My two favorite medical blunders in TV/movies.
Nasal cannulas. Almost never see them applied correctly.
EMS treating a patient by having them sit on the back of the ambulance.
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That's actually a great idea.
What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation | US education | The Guardian
I see way more Nirvana shirts today than I saw back when they were actually playing.
First time I heard this theory was in a James Bond story. Bond meets a woman who drives a bashed up car. Same reasoning; if it looks like she's dangerous people will steer clear of her.
What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation | US education | The Guardian
I used to work in public health. One of the things they teach is that only the addict can decide if they are addicted. No one improves until they admit that they are powerless to stop on their own.
What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation | US education | The Guardian
Smartphones and apps are scientifically designed to be addictive. The same techniques that make people spend hours at slot machines goes into modern games.
Back in the day, both Harlan Ellison and Hunter Thompson wrote about the economics of being a writer. Around 1970 [iirc] Ellison said that if he sold one TV script a year he could pay his bills and write what he wanted. Thompson's "Hell's Angels" has a chapter on being a 'drop out.' A biker could get a Union stevedore job and save enough in six months to hit the road for two years. A part time waitress could keep herself and her musician boyfriend going.
Or people could stop thinking small.
Back in the day, the GOP was completely controlled by Big Business. A guy named Jerry Falwell saw how Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy had gotten him elected and jumped in. He organized his people at the grassroots level. If there was a local Republican club that got 20 people at the average meeting, Jerry's church group would show up with fifty. At the start, they were getting dog catchers and county clerks in, but eventually their power grew.
Read a story about Anthony Scaramucci, the Trump one day wonder. He set up a meet and greet for sugar daddies and potential babies at his restaurant. He'd invite 20 males and 30 females, so the daddies could instantly see who was the most desperate.
I had to look this up, but it is a fact that certain letters were banned. I should not be so amazed. Back in the 1960's the Greek junta banned the letter Z, because it meant 'he is alive.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(1969_film) the movie is a fictional, but based on the actual events.
I avoid the official income averager for just that reason. It skews to make things look like they aren't as bad as they really are.
If you just look at the prices of houses and labor, you get a much different story.
Back in 1960, minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the average house was $11,000.00. A high school grad could buy a house.
Or, think of it this way. The 'offical' rate tells us that $1 million in 1960 would be $10 million today.
In 1960, $1 million meant a Beverly Hills mansion, a half dozen luxury cars, and enough left over to buy a block of businesses.
Today, $10 million will get you a condo in Manhattan.