Archive for August, 2008
August 31, 2008 at 4:14 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
15-year-old Tom Lemm underwent surgery to remove his arm and shoulder due to a tumor. Surgeons then used bone and tissue from the amputated elbow to construct a new shoulder!
Professor Kay told the BBC: “The most awful thing for an upper limb reconstructive surgeon to do is to remove an arm - it’s a dreadful thing to do.
“But by using the bits that would be discarded, you can pluck a little bit of comfort.”
He said Tom’s new shoulder will be able to support an artificial limb. “This will be a tremendous advantage.”
Tom has battled cancer for three years. He hopes the success of his surgery will give hope to others. A hospital spokesman said this surgery was first performed in Japan, but Lemm’s case was a first for Europe. Link -via Arbroath
Original post by Miss Cellania
August 31, 2008 at 4:11 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
In the game Hexium Connect, you are given a set of hexagons with colored links on one or more sides of each. You rearrange them so that all colored connections are linked to each other properly. It starts easy, but quickly becomes challenging! Link -via Dump Trumpet
Original post by Miss Cellania
August 31, 2008 at 4:10 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
An 11-month-old baby in Colombia weighs over 61 pounds! The child can no longer wear his big brother’s clothing. His mother, Milena Orosco de Agudelo, said the boy was born at a normal size and began growing rapidly at two months of age. Medical tests indicate he has an endocrine disorder, but further tests are needed to pinpoint the cause. Link (with video) -via Fark
Original post by Miss Cellania
August 31, 2008 at 4:07 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Pets are simply lovable. And felines are one of my favorite kinds of pets. Bouncy, hyperactive, overly-pampered, persistent and yes, very cute living fur-ball that has an endless act of vanity.
To be a cat burglar, you need a good and loud runaway car driver.
The case of a over-soft sofa.
Bruce Lee’s protégé??
A cat and a great imagination.
A new level of swimming.
And a new level of biking.
Thank you for entertaining us!
Nevertheless, if you love cats, you won’t be able to resist their adorable charms and putting your heart out to endure their meows and purrs for attention, ESPECIALLY when they are hungry.
We also have here, two simple animations with a combination of warmth, cuteness and humor. Enjoy!
Caution: These animations are addictive and will give the audience the urge to replay it.
Simon Kitty - Wake up
Simon Kitty - Open door
Original post by Pamela
August 31, 2008 at 3:13 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Maybe it says “In God We Trust” on our currency, but it’s a financially risky strategy, as the “Christian-centered” Georgia-based Integrity Bank discovered as it came apart at the seams last week:
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Original post by revere none@example.com
August 31, 2008 at 7:43 am · Filed under Uncategorized
One of the major events in the history of science was the foundation of a number of published communications, so that the results of observation and research could be relatively quickly shared amongst scholars, and one of the first of these was the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, which institution was founded in part by my illustrious namesake, Bp John Wilkins.
Although the actual publications are online only in JStor, to which a subscription is required, the Philosophical Transactions were republished by the Royal Society in the early 1800s, and they are online via the inestimable Internet Archive. So, at the prompting of a correspondent, Jeb McLeish, I have been downloading and reading some of the very early pieces on species. Remember, the term species was not specially defined for biology (or, as then called, natural history, which also included geology) until 1686 by John Ray, so it [...]
Original post by John S. Wilkins none@example.com
August 31, 2008 at 6:38 am · Filed under Uncategorized
The Five Hoaxes That Fooled the World post from a couple of weeks ago was pretty popular and lots of people had interesting suggestions for a follow up, so I thought I would do just that. Here are six more for your reading pleasure.
The Cardiff Giant, 1869.
Original post by StacyBee
August 31, 2008 at 12:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized
In November, 2007, a small group of six citizens - two screenwriters, a physicist, a philosopher, and Chris and I - began working to restore science and innovation to America’s political dialogue in an initiative called ScienceDebate2008. Within weeks, more than 38,000 scientists, engineers, and other concerned Americans signed on, including nearly every major American science organization, dozens of Nobel laureates, elected officials and business leaders, and the presidents of over 100 major American universities. Signers submitted over 3,400 questions and we worked with the leading organizations involved to craft the top 14 questions the candidates should answer.
Barack Obama is the first to step up to our challenge and John McCain has said he will answer as well.
The Senator from Illinois has responded comprehensively providing a glimpse into what an Obama-Biden administration would look like. Read his first answer below and all fourteen [...]
Original post by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum none@example.com
August 30, 2008 at 11:07 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Rich Fasi was boating in West Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan near Traverse City, Michigan on Wednesday. He saw some tangled fishing equipment floating by and started pulling it from the water:
“I could see a fish down there about three feet down, but the last thing I expected was a shark on the end,” Fasi said.
There aren’t any witnesses, but Fasi, of Traverse City, said he pulled the roughly 2-foot shark from the bay about 100 yards west of Clinch Park Marina at about 5 p.m. He found the shark in about 25 feet of water, he said. It was dead, but wasn’t frozen.
“I could wiggle its tail, pry open its mouth, look at its teeth,” he said. “It didn’t look like it had any decomposition.”
Fasi threw the fish in his freezer and called the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
It appears that Fasi’s catch was a blacktip shark.
Michigan Department [...]
Original post by Adam Stanhope
August 30, 2008 at 10:29 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson isn’t just everybody’s “friend.” He is also a 1980s teenage “WarGames” style computer hacker!
TechCrunch:
In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it. He was never arrested because he was a minor, but the FBI confiscated all of his computer equipment and some newspaper accounts of the incident stated incorrectly (see image below from a 1986 LA Times story) that he was “convicted in federal court of computer hacking and placed on probation†(the statements were corrected in subsequent articles). Anderson used the hacker name “Lord Flathead.â€
What a great story - Matthew Broderick, eat your heart out! [TechCrunch]
Original post by Adam Stanhope
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