Hsieh Forbes Column: How Often Do Medical Emergencies Occur On Airplanes?

My latest Forbes column is now out: "How Often Do Medical Emergencies Occur On Airplanes? What Passengers And Physicians Need To Know"

Awesome Guitar Intros

Video: "Top 80 Greatest Guitar Intros"

OpenAI Becomes For-Profit

"Microsoft and OpenAI's new for-profit deal gives Windows maker 27% stake"

Sturdy D-Cell Battery

Great experiment utilizing a Christmas card music player and a D-Cell battery.

14 years and 2 months!!!

The Misnomer Of The "Pneumonia Vaccine"

Dr. Amesh Adalja: "In this video I discuss pneumococcal vaccination -- even though it's called the 'pneumonia vaccine' it is not about the prevention of pneumonia (but about prevention of invasive disease)"

In this video I discuss pneumococcal vaccination — even though it’s called the “pneumonia vaccine” it is not about the prevention of pneumonia (but about prevention of invasive disease) pic.twitter.com/MQMCV0lVKj

— Amesh Adalja (@AmeshAA) October 28, 2025

Superhuman Learning

"Thinking Machines challenges OpenAI's AI scaling strategy: 'First superintelligence will be a superhuman learner'"

AI False Alarm

"US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun"

Real Red October Navy Story

"'Sir, a Rogue Captain Is Stealing a Warship': The Real Hunt for Red October Story"

Quantum Computing Updates

"IBM says conventional AMD chips can run quantum computing error correction algorithm". 

Related: "Google says it has developed landmark quantum computing algorithm".

Inverted Picture

"Same picture when inverted"

Tesla Safety Data

Interesting Tesla safety data, posted 10/22/2025: 

Drivers using Autopilot technology: One crash per every 6.36 million miles driven. 

Drivers not using Autopilot: One crash per 993,000 miles driven. 

All drivers (per NHTSA): One crash per 702,000 miles driven.

Alzheimer's Progress

"Scientists Achieve 'Striking Reversal of Alzheimer's' in Mice"

Wave Math

"The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View"

Closer To Nanobots

"A Pill That Prints-An Ingestible Bioprinter for Non-Invasive Structured Bioink Deposition". (Via H.R.)

Semi-Telepathy

"MIT-Linked Startup Unveils 'Near-Telepathic' Wearable Device for Silent Communication". (Via H.R.)

Changes These iPhone Settings

"The 25 Key Settings You Need to Change on Your iPhone"

Amit Kukreja Deep Dive On BMNR

"BMNR: Tom Lee Is Buying Ethereum Faster Than You or I Can". (Not financial advice.)

Jimmy Wales Interview In NYT

I'm looking forward to reading this in-depth interview of Jimmy Wales in the NY Timeson the culture wars, Wikipedia, Elon Musk, etc.!

Glovepipe Tutorial

Video: The Glovepipe Tutorial (Via T.K.)

Bad Password

"McDonald's AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password '123456'"

MIT SEAL

"Self-improving language models are becoming reality with MIT's updated SEAL technique"

Organ Transplant Near Disaster

"A Surgical Team Was About To Harvest This Man's Organs -- Until His Doctor Intervened"

[Larry] Black [a] 22-year-old patient, had arrived at the hospital after getting shot in the head on March 24, 2019. A week later, he was taken to surgery to have his organs removed for donation -- even though his heart was beating and he hadn’t been declared brain-dead, Zohny said. 

Black's sister Molly Watts said the family had doubts after agreeing to donate Black’s organs but felt unheard until the 34-year-old doctor, in his first year as a neurosurgeon, intervened. 

Today, Black, now 28, is a musician and the father of three children. He still needs regular physical therapy for lingering health issues from the gun injury. And Black said he is haunted by what he remembers from those days while he was lying in a medically induced coma...

This kind of transplant surgery mishap is very rare. But it should be "never", not "rare".

Digital ID And Blockchain

"Bhutan to Anchor National Digital ID on Ethereum by Early 2026"

Bone Healing Update

"Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun". (Via H.R.)

Easter Island Statues

"How Easter Island's giant statues 'walked' to their final platforms". (Via H.R.)

iPhone Settings

"The 25 Key Settings You Need to Change on Your iPhone"

AI And Stroke Detection

"What Could Go Right? AI Triples Stroke Recovery Rates". (Via Ari A.)

Life Saving Facts

Sam Ghali, MD: "Share a life-saving medical fact everyone should know"

QC And Cryptocurrency

"Will Quantum Computers Break Bitcoin?"

Light Posting Notice

Admin note: Posting will be light or non-existent this week due to external obligations.