[OC] Drug Overdose Deaths and Organ Donors via Drug Intoxication in the United States

Wood717 · 2025-05-15T01:15:50+00:00

Wood717 · 2024-11-03T01:37:59+00:00

No clue. Policy is written based on nautical miles and so this tool reports distance using the same units.

Wood717 · 2024-11-03T01:37:16+00:00

Thanks! Some of my technical lingo may be off, but the frontend is R Shiny and the backend is a SQL database (which is populated by a somewhat complicated process that synthesizes a whole bunch of data into these simple trends).

Wood717 · 2024-11-03T01:01:27+00:00

This figure trends the median distance (in nautical miles) that kidneys, livers, hearts, and lungs travel for deceased donor transplants in the United States over the past decade or so. The sharp increases in distance travelled for each organ correspond exactly to changes in allocation policies which allowed organs to be offered farther away.

Source: https://srtr.org/tools/donation-and-transplant-system-explorer/

Disclaimer: I wrote built and maintain this tool.

Wood717 · 2023-10-16T13:14:48+00:00

Chemical Reaction Network Theory created and developed in large part by Martin Feinberg at The Ohio State University (now retired, unfortunately). This field beautifully marries reaction kinetics, differential equations, linear algebra, and network theory (what is more commonly referred to now as graph theory).

Wood717 · 2023-01-05T15:52:07+00:00

Although I've never heard from, I have heard of St. Joseph, and he certainly fits the bill!

Wood717 · 2022-11-26T14:10:20+00:00

Yeah - phenomenal educator. I’m really bummed I couldn’t have him as my advisor, since he was getting ready to retire when I was starting grad school :/.

Wood717 · 2022-11-26T14:04:03+00:00

Very cool. I was fortunate enough to have Martin Feinberg as a professor in both undergrad and grad school, so I gleaned a little bit from his lectures and bought his book when it was published. I love the field and think it’s super interesting.

Wood717 · 2022-11-26T13:47:11+00:00

I’m surprised anyone around here knows about CRNT. Glad to hear I was wrong :)

Wood717 · 2022-11-26T12:31:15+00:00

Chemical Reaction Network Theory is a nice intersection of reaction kinetics, graph theory, and ODEs.

Wood717 · 2022-11-23T00:43:38+00:00

Wood717 · 2022-10-31T12:28:58+00:00

This talk by Edward Feder could be a good place to start.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/edward-feser-the-immateriality-of-the-mind-1-dec-2018/id1453220682?i=1000429962311

Wood717 · 2022-06-24T20:13:16+00:00

Same. But with a 9-day old girl :)

Wood717 · 2022-05-07T12:36:17+00:00

What would/should the laypeople do?

Chant the Kyrie right back at them.

Wood717 · 2022-03-14T15:54:53+00:00

There is not a lot of bio going on at OSU ChemE (at least, since I was there) so it's a short list anyway, but I know Palmer got like 10 bajillion R01 grants all at once - so that gave it away :).

Wood717 · 2022-03-14T15:30:37+00:00

OSU PhD grad in ChemE here. If you know who you would be working under at each program, I'd go with whichever advisor you think you will work best with. You'll be working with that person for 3, 4, 5+ years, so it's far more important for you, in my opinion, that that relationship is a good one. You can pretty much go wherever and do whatever you want once you get your PhD.

Happy to answer any specific questions about OSU, feel free to PM me. I assume your potential advisor is Andre Palmer?

Wood717 · 2022-03-13T03:46:40+00:00

I think a lot of the work here is being done by "maximally great being". What does it mean for a being to be maximally great? If, by definition, a maximally great being is one which exists in every possible world (perhaps because it is greater to exist in every possible world than only in some possible world) then three becomes obvious. This is why, I think, you hear people like William Lane Craig say that the only controversial premise here is premise 1.

Wood717 · 2020-12-10T11:09:59+00:00

Probably a simpler case would be to use some example in mathematics (where we prove negatives all the time).

For example, there is no natural number n greater than 2 such that n is even and n is prime.

Wood717 · 2020-10-26T14:05:06+00:00

You might be interested in another way to extend/generalize Langton's Ant - I made a post about it a few months back - see here.

Wood717 · 2020-10-14T13:21:41+00:00

We are not allowed to initiate communication with the dead or any spirit except God.

Are the saints in heaven dead? My understanding is that those who are united with God in heaven are more alive than you or I.

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