Cool Pictures IV: The Awesomeness is Volatile

[Borachio]

What's with the cat predators?

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[_random_]

Since cats are a thing now:

I first saw it in reference to Monday's football game.

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[Monsterzuma]

ugh

 

[Arakhor]

That's quite a cool gadget, but it would be quite problematic to keep clean and hygienic.

 

[bhsup]

Tire tracks on Mars!

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA 's robotic rover Curiosity is making its mark on Mars, in a way so big that it can be seen from space.

In just one month, it's driven 368 feet on the red planet, slightly more than the length of a football field. Curiosity's slightly zig-zaggy tire tracks were photographed by a NASA satellite circling Mars and also from the rover's rear-facing cameras.

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[Cutlass]

http://www.wherecoolthingshappen.com/1-perfectly-timed-photos/

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

This checklist saves lives.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

"I didn't go to medical school for 4 years and do [X] years of residency and etc. etc. just to follow some checklist like a mouthbreathing burger flipper!"

 

[Joecoolyo]

Spoiler :

http://www.wherecoolthingshappen.com/1-perfectly-timed-photos/

These are all great

 

[Tee Kay]

"I didn't go to medical school for 4 years and do [X] years of residency and etc. etc. just to follow some checklist like a mouthbreathing burger flipper!"

Would be funny if it's not a depressingly common attitude.

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[Glassfan]

That's the Lorena Bobbitt tool.

 

[bhsup]

The BOBBITIZER by Ronco! $19.99 plus S+H!

Anyway, with all the news about the most recent Mars lander, I thought I'd give a shout out to those brave robotic explorers of yesteryear, Spirit and Opportunity. Here's a nice 3-D image one sent back, but alas I cannot remember which...

Spoiler :

 

[Glassfan]

"I didn't go to medical school for 4 years and do [X] years of residency and etc. etc. just to follow some checklist like a mouthbreathing burger flipper!"

I work in a hospital and have seen checklists like this - it's not for surgeons! It's for the help - nurses, surgical tech's, equipment tech's and the like. Surgeons are the "rainmakers" and are not subject to mere checklists. Only us "mouthbreathing burger flippers" (thanks Eran) are.

To be fair, surgeons are subject to lawyers these days.

 

[Tee Kay]

I work in a hospital and have seen checklists like this - it's not for surgeons!

"...the entire team (nurses, surgeons, anesthesia professionals, and any others...)"

Checklists for surgeons are a new thing, introduced precisely because the sort of attitude you described where surgeons are regarded as infallible superhumans kills people.

 

[Meteor Man]

Most of the time, surgeons are infallible super-people. Going to med school for 4 years'll do that to ya.

 

[Monsterzuma]

Don't hate on checklists, yo. They are empirically proven to be awesome:

Use checklists. Yeah, everybody says that. And you probably don't consistently do it.

Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande analyzed their effectiveness in his book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. What happens when you consistently use checklists use across in an intensive care unit?

The proportion of patients who didn’t receive the recommended care dropped from seventy per cent to four per cent; the occurrence of pneumonias fell by a quarter; and twenty-one fewer patients died than in the previous year. The researchers found that simply having the doctors and nurses in the I.C.U. make their own checklists for what they thought should be done each day improved the consistency of care to the point that, within a few weeks, the average length of patient stay in intensive care dropped by half.

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/6-things-that-will-make-you-more-productive