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Dotter wasn’t thinking of follow in effects and pushed blockages down to smaller arteries causing heart attacks

Forssmann stuck so many catheters up his veins they were all too scarred to use again. Dude was not right in the head even if he proved the point.

NIH used to be incomprehensibly small. Can scale up again.
“More than 600,000 Americans were dying of heart disease every year. In 1945, the budget for medical research at the National Institutes of Health was $180,000. Five years later, it was $46 million.”

A dead world shouldn’t have this much time.

Lillehei reportedly said, You don't venture into a wilderness expecting to find a paved road."

First heart-lung “machine” was actually dogs hooked up such that you stopped the heart of one and pumped blood from the other.
Holy fuck

“His echocardiogram showed vegetations—cheesy specks of infectious material—on both mitral leaflets, flapping around like flags in the wind. The bottom leaflet had been partially eaten away, leaving a gap through which blood was leaking back into the left atrium and farther back into the lungs, filling the air sacs with fluid, slowly drowning him.”

First heart surgeries, 1897!

Ready to forget the Islamic world of the 1200s and 1400s was very educated and worldly

Origins of a red heart shape

“Thus, the human heart became an obsession for me, in no small part because of my family history.”

Geography in the historical sense gets less and less important as the nationalist projects of countries as the book goes on. 3 out of 5 (from 3.5 out of 5 if he could just be less smug).

To say the cause of warming temperatures and shrinking ice in the arctic is is question is to reveal you are a political person first

Russians in Ukraine erased Arctic ocean presence

Mercantilism and colonialism mean no country wide infrastructure

“Nippon, or "sun origin": looking east there was nothing between them and the horizon, and each morning, rising on that horizon, was the sun.”

Good to gain that perspective that Afghanistan is the backyard and fallback position for Pakistan. Explains why they are so involved

“The routine expression of hatred for others is so common in the Arab world that it barely draws comment other than from the region's often Western-educated liberal minority” Author didn’t see this coming to USA.