Daily Archives: January 28, 2008

A&E

In the UK the ER is called A&E (Accident & Emergency). It serves as Urgent Care as well as ER, which is why I found myself there yesterday having smacked my hand something fierce earlier in the day. The nurse practitioner looked at it, ordered an x-ray, then when that came back clear (no breaks, [...]

Insects to Fear

Via Neatorama, here’s a summary of the five scariest bugs in the world. I can’t encourage you to watch the videos, because I couldn’t get to the end of any of them: It’s the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison. We really wish we were making that up for, you know, [...]