Yorgo Veenhuyzen (@yorgo_v) 's Twitter Profile
Yorgo Veenhuyzen

@yorgo_v

Aging child, fan of reason, science, & Roger Federer. Director of the EP Training Program at the Libin CV Institute. My blog: skepsisdoxa.blogspot.ca

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Cory Muscara (@corymuscara) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Buddhist monks have some of the strongest & happiest minds in the world. I wanted to know why. So, when I was 22, I spent half a year training with them in a Burmese monastery. My biggest insight and transformation was NOT what I expected. Here's what it is:

Buddhist monks have some of the strongest & happiest minds in the world.

I wanted to know why.

So, when I was 22, I spent half a year training with them in a Burmese monastery.

My biggest insight and transformation was NOT what I expected.

Here's what it is:
Toby Ord (@tobyordoxford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Precisely fifty years ago the crew of Apollo 17 captured one of the most famous photographs of all time: The Blue Marble. 1/

Precisely fifty years ago the crew of Apollo 17 captured one of the most famous photographs of all time: The Blue Marble.
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JICE (@jice_ep) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨Latest #FreeRead Article in JICE High-density Mapping Improves Detection of Conduction Gaps after PVI Ablation with a Circular Mapping Catheter B Vandenberk, FR Quinn, J Barmby, SB Wilton & Vikas Kuriachan 📖🧐#FreeRead: rdcu.be/c1cec #EPeeps EP_Bot

🚨Latest #FreeRead Article in 
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High-density Mapping Improves Detection of Conduction Gaps after PVI Ablation with a Circular Mapping Catheter

B Vandenberk, FR Quinn, J Barmby, SB Wilton &amp; <a href="/KuriachanVikas/">Vikas Kuriachan</a>

📖🧐#FreeRead: rdcu.be/c1cec

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Patrick Mueller, MD (@dr_pmueller) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#Epeeps #EPfellows   In preparation 🚨➡️upcoming #DIFP2023 SVT course on Saturday: ↪️What is your 1st maneuver during SVT w/ 1:1 relation and concentric atrial activation? 🙏🏻 show up your pacing maneuvers Thomas Deneke Hein Heidbuchel Dr. José Ángel Cabrera BIOTRONIK News ALBERTO ALFIE Yorgo Veenhuyzen

Steve Stewart-Williams (@stevestuwill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Perceptual illusions show us in a clear and unambiguous way that we don't directly perceive the world around us. Perceptual experience is a simulation—a mental model—that doesn't always correspond to the reality it aims to depict." nautil.us/blog/12-mind_b…

Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Covid vaccines in Canada saved 35,000 lives, tens of billions of dollars in averted economic losses, according to C.D. Howe Institute study cdhowe.org/media-release/…

Anders Sandberg (@anderssandberg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

OK, this story is just unbelievably topical right now... and utterly an "I told you so" from the perspective AI safety community (especially the twist at the end). aerosociety.com/news/highlight…

OK, this story is just unbelievably topical right now... and utterly an "I told you so" from the perspective AI safety community (especially the twist at the end). aerosociety.com/news/highlight…
Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster, on this day in 1983, 39 years ago today, saw the word "LAUNCH" flash across the Soviet Union's attack early warning system. His screen stated with high reliability that a total of five American intercontinental

Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster, on this day in 1983, 39 years ago today, saw the word "LAUNCH" flash across the Soviet Union's attack early warning system. His screen stated with high reliability that a total of five American intercontinental
Dr. Jonathan N. Stea (@jonathanstea) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle): The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):  

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
Massimo (@rainmaker1973) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While 3D ultrasound tests can only visualize the three dimensions of an ultrasound picture, a 4D ultrasound test can show a dynamic picture. This is a fetus in the womb scanned with a 4D ultrasound [source: buff.ly/3qP13ZO] x.com/PsychologyDoc/…

Julia Grapsa MD, PhD (@jgrapsa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An 88-year-old woman underwent AV ablation and LBB pacing for AF ➡️ ED with dyspnea. ➡️ Large IVS hematoma, likely caused by bleeding from septal perforator arteries Check how Dr Trivedi et al treated this patient ➡️ lnkd.in/eK7QDsv6 #JACCCaseReports JACC Journals

Stephan J. Guyenet (@sguyenet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I don't think most people today realize how often people used to drop dead from heart attacks in the 50s and 60s. CVD prevention and treatment efforts in the US are a huge success story.

Andrew J Sauer MD (@andrewjsauer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

26% of cardiologists are 61+ yo If only half of them retire in the next five years, will we fill the void with freshly minted cardiologists? Only half of AHFTC fellowship spots are going filled? 8 million HF patients by 2030 Burnout epidemic. What should be done?

26% of cardiologists are 61+ yo

If only half of them retire in the next five years, will we fill the void with freshly minted cardiologists? 

Only half of AHFTC fellowship spots are going filled? 

8 million HF patients by 2030

Burnout epidemic. 

What should be done?
Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Those citing “Oppenheimer” as a cautionary tale for AI about the need to regulate dangerous technology may wish to consider that, after years of nuclear activism and regulation, we’ve kept its murderous uses and have essentially banned its unique promise: clean, limitless energy.

André Picard (@picardonhealth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s a privilege, not a right, to know your kid’s gender identity. Sadly, some kids live with parents who are transphobic. No province should forcibly out gender nonconforming kids to these parents, by julie malbogat thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar #transgender🏳️‍⚧️

Brian Roemmele (@brianroemmele) 's Twitter Profile Photo

After his wife had died three years before, he declined to change the battery of pacemaker preferring to let nature take its course. His last words were, "I'm going to be with Gloria now!"

After his wife had died three years before, he declined to change the battery of pacemaker preferring to let nature take its course. His last words were, "I'm going to be with Gloria now!"