The International Society on Oxygen Transport

Punk rock started in the 1970's as a jarring, irregular rebellion opposed to mainstream popular culture music. Rock ensambles alike Sex Pistols, the Offspring, and Pere Ubu boosted punk back in 1990. This time the weave of rapid, simple as soap rock with melodic popular melodies stayed on the TV. These days, soi-disant punk pop is a key element in the sphere of mainstream pop music. These ten albums are the best place to start from to get to know pop punk.

1. blink-182 - Enema of the State

In blink-182's never-ending struggle to diminish any grown ups in the vicinity, this record album featured a lady dressed as an enema governess on the booklet. The music on the record is youthful and catchy including the monumental hit song “Mutt.”

2. The Donnas - Spend the Night

Girls perform punk, too, and this disc is a profuse proof of the fact. The group modeled themselves after the first punk rock group Ramones in NY with each singer taking the name Donna. Download Paramore to listen to it.

3. Good Charlotte - Young and the Hopeless

A band from Waldorf, Maryland Good Charlotte got into the top 10 of the pop album chart with this set. It's filled with tales of college and problem fathers. The big hit track is “Girls & Boys.”

4. Green Day - American Idiot

After declining from their 90's fleeting surge of popularity, Green Day retreated from live performances to mix punk rock's first rock opera. Although the popular band was anxious about their fanclub's attitude to Jesus of Suburbia, it turned out to be a UK rock classic topping the charts and gaining a Grammy award for Best Rock Album of 2004.

5. The Lemonheads - Ceiling Fan in My Spoon

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The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue is an interdisciplinary society comprising about 250 members worldwide. Its purpose is to further the understanding of all aspects of the processes involved in the transport of oxygen from the air to its ultimate consumption in the cells of the various organs of the body.

The annual meeting brings together scientists, engineers, clinicians and mathematicians in a unique international forum for the exchange of information and knowledge, the updating of participants on latest developments and techniques, and the discussion of controversial issues within the field of oxygen transport to tissue.

Founded in 1973, the society has been the leading platform for the presentation of many of the technological and conceptual developments within the field both at the meetings themselves and in the proceedings of the society. These are currently published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers in its Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology series.

Examples of areas in which members have made highly significant contributions include electrode techniques, spectrophotometric methods, mathematical modeling of oxygen transport, the understanding of local regulation of oxygen supply to tissue and fluorocarbons/blood substitutes.