Black hole batteries, 2-at-a-time reading, Coffee with confusion, Edge on Edge, Names harvest

This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Tiny black hole batteries — … They handwave away the swath of problems reputed to afflict anyone who suggests even going near a black hole. Their black hole, they specify, will be a “tiny black hole”. This […]

Emperor’s Missing Heart, Vibrant Gut, More Trivial Superpowers, Greenfieldwashing

This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Find the emperor’s heart — Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great certainly wasn’t, in the purest medical sense, heartless. But now he is. The search is on to find his missing heart, though it isn’t abundantly […]

And the heartbeat goes on: Nurse’s gift memento of patients’ final thumps

Becker’s Hospital Review reports: How this Intermountain nurse comforts deceased patients’ families Written by Mackenzie Bean A registered nurse at Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Medical Center is responsible for spearheading an initiative to comfort the families of patients who died at the hospital’s respiratory intensive care unit, reports KSL TV. To comfort patients’ relatives, Lisa Beglarian, […]

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