Wired Science has a nice, succinct slideshow highlighting a selection of important scientific texts. Among them, of course, is Gray's Anatomy. Tanya Lewis writes: Without …
Author: John Stafford
Happy Fourth of July: We’ll return Thursday
Our office is closed in honor of the Fourth of July holiday. We'll resume posting Thursday. Photo by DVIDSHUB
A look at the Stanford Cancer Institute
Stanford Hospital & Clinics filmmaker Todd Holland has created this six-minute video about the Stanford Cancer Institute and it features a number of School of …
Image of the Week: Signature
You may have heard that, earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court mostly upheld the Affordable Care Act. Presented for your viewing pleasure, then, is …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of June 24
The five most-read stories on Scope this week were: Stanford experts respond to Supreme Court's decision on health law: Stanford faculty offer their thoughts on …
Video: How pain relievers work
This neat TEDEducation video explains how humans experience pain and how medicines such as aspirin or ibuprofen relieve pain. Enjoy (hopefully painlessly)! Via Devour
A minute-by-minute account from inside the Supreme Court
The ABA Journal has just posted an absolutely fascinating account of the events that took place inside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court announced …
An in-depth look at lunch
Hot on the heels of finishing my lunch, I've just read Nicola Twilley's excellent history of lunch. She writes: As late as 1755, according to …
Discover Magazine looks at super human vision
Okay, I must confess that a serious misreading of a blog entry title - "The Super-Seers Who Live Among Us" - piqued my curiosity about …
Image of the Week: Quilled anatomy
This is one of many interesting anatomical works in quilled paper by artist Sara Yakawonis. You can see more of her work on her blog …
PeerJ open access publishing platform launches today
There's a nice profile of PeerJ, a new open access platform for the life sciences that launched today, on Reciprocal Space: It is a fascinating …
Well blog: Minnesota man denied insurance for donating kidney
I know only what is reported in this single Well entry, but, if it's accurate, this is shocking: When Erika Royer’s lupus led to kidney …
Video: A (robotic) six-fingered hand
This is what the world of bioengineering has given us today: a cross between The Empire Strikes Back and the Princess Bride. Medgadget reports: We’re …
What is coffee?
I've written about the suspected benefits of coffee before, but it's just occurred to me that I've (quite thoughtlessly) never explained what that most magic …
We're (mostly) back
We have returned from our server migration and we're catching up on our weekend posts. We have a little work remaining to do, but everything …
Scope will be back Monday (updated)
We've written 3,550 entries on Scope and we're tired. So we're going to take little breather to focus on our napping, fly fishing, whittling, knitting, …