More random links

Normally I try to split up these posts a little more, but here's a second consecutive post of this sort. Looks of such links kicking around:

Patients should be able to tell surgeon 'You're too tired to operate on me': Editorial

According to an editorial about to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine "Studies have found a near doubling in the risk of complications, such as massive hemorrhage or organ injury when surgeons pick up a scalpel after a night on call if they got fewer than six hours of sleep."

Oil spill clarifies road map for sea turtle recovery

Looks like they've discovered that in the area of the BP oil spill it wasn't so much oil harming the local turtle population as it was fishing activity.

Ceiling lights in Minn. send coded Internet data

A new approach to wireless internet: "Flickering ceiling lights are usually a nuisance, but in city offices in St. Cloud, they will actually be a pathway to the Internet. The lights will transmit data to specially equipped computers on desks below by flickering faster than the eye can see." Basically it's fibre-optics minus the fibre, but here this seems to be getting addressed in a non-directional fashion.

‘Daddy, Read for Me’

A somewhat surreal look at a program attempting to get fathers in jail to record themselves reading to their kids... "These days, Mr. Rosado is reading 'Fox in Socks' and 'Hop on Pop' and 'Clifford y la Hora del Baño.' Juan Camacho, 35, a drug dealer and father of two, is partial to 'The Cat in the Hat' (though he says he did not like the movie as much because 'it doesn’t have the same rhyming, the classic of it'). And Qaaid Reddick, 27, who has never met his third daughter because she was born while he was behind bars on a weapons charge, is paging through 'Merry Christmas, Curious George.'"