Award from the Vedere La Scienza Film Festival in Milan!

We are very excited to win the Video for Web Award at the Vedere La Scienza Film Festival!
Milan's longrunning Science Film Festival open its doors tomorrow with films from all over the world about biodiversity, astrophysics and cosmology, life sciences, natural sciences, chemistry, environment and climate, history of science and many more.
If you are around - check it out!

FREE FOOTAGE FROM THE PRELINGER ARCHIVES - Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940)

We used 1940 film footage from the controversial cult film "Experiments in the Revival of Organisms", showing experiments performed by Soviet scientists reviving the lungs, heart, and even the head of dogs. It's in the public domain – one can find (and use!) this and thousands of other treasures in the wonderful Prelinger Archives. Thanks Rick!

DANISH STUDY SHOWS POSITIVE EFFECT OF SMALL 'HEART ATTACK'

Cutting off the blood flow to the arm by repeatedly inflating a blood pressure cuff appears to reduce the amount of tissue damaged during a heart attack, a new Danish study shows.

In a study of 142 patients being rushed to a hospital for treatment of severe heart attacks, the amount of heart tissue saved for those who got the treatment, called induced ischemia, was 30 percent greater than for those who didn't, according to a report in the Feb. 27 issue of The Lancet.

"For patients being transported to the hospital for acute myocardial infarction [heart attack], we inflated the blood pressure cuff for five minutes, relaxed it and repeated it four times," said study author Dr. Hans Erik Botker, a professor of cardiology at Aarhus University Hospital in Skejby.

• Read more at Cutting Off Blood Flow Limits Damage During Heart Attack by HealthDay reporter Ed Edelson
• Read the Lancet article from Feb 27, 2010 here
• BBC reports Stopping arm blood 'saves heart'