Alan
@arehrlich
Alan
@arehrlich
High doses of radiation (>45 Gy) to the cochlea are strongly associated with permanent hearing loss
“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion – and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”
Ram Dass
Combining radiation therapy with platinum-based chemotherapy drugs like cisplatin significantly increases the risk of hearing loss. Cisplatin is highly ototoxic and exacerbates cochlear damage caused by radiation
Buggs Bunny and Elmer Fudd break into a distillery.
Buggs turns to Elmer and says, "Is this whiskey?"
Elmer says, "yeah, but not as whiskey as wobbing a bank."
As seen on the web
"Move in silence. Mellon intentionally stayed out of the headlines, which gave him more flexibility. As my friend Peter D. Kaufmann says, 'The whale that surfaces gets harpooned.'"
The Knowledge Project podcast, Shane Parrish of Farnam Street
Andrew Mellon