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Interesting article from NPR that describes the problems with the Body Mass Index rating. Most of the reason are pretty straightforward, and obvious to anybody who actually exerts some brain power to study the very simplistic formula. 1. The person who dreamed up the BMI said explicitly that it could not and should not be [...]
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In this case, it’s a Plasma Knife! According to this Popular Science article, it’s a medical tool, not a battlefield weapon. The knife, whose blade consists of heated, ionized gas, cuts through flesh just as easily a steel scalpel, but also cauterizes the wound. By sealing off the damaged flesh, the plasma knife protects against [...]
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Darpa is looking for a device to produce a steady supply of universal donor red blood cells. They want to be able to produce ready-to-be-infused Red Blood Cell packets for use near the battlefield. DARPA has awarded a $1.95 million contract to Arteriocyte, a Cleveland company that’s experimenting with a technology developed at Johns Hopkins that enables the [...]
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First customers would be US military personnel. From the MIT Tech Review: The majority of deaths on the battlefield occur within half an hour after injury–often too quickly for a soldier to get to a medic, let alone a hospital. But a collaboration between researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Clarkson [...]
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