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Humor Medicine

Are you ready for….Doctor Id?

Via Dr. Flea, I find this rather amusing cartoon: Dr. Id, written by Michelle, who, it turns out, was also responsible for the 12 Types of Med Students and a fairly spot-on portrayal of a medical student’s surgery rotation. Dr. Id says what other doctors only wish that they could say and does what other […]

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Entertainment/culture Humor Music

Weekend YouTube: There, now, that’s much better

You know, although I’m not exactly a huge fan of it, I have sometimes in the past liked to listen to a little dose (but just a little) dose of death metal. Sometimes I’m just in the mood for some over-the-top growled lyrics of death, doom, violence, and destruction shrieked over a churning demonic-sounding metal […]

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Humor Science fiction/fantasy

Doctor Who Geekery

When you don’t have time to write something substantive, what do you do? Post YouTubes videos, of course! Sadly, I can almost relate to this one (after all, thanks to BitTorrent, I have now seen all of the episodes from season two of the resurrected series, with David Tennant playing The Doctor): (Hat tip: Stupid […]

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Humor Medicine Surgery

Who’s responsible for global warming?

It looks as though it’s time to ‘fess up. It’s us surgeons who are the source of all that CO2. Sid Schwab tells us why. (And, no, it’s not because of all the hot air we surgeons are capable of producing; we’re nothing compared to politicians in that respect.)

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Entertainment/culture Humor Music Popular culture

Weekend YouTubes from Hell: Because you asked for it, more Shatner genius!

Last weekend, I posted a YouTube video of William Shatner singing Elton John’s Rocket Man in his–shall we say?–unique fashion. A fellow ScienceBlogger commented and asked if there was a video of Shatner singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I’m not sure that this quite qualifies as what he had in mind, but it’s […]