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neilpollyticks.bsky.social
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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pferdhosen.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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jumbogroove.dev
I attribute like 90% of my limited shader knowledge to this amazing video from Freya Holmér

youtu.be/kfM-yu0iQBk?...
Shader Basics, Blending & Textures • Shaders for Game Devs [Part 1]
YouTube video by Freya Holmér
youtu.be
December 28, 2024 at 6:52 PM
bdtrap.bsky.social
Eat your vegetables or you won’t get any ice-cream.
October 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM
bdtrap.bsky.social
To be honest, having a corpse as a stand-in for Trump seems appropriate
September 9, 2024 at 3:59 PM
bdtrap.bsky.social
It's only bigot when it comes from the region of Belfort. Otherwise, it's just sparkling bigot.
June 13, 2024 at 7:41 PM