They're a little smaller than that, thankfully. They're pretty big for a baby, though. I can't think of anything comparable... they're triangular and thick, but only a couple square inches. Like a big keychain. Luckily babies don't move around much, so dangling a keychain off them doesn't seem to bother them at all.

In our hospital we band babies before they leave the delivery room (just like we put a name band on every other patient). We also attach little transmitters that set off alarms if anyone without an appropriate hospital badge tries to take them from the birth center. I don't know how Russian "birth houses" do it,…

I have never heard of these books. I just stopped to say that poor woman in the picture is about to rip her lips off with a bowstring.

A wallet is a bad place to keep a condom because heat enhances the break down of latex, making a condom held close to your body for hours a day more prone to breakage than one stored in the always-recommended-for-everything cool, dry place. Unless "2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate-Glycerol Methacrylate" is a derivative of…

What's this AOL? Listen, if it's not on my Prodigy homepage, I don't hear about it.

The pedantic part: Photons have mass. It's very tiny, but it's there. So when you observe an image you're actually reacting to photons reflecting off the object and hitting your retina. The frequency of the vibration of the photons determines the color you see. So images are made up of the interaction of an object,…

Fear is hard to test in humans, but stress isn't. There's even a blood test for it! Stress causes the hypothalamus to release CRH, which signals the pituitary to release ACTH, which then travels through the blood to the adrenal glands (snuggled on top of your kidneys) to release cortisol. Cortisol is easy to test for,…

If you click on the MSNBC link, it links further to Skymania here, which says:

Neat. Washington state, all up on your Giz again. First we had the guy who chopped his arm off with a guillotine, now Fred Hutch! Go WA.

AGH! Why do birds keep flying into my smartphone!?

None of the articles do much explaining of the locations of things... and really there's no way to know the hospital is uphill from the the Urology Associates unless you live here. But I'm happy to provide context!

They moved him to Harborview in Seattle now, according to the article. He even got the expensive ride - on the airlift helicopter. That's outside my jurisdiction (and gas ain't cheap, yo).

Fucked up. I live in Bellingham, and work at the hospital... figures I've had the last few days off. I miss all the crazy stuff.

The urology clinic and the hospital are on the same street (Squalicum Parkway, which turns into Birchwood as it winds down a hill), but the urology clinic is both arguably closer to the camp and downhill (a fairly steep hill). So if I had to guess I'd say he went to the nearest doctor, concerned he'd bleed out before…

My dictionary says you have that backwards. Except for the sailing term part.

That is literally the sentiment the next clause of the sentence you partially quoted expresses.

For what it's worth, I'm sure most of us would love to try rich people's problems for a while - I have difficulty imagining that I'd worry much if I knew I didn't have to concern myself with whether I could afford rent, food and medical bills - but research has shown that people generally don't find happiness in money…

So, wait... The Koala is a print version of 4chan?

I used $1 and $2 coins in Canada when I lived there for a few years. No big deal. People are just whiny bitches. Push it through, they'll whine, then in five years they'll never know the difference.

This was the first time I've ever been prompted to enable 1-click, and I've downloaded 12 or 13 apps from them, so... I dunno.