Though the end to the government-shutdown is barely past a week old, count on the backlog of food inspections to last abit longer than the original 2+ week duration.
And to that end, you might want to reacquaint yourselves with BuzzFeed’s breakdown+list down at the links for some good reminders on how to stay safe abit longer.
PS: It might also be good to check back in with EWG’s Dirty Dozen, too…
The Enemy Of My Enemy Is Malaria, Because:Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock Syphilis Voldemort Polio
Ok, so Cracked ran this awesomely-gruesome post about 5 Strange Medical Therapies
-And the joys of bats**t-insanity, which also happens to cure Syphilis, because apparently Malaria is much the same as Omar from “The Wire”.
Well Look Out Omar! There’s a new strange-way-of-curing-disease player in-town. And his name?
Polio. -Yes, as in: “Oops, I am now almost totally paralyzed!” -That Polio.
SO: Our story begins with this one guy who got very very sick in an oddly-similar way…
Read More >Toast In The Machine?: Post Heart-Attack Brainwaves Surprise
They haven’t found the soul yet, but scientists have discovered a surprising surge of activity in the brains of near-death test animals.
-Still no word one way or another if Larry King is just one elaborately-syndicated “Weekend at Bernie’s” clockwork-android.
My vote? -Definitely!…
Read More >Spider-Cast, Spider-Cast, Does Whatever A Spider-Cast Does…
Ok, the pattern wasn’t taken Exactly from spiderwebs, but it’s damn close.
And if SpiderPig ever did ding a hoof, you know he’d wear something just like this.
As long as they can sort out the shock-absorption angle that looks as-yet missing, this looks like it might actually work, while also looking cool and being comfortable…
Read More >Klari Reis’ Petri Dish-Inspired Art Looks Beautiful And Biohazard-y
Ok, so technically it’s not quite as cool as color-tagged bacteria manipulated via lazors and EMFs to create a microbial generative art,
But check out Klari Reis’ culture-inspired petri dish art at the links anyway.
Pretty Neat!…
Read More >Bravo Dr. CatScan! Radiologist Replicates Rare Violin
By some happy accident, a professional radiologist happened to also be a violin player.
And for some odd reason, he had his instrument with him one night when he was called in to do a scan.
So after the patient was finished, he looked over at it and thought it might make an interesting subject also.
What he saw surpised him, especially since he’d been trained to notice very small changes in anatomy.
He noticed that the actual architecture of the instrument varied wildly from his previously-simplistic image of it.
By a Third happy accident…
Read More >Scientists Crack The Rosacea Code. Hint: It’s “Dune” On Your Face.
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Fido Gets A Bone -Replacement
Whiskey The Dog is a four-legged test-pilot for the future of skeletal biotech.
He’d gotten sick and needed some work on his jaw.
But rather than just go the standard route where things never quite return to normal, Drs. Huey, Arzi and Verstraete at UC Davis came up with a new experiment to try on Whiskey and 7 of his closest friends.
Using some titanium brackets, a hard-sponge-bone-scaffold and special proteins, they were able to fill in a full 2-inch-long gap in his jaw.
Within 3 months…
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