Monetizing Scrambled Thoughts

Are you planning a career path in health care industry? Would you prefer to start your career sooner than later and be part of a team that helps heal community around you? If yes, then what are you waiting for, consider becoming a ultrasound tech or diagnostic medical sonographer. Medical career training can be attained in several ultrasound tech schools like like colleges and universities with a formal training of two to four-year programs.

A diagnostic medical sonographer’s job is generally to perform ultrasound tests. It is the use of sound waves that travels inside the body to develop an image or picture of what’s inside of the body. Ultrasounds are commonly use on pregnant woman to check the health of an unborn child or it can also be use to analyze and determine a number of health problems. They may specialize in obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound (study of the female reproductive system, and examining a pregnant patient’s fetus to track it’s growth), abdominal (the liver, kidneys, gall bladder, spleen, and pancreas), neuro sonography (the brain) or opthalmologic (the eyes.)

By completing and passing the certification exam in an accredited ultrasound technician school, you’re career marketability is high and advance as most employers prefer to hire candidates that received formal training and passing exams.

A tiny water walking machine

The way water striders walk on water was discovered years ago. The insect uses its long legs to help evenly distribute its tiny body weight. The weight is distributed over a large area so that the fragile skin formed by surface tension supports the bug on the water. However, the ability of water striders to jump onto water without sinking has baffled scientists, until now.

A team of researchers at Seoul National University, led by Ho-Young Kim and Duck-Gyu Lee, has finally answered that question. By using a highly water-repellent sphere, which mimicked the actions of the water strider’s highly water-repellent legs, they were able to determine a small range of speeds at which the sphere or insect could hit the water and not sink. (more…)

Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have demonstrated that neurons cultured outside the brain can be imprinted with multiple rudimentary memories that persist for days without interfering with or wiping out others.”The main achievement was the fact that we used the inhibition of the inhibitory neurons” to stimulate the memory patterns, says physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob, senior author of a paper on the findings published in the May issue of Physical Review E. “We probably made [the cell culture] trigger the collective mode of activity that … [is] … possible.” (more…)