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Why Science is Awesome!
Jul. 21st, 2017 02:08 pmSo there is an article in this week's Economist - Youthful Spirits. It's primarily about how "...the blood of young animals... may be able to ameliorate at least some of the effects of ageing..." which, yeah okay, that's a pretty big MAY there, guys. But the best part of the article (after the line, No jokes about vampires, please) is a description of parabiosis experiments carried out by a dentist named Kamrin in the 1950s. Essentially, he cut a small bit of skin from each of two rats, then sutured them together at the site of the wounds. He discovered that in a matter of weeks the animals' blood vessels began to merge, and the animals essentially ended up sharing a circulatory system. All well and good, but (1) the point of these experiments was to prove that sugar causes tooth decay (no, really, this was the best experimental design he could come up with to prove that) and (2) the revelation that the technique was "...kind of gross and crude..." and that the rats "...unsurprisingly, were not always keen on the procedure."
Rats had an opinion on being sewn to other rats? Yeah, go fig.
And scientists wonder why people have trouble trusting them.
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In happier news, Sean Spicer resigned. (Apparently over a matter of principle - no, really) Who had Friday, July 22 2017 before 12 noon in the pool??
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Who writes these headlines?
Minnesota Girl Has Surgery after Being Bitten Severely in the Lake.
Which part of her is the lake??
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Cinvidiosa sent this my way : Puritan Names.
She's going to be Job-Raked-Out-of-The-Ashes Invidiosa from now on and I am going to be Search-the-Scriptures Wilde.
How about you?
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Maybe need Puritan Names For A New Age.
I propose:
Eschew-Facebook Smith
Flee-Snapchat Jones
Erase-Those-Nude-Selfies Lee
Embrace-Mass-Transit Bexington-Smythe
Climate-Change-Is-a-Real-Thing Fumble-Dunce (of the Newquay Fumble-Dunces, natch)
Flash-Flood-of-Mosquitoes Wonderhourse
Any ideas?
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Rats had an opinion on being sewn to other rats? Yeah, go fig.
And scientists wonder why people have trouble trusting them.
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In happier news, Sean Spicer resigned. (Apparently over a matter of principle - no, really) Who had Friday, July 22 2017 before 12 noon in the pool??
-----------------------------------------------------
Who writes these headlines?
Minnesota Girl Has Surgery after Being Bitten Severely in the Lake.
Which part of her is the lake??
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Cinvidiosa sent this my way : Puritan Names.
She's going to be Job-Raked-Out-of-The-Ashes Invidiosa from now on and I am going to be Search-the-Scriptures Wilde.
How about you?
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Maybe need Puritan Names For A New Age.
I propose:
Eschew-Facebook Smith
Flee-Snapchat Jones
Erase-Those-Nude-Selfies Lee
Embrace-Mass-Transit Bexington-Smythe
Climate-Change-Is-a-Real-Thing Fumble-Dunce (of the Newquay Fumble-Dunces, natch)
Flash-Flood-of-Mosquitoes Wonderhourse
Any ideas?
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I made a thing. Feel free to tell me how unspeakably awesome it is:
