Great Picture

By Mort

I saw this picture hanging on the wall in the lobby of my faculty, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.  My biostatistics TA, Rony-Reuven Nir, took it.  It’s fantastic.

These other pics I received in an email chain about 10 years ago.  The subject ran something like great pics of the year, but I don’t have the original email.  They’re also incredible.  Posted below the pictures are the explanations as I got them.

Pilot Ron Candiloro breaks through the sound barrier in an F/A-18 Homet fighter plane over the Pacific Ocean on July 7. The cloud ball effect is caused when forward sound waves squeeze moisture in the air.

Black sun – the last solar eclipse of the millennium is seen in this multiple exposure photograph as it appeared from the famous Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on Aug 11.

Falling for colour – hundreds of cars jam a road in Nikko, Japan on Nov 3, as drivers slow down to admire the colourfully tinted leaves of autumn.

Singers perform on a giant stage on Lake Constance during a rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera ‘Ein Maskenball’ on July 15. The design of the stage in the lake shows ‘Death’ reading the book of life.

Study Shows Possible Link Between Deaths and ADHD Drugs

By Me

This was taken from the Washington Post:

Children taking stimulant drugs such as Ritalin to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are several times as likely to suffer sudden, unexplained death as children who are not taking such drugs, according to a study published yesterday that was funded by the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institute of Mental Health.

While the numbers involved in the study were very small and researchers stopped short of suggesting a cause and effect, the study is the first to rigorously demonstrate a rare but worrisome connection between ADHD drugs and sudden death among children. In doing so, the research adds to the evolving puzzle parents and doctors face in deciding whether to treat children with medication. Read more »