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Fido Gets A Bone -Replacement

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Noise, Other

Fido Gets A Bone -Replacement
whiskey the dog uc davis


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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“Brain On Fire”, by Susannah Cahalan

Filed Under: Disease, Mind/Brain, Noise, Other

“Brain On Fire”, by Susannah Cahalan
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At first, I thought it was about madcap nootropic brain improvement experiments. But no,

Girl goes speaking-in-tongues crazy, House-like doctor tries arcane unconventional solution, girl saved from continued madness and impending death.

Sounds pretty good!…

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The Family Bishops At The American Academy of Pediatrics Toss Out A Few Jewels And Report Circumcision Healthier [If You Live In Africa]

Filed Under: Disease, Noise, Other, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

The Family Bishops At The American Academy of Pediatrics Toss Out A Few Jewels And Report Circumcision Healthier [If You Live In Africa]
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Internet all acock, debating the subject furiously. -Flogging it, really. Beating it to death.

Despite warring sides whacking each other about like bad cops roughing up the suspect, and the recommendations from each politically-motivated party; a few recommend waiting until 18, so at that point at least the adult decision would rest in one’s own hands…

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Eat Some Freedom Fries And Then Compare Your BMI With The Rest Of The World At BBC’s Global Fat Scale

Filed Under: Calculators, Exercise, Featured, Noise, Nutrition, Other, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Eat Some Freedom Fries And Then Compare Your BMI With The Rest Of The World At BBC’s Global Fat Scale
braveheart freedom battle mel gibson


Yeah, yeah, yeah; BMI is not the end-all be-all indicator for 100% of the population and you know some power-lifter who has a BMI of 80 but 4% bodyfat.

BUT CHECK IT OUT ANYWAY! -It’s fun. Compare your score to the averages of people from around the world and report back.

And Yes, the ‘Murica-Hating Brits made the one super-fattie included on their page, Michelle, an American. -Thanks ‘Beeb, thanks alot!…

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Badass-In-Training Brittany Wenger Hacks Breast-Cancer Diagnosis Into Something Better With Neural-Networks And Geek POWAH!

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease, Other, Signal

Badass-In-Training Brittany Wenger Hacks Breast-Cancer Diagnosis Into Something Better With Neural-Networks And Geek POWAH!
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+Oh, and also: She’s a 17-year-old high-school junior and winner of this year’s Google Science Fair Grand Prize.

As if that weren’t enough, BW tried out a bunch of commercially-available Neural Networks and decided they just weren’t accurate enough.

So, spurred-on by the difficulties one of her cousins was going through, she just picked up a programming textbook, taught herself Java and Built Her Own Damn Neural-Network…

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And Now At The $365.00 Pledge Level, RadioLab Utterly Demolishes Your Stiff Upper Lip With A [Love] Story About Wrong Turns And Being “Locked In”

Filed Under: Other, Signal

And Now At The $365.00 Pledge Level, RadioLab Utterly Demolishes Your Stiff Upper Lip With A [Love] Story About Wrong Turns And Being “Locked In”
hands candle grave love


And in-keeping with the recent theme of Mind/Brain, NPR,

And the inspirational invention of thought-to-text fMRI computer-brain-interface by Bettina Sorger and her team,

A [love] story that will absolutely destroy every single last gram of public composure you thought you had.

Better sneak off and find yourself a private spot where you can just bawl your eyes out and not be embarrassed…

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Bene-Gesserit Subvocalization ACTHUNG! Inappropriate, TMI Brain-Typing Probably Coming to MS Word 2032

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Mind/Brain, Other

Bene-Gesserit Subvocalization ACTHUNG! Inappropriate, TMI Brain-Typing Probably Coming to MS Word 2032
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Not JUST a 2-legged, 1-dimensional, walking plot device ala much of the ‘character dialogue’ in “Dune”,

Not JUST a way to better pretend your pornographer-teddy-bear has come to life,

Not JUST a way for Emma Stone to reveal her true feelings in a romantic comedy about the highschool crush she doesn’t have the guts to talk to;

Something much more serious…

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Cool Little TED-Ed Illustrated Video On How Painkillers Work

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Noise, Other, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Video

Cool Little TED-Ed Illustrated Video On How Painkillers Work


If you ever wondered how Aspirin or Ibuprofen do their thing to blunt the worst effects of your various relatives at the yearly family gatherings,

(ok) before you hit the Wild Turkey,

or just liked learning well-explained technical stuff from cutely-illustrated videos, this basic TED-Ed short is for you.

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