As I reported on my new Health Informatics Blog, the boss of the Google Health project has quit to pursue other projects.

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I’ve posted a video up of Hugo Ortega’s HTC Shift Review over on the Doctors’ Gadgets blog.

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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have just been on-stage at the D Conference.

The videos of Gates and Jobs are now up on the D website:

http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070530/video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-prologue/

DentalDiscussion.com is a new website for dentists and dental students. The site contains Anatomy animations, Articles about Dentistry and a Community Discussion forum.

Via Digg:

Humans are still better than computers at a wide range of problems and lots of people waste a lot of time on playing computer games. This presentation describes research that has people playing games to solve problems computers can’t solve.

What’s the cheapest and fastest way to transfer terrabytes of information across the world? Google has the answer - it’s Sneakernet (aka FedExNet).

In this world of broadband, fibre optics and satellite communications some might be suprised to think that scientists at leading research institutions have no better way of transferring large amounts of data than to put it in the post.

Google sends out a hard drive array to the scientists who then transfer across their data. The drive is then sent back to google who transfer the information across to their own system.

Google now has a copy of the data and can transfer it onto additional hard disk and post them out to whoever needs the data.

Source: Wired

Scienceroll has found some vintage medical Monty Python videos:

3 more videos on Scienceroll - check them out!