Comments for The Paradigm Revolution

Comment on Texas School Board Rewrites History by Miles

Miles — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:35:38 +0000

Having lived in Texas as a youth, during 1978-1986 (due to my fathers work), the history taught in classrooms was of a very selective nature, so much so as to be purely propagandist, o missive and factually contradictory,. I think the term I would describe would be self congratulatory, more akin to masturbatory. It is no wonder the Americans are regarded as largely ignorant of historical fact, of their own and the world. The chips on their shoulders are put there from a very early age.
I escaped back to England as soon as I could. It took me some time to recover from the U.S. experience..That is a fact…

Comment on Wii Therapy by handbiofeedback

handbiofeedback — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:00:43 +0000

Reference upper extremity fine motor rehabilitation, it is important that a dedicated rehabilitation system like the HandTutorsystem is used. Rehabilitation using the Wii does not take into account the problem of the patient implementing a compensatory movement pattern in order to achieve the Wii task. In addition the Wii does not exercise fine motor movements.

The Wii is a form of task specific training. One important factor in task orientated traditional training is the proprioception tactile feedback path information that the patient receives from the object during and after the task. This infomation is missing from the Wii and other from more expensive virtual reality systems. This task orientated feedback ensures that the patient learns to correct their movement pattern planning and implementation again ensuring that a compensatory movement pattern does not result.

Training with the HandTutor works on all motor and sensory movement impairments and provides active isolated and interjoint finger and wrist movement practice. The HandTutor is a rehabilitation glove and software which offers impairment oriented training and augmented feedback. The HandTutor encourages active repetitive customized isolated or inter joint coordinated finger and wrist hand exercises and rehabilitates fine movements of the hand and wrist.

On a practical treatment aspect, many patients do not have sufficient movement ability to enable them to do repetitive active tasks or the active tasks can not be customized to work on their specific motor, sensory or cognitive impairment.

Upper extremity hand rehabilitation using the HandTutor will ensure that the patient improves fine motor functional ability which is essential for completing upper extremity/ limb Active Daily Living tasks.

Comment on Reintroduction of Oxygen May Increase Morbidity Following Cardiac Arrest by Wil Finley

Wil Finley — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:58:08 +0000

Maciej – Yeah, I agree, 80% does seem too good to be true, another reason why I would like to see additional studies with larger sample sizes and better controls.

My main source for this article is from Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/35045/page/1. It is also the URL under the “tested an alternative method” hyperlink in the article. They also discussed induced hypothermia to decrease metabolic rates as you mentioned.

Comment on Reintroduction of Oxygen May Increase Morbidity Following Cardiac Arrest by Maciej Bogowicz

Maciej Bogowicz — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:19:56 +0000

80% of live discharges just sounds to good to be true.
BTW the procedure used here not only affects the oxygenation but metabolic rate as well. Similar method is used when active cooling is implemented (Down to 32 Deg C).
Another thing is that the organ most sensitive to lack of oxygen is brain. I wonder why did this influence the mortality so much.
Main question. DO you have a source?

Comment on Reintroduction of Oxygen May Increase Morbidity Following Cardiac Arrest by Ashley Ridler

Ashley Ridler — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:46:35 +0000

Extremely interesting write up Will. I admit that I know very little that is medically relevant to this article (being an accountant) but I found it fascinating. It appears that although unresearched for so long this initial study could pave the way forward to some vital changes in reviving and treating patients. I will most certainly be looking at how this develops.

Comment on Study Reports Health, Life Insurers Invest Nearly $2 Billion in Fast Food by J

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:56:08 +0000

Anyone familiar with Peter Drucker or Ben & Jerry’s would use this research to highlight the opportunity of such companies to use their leverage for the greater good by pulling their investments from companies negatively impacting not only society, but in this case, their bottom line. This would require much more micromanagement of their investments, but it would be neat to see them pull out from the tobacco and fast food industries, and instead divert such funding to aid the expansion of chains of health food stores or gyms, for example.

Comment on Government Requests – Google’s New Software Shames the Man by Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:30:00 +0000

Being court ordered to remove some of these items and then posting exactly what they were would probably defeat the purpose by giving them a lot more publicity. So I doubt they will ever get specific.
I am really curious about that 1 book search in the US, though.

Comment on iPhone Serendipity: the Best Childhood Education Tool on the Market by MFC

MFC — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:42:57 +0000

I am personally dumbfounded by seeing a toddler interact with smart phone technology with the ease of the hand models that stream through applications on Mac commercials. Coordination, decision making, and technical ability are only a few items on the massive list of skills that she will gain and utilize to a point far past children twice, three times her age. I already see skills in her that your average first or second grader would only be beginning to learn. I didn’t gain a true technical ability until I was far into my late teenage years, if I had been able to access and learn these things as a child, I have no doubt that I would be more advanced now.

Comment on iPhone Serendipity: the Best Childhood Education Tool on the Market by Josh

Josh — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:27:08 +0000

If she enjoys interacting with the iPhones that much, just think how giddy she would be if you plopped an iPad in front of her. It’s like a supersized iPhone!

Comment on iPhone Serendipity: the Best Childhood Education Tool on the Market by Wifey

Wifey — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:59:41 +0000

It’s also important to consider that it is doubtful her learning to recite numbers without actually counting objects or to identify shapes she won’t use until Geometry class adds to her foundational exposure to the world (in many ways, it’s just as much a waste of time and just as effective as those ridiculous Your Baby Can Read programs), the most necessary education still flourishes through the interaction of reading with us (not the reading itself) and being outside or playing with friends. More than anything, the iPhone is teaching her to interact with technology at a young age, a skill that she will absolutely be required to exponentially increase over the course of her life.