I’ve always played video games. From the seven year old kid messing with an Atari 2600, to the uber geeky jock that loved playing R-Type on the Commodore64 as much as a good pickup game of basketball, to the highschool student that literally lived through the Kings / Space / Hero’s Quest games, and the [...]

According to British scientists, women on birth control pills are less attracted to the quintessential macho men. Strong, rugged looks give way to men with feminine features. The Johnny Depps and Orlando Blooms are preferred over the Vin Diesels and Daniel Craigs of the world. This may spell good news for all the slackers who [...]

In my experience, the typical medical student shifts in alignment based on varying amounts of sleep deprivation, hunger, sense of irony and the urge to mate. Thanks to the folks at Comics Alliance for this.

Yup, sorry. Words cannot describe how little I enjoyed the Transformers film this afternoon. As the plot trudged from one improbable set piece to the next, my mind kept wandering back to the EPIC Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer that ran before the movie. If you’re not an Avatar fan, well then, your nerdcore,md credentials [...]

So it looks like that with the new Obama administration, Healthcare is finally getting the spot light it needed. Unfortunately, it actually needed this about 30 years ago. Yet, when you think about it, this is a problem that we dug ourselves into. If I had to choose one word to describe why we are [...]

So I just saw Star Trek. To be honest I had somewhat low expectations for JJ Abram’s ‘reboot’ of the franchise, or the ‘Cannon’ as true die hards would perhaps refer to it. Let me just start out by saying that I absolutely loved it. From the aggressive and moving first act to how each [...]

So what is this Nerdcore Learning thing that you speak of? Well for those of you that didn’t meet Francis and I at the Nerdcore Learning booth at AMSA 2009 (American Medical Student Assn) in March, allow me to re-cap. We’re a publishing start-up devoted to developing unique study-aids for medical students. We also happen [...]