
The monster is alive and well, though it doesn’t seem so monstrous.
There are 145 posts in my blog with about 480 comments (including those in the older version of my blog). Which amounts [...]

Dr. Laughlin C. Dawes is a Radiology Registrar at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney.
He has a new site: “Radiology Picture of the Day,” where he is
..posting a new image every day. It’s hard work, but it’s also a lot of fun.
Looking through his archives I found a nice mix of cases representing all [...]

I came across an amazing video at Kidneynotes last night.1

You can see the same 8 minute animation video on ‘The Inner Life of a Cell‘ with a better resolution here.
Though the video was spellbinding, I did not really understand what was going on. Some link chasing and Googling got some results.
This is from an article [...]

Music Meme.

As usual…
Here I am…
Minding my own business…
And along comes a habitual offender…
and does it again
A short digression before I play. Why seven songs and seven people? Is it because of the சப்தஸ்வரங்கள் (sapthaswarangal)?
Actually this meme was too easy…
I just picked the next seven songs that played on shuffle mode in my iTunes’ Top [...]

A Blog Meme

This has now become an established routine.
A meme goes around the blogosphere……reaches Moof…….and she tags me.
I don’t know if I said something that annoyed her and she decided ‘யாம் பெற்ற இன்பம் பெறுக இவனும்.’ [1]
Moreover, this is a ‘blog meme’ in the true sense and is more appropriate for experienced and established bloggers. Not [...]