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May 09

The most accurate television show about the medical profession? Scrubs. – By Joanna Weiss – Slate Magazine – [If] you talk to doctors, they'll often sing the praises of one medical show in particular, which they say captures the training process, the profession, and the dynamics of a hospital with remarkable accuracy. No, it's not House, the tale of a misanthrope who happens to be a doctor. It's not Grey's Anatomy, a torrid romance novel disguised as a medical show. It's not even the recently departed ER, which broke television ground with its realistic gore. It's Scrubs.

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May 09

Pew Research Center: A Fast Look at How Impressions of Barack Obama Have Changed – Interactive display, showing what went up, and what went down.
10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company – ReadWriteStart – 1. Is this your first venture? 2. Are you really an entrepreneur? 3. Does your venture involve something you understand really well? 4. Can your mother understand the value proposition? 5. Can you see the right wave? 6. What does your startup want to be when it grows up? 7. Starting a company is hard and uncertain. 8. Get a partner or fly solo? 9. Would you refuse a well-paying job to do this? 10. Can you raise appropriate financing?

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Apr 09

Verifiable.com – Turn any set of numbers into an explanatory picture with Verifiable.com
Galileo heralded the end of the dark ages with the term "visible certainty". The term celebrates the use of visible evidence to prove that the earth revolved around the sun. Previously The Church had required that all arguments be faith based. We at Visible Certainty, Inc. are committed to products that enable ALL arguments to be fact based. Verifiable.com is our first offering.

Get your own "visible certainty" by using Verifiable.com which enables you to click thru to the data behind the visualization, or rechart it using different criteria, or add any other piece of data onto it for comparison.