Wada Test - awake unilateral intra-carotid injection of a barbituate to anesthetize half of the brain. The aim is to determine which side of the brain is responsible for certain vital cognitive functions, namely speech and memory.
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Welcome to the conceptual age
Level Up: Gamers Become Scientists By Competing To Design The Best RNA Molecules | Fast Company
EteRNA, the new project from the brains behind FoldIt, wants to create and study RNA molecules to help cure diseases. Turn out if you give a gamer a chance, they can design RNA molecules far better than any computer.
Welcome to the conceptual age.
High concept - the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to combine seemingly unrelated ideas into a novel invention.
High Touch - the ability to empathize, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in oneself and to ellicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning.
Daniel Pink - A Whole New Mind
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The death of the reign of the knowledge worker
Outsourcing is over-hyped in the short term, but it’s under-hyped in the long term… If standardized, routine, L-directed (left brained) work such as financial analysis, radiology, and computer programming can be done for a lot less overseas and can be delivered to clients instantly over fiber optic links, that’s where the work will go… Many of today’s knowledge workers will have to command a new set of aptitudes. They’ll need to do what workers abroad can not do equally well for much less money: Using R-directed (right brain) abilities such as forging relationships rather than executing transactions, tackling novel challenges instead of solving routine problems, and synthesizing a big picture rather than analyzing a single component.
(Daniel Pink - A Whole New Mind)
In a nutshell this is why I have not even entertained radiology. Services like Nighthawk are already out sourcing the reading of films. Radiologist are primed for large pay cuts. Likewise, other image based specialties like pathology will be next as slides become increasingly digitized.
