Author Archives: Stan Flouride

This cool poster by my pal Lily Prillinger was chosen for this year’s Haight Ashbury Street Fair. It’s the first time that the one I voted for has won and the first time I plan on buying the t-shirt of.

A misguided attempt to improve healthcare has led some hospitals to focus on making people happy, rather than making them well. Patient surveys won’t drastically and directly improve healthcare. But research has shown that hiring more nurses, and treating them … Continue reading →

Daito Manabe produced this music video by attaching electrodes to his volunteer victims that deliver a series of electric shocks that cause his “dancers” to spasm and twitch to the beat of the music.

Frida Kahlo met José Bartoli in New York while she was recuperating from spinal surgery stemming from a bus accident in her youth. Their love affair continued after Kahlo returned to Mexico to her beloved Casa Azul and her husband … Continue reading →

Part of my job as building manager is to take out the recycling, compost, and garbage bins. I always go through them and make sure they’re correctly sorted and today I found these in my recycling. Unopened, still hermetically sealed.

The following articles appeared in Archeology.org News while I was in Mexico: Tsunami May Have Struck Yucatan Peninsula 1,500 Years Ago http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2015/03/05/evidence-indicates-yucatan-peninsula-likely-hit-tsunami-1500-years-ago Maya Water Temple Discovered in Belize   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150127-maya-water-temple-drought-archaeology-science/ Drought Contributed to Decline of Mesoamerican City https://www.llnl.gov/news/lawrence-livermore-research-finds-early-mesoamericans-affected-climate-change Study underscores complexity … Continue reading →

Despite plentiful evidence of raptors and other dinos having feathers, the makers of the upcoming latest installment of the Jurassic Park saga have chosen to keep them nekkid. I guess they lack the imagination to see tyrannosaurines with feathers as scary … Continue reading →

Is by Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors) and the original shows the recent lunar eclipse: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150409.html