Pediatric cardiac transplant

Written by a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon (remember when CC wanted to be one?).

"There are certainly more difficult procedures in congenital cardiac surgery to perform than a heart transplant, but few freighted with more anticipation. After all, the heart that we are asking to sustain our patient started off this morning in another child."

Interesting, sad, and miraculous.

A bit of midweek cheer

I was touched by many of these, and picture #21 = instant happiness.

Art for Children

Art for Children series by Ernest Lloyd Raboff, introducing children to some of the great artists. It looks like they're out of print, but relatively easy to find.

That's why you have a wife.

"Asked, 'Do you think that having children then is difficult to manage with being a scientist?' one physicist said, 'No, absolutely not. That’s why you have a wife.'"

Nothing particularly new here.  But I did find it interesting to read an article like this focusing on scientists.  Especially since ambitious scientists often marry other ambitious scientists.

BIL and TED

I love that there is a companion/reaction conference to TED named BIL.

The Story of a Story

Journalism Tumblr. I found it through the website of the great journalist Amy Wallace.

Another useful style post

This one is on creating style "use cases" so that you have the right clothes for all of the different contexts that you need to wear them in.

Notch on patents

Notch (developer of Minecraft): "If you own a software patent, you should feel bad."

Bonobos

Current obsession: bonobos!  Did you know that they can communicate with humans using panels of lexigrams, have matriarchal societies, and have never been witnessed killing each other?  And check out this video of a bonobo father playing with his son:

Another one:

Oh, Singapore...

I know what's going on our late night playlist...

Club Getaway

This place sounds like fun... if we were still 20.

Homonymic marriage

I loved <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2012/08/couples_with_the_same_first_name_gay_marriage_and_homonymy_.2.html">this article</a> about couples with the same first name -- hilarious, but with an optimistic message.

More goat

This time as decor.

Silhouettes

Silhouette cutters. They do it very quickly, and freehand! (And they're available for weddings, but in the UK.)