Ian Thomas

2 weeks ago | nbcmiami.com | Ian Thomas

Seven in 10 Americans say they feel powerless to act during a cardiac emergency, according to data from the American Heart Association, and 90% of nearly 350,000 instances of cardiac arrests each year outside of a hospital are fatal. Workplaces are a prime example of this risk: each year more than 10,000 people suffer from cardiac arrests at on the job, and a new deal between AHA and payroll giant ADP aims to better prepare companies for live-saving emergency medical interventions.

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Ian Thomas

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. Years ago, I found myself in a surreal confrontation with a red-faced senior executive who was angrily waving an iPod in my face. Why, he demanded, was I telling him we needed to spend tens of thousands of pounds on additional storage when his iPod only cost a couple of hundred?

1 month ago | tcj.com | Ian Thomas

I have revisited Kent Worcester's A Cultural History of the Punisher many times since my review of the book was published early last year. The invitingly legible format he employed in assembling his end-to-end history of the controversial character lends itself to perusal, but, over and over, that casual interaction segues into a close read. As with all of my favorite criticism, A Cultural History of the Punisher prompts me to engage with the source material directly.

2 months ago | missoulian.com | Ian Thomas

Rising north of Butte, east of Deer Lodge, south of Highway 12 between Helena and Garrison Junction, and west of the Jefferson City-Clancy area and the Boulder River Valley, the Boulder Mountains are one of the most historically significant range in the state of Montana owing to its mining history. These mostly forest-covered mountains hold a unique geologic structure, the Boulder Batholith. A batholith is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock that made its way to the surface.

Jan 30, 2025 | infoq.com | Ian Thomas

Transcript Thomas: I'm going to talk about the potential of VR in the context of what we're building at Meta. First, though, given this is the emerging trends in frontend, let's go back 15 years to 2009. Some remarkable things happened that year, some less remarkable things. I'm wondering, does anybody remember this at all? This was the coolest thing I'd ever seen at the time. If I play this video, hopefully it will give you a demonstration of how that worked.