Enough of serious stuff... I took a walk yesterday to exercise the non-brain parts of my body and stumbled upon the medical area. The building you see above is the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, one of the famous Harvard affiliated teaching hospitals. I found out that Insulin was first given to a New England patient there in 1922! Wow! I honestly didn't know that insulin had been around for so long.. there's still so much resistance to insulin injections now. I also realised that insulin was discovered for use at about the same time and out of the 4 guys who discovered it, one was a medical student :) 3 cheers for inquisitive and motivated medical students! From the picture on the right, you'll see that they've got a pretty little cafe with outdoor sitting as well. It's obvious why noone is sitting outdoors then.... Just in case you think that there's something wrong with my pictures, the floor is blue in colour. That's the salt they pour on the pavements to encourage snow to melt by decreasing the freezing point water (that sec school physics did come in useful after all). I'm sure they chose blue to reflect the persisting cold. Brrr...
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