Doctors grow new ear on woman’s arm

As odd as it looked, Sherrie Walters certainly didn’t mind that she had a human ear growing on her forearm. That’s because once the body part was ready to be harvested, it would help to replace what cancer had took.

In 2008, after discovering an aggressive cancer in her ear, doctors had little choice but to surgically remove a large swatch of tissue from her face, including a large section of her ear. John Hopkins University reconstructive surgeon Dr. Patrick Byrne heard about Walters’ case and devised a procedure in which he would borrow cartilage from the rib area to stitch together a replacement ear. He decided to implant it beneath her forearm, where it can safely grow over a period of months.

Once it was ready, Byrne re-attached the ear and connective blood vessels. A second surgery was performed to improve the shape and add detail to the ear

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Taylor Mali on “What Teachers Make”

Taylor Mali (http://taylormali.com), one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the few people in the world to have no job other than that of poet., gives his mind on what teachers make. Mali is a vocal advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching, having himself spent nine years in the classroom teaching everything from English and history to math and S.A.T. test preparation.

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Wikipedia list of odd shit.

I didn’t know what else to name it.

You will now be reading this for weeks. You’re welcome internet.

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Pussy Riot: Dissent on Trial

“In February, four members of a feminist Russian punk-rock band named “Pussy Riot,” protesting against President Vladimir Putin’s government, walked into the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. They wore bright-colored balaclavas and performed a provocative song called “Punk Prayer,” with lyrics that called on the Virgin Mary to drive Putin away, and condemned the close relationship of the church and the Russian government. Shortly after, three of the women were arrested and detained for months as a 2,800-page indictment was compiled, accusing them of criminal hooliganism and religious hatred. On Friday, the three were convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment, after a trial widely condemned by outside observers as an attack on free speech. Gathered here are several images from the trial and the reactions of Pussy Riot supporters around the world.”

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the female punk band Pussy Riot, raises a fist before a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, on August 8, 2012.

Members of Pussy Riot staged several protests prior to the Cathedral incident in February. Here, the group protests at the so-called Lobnoye Mesto in Red Square in Moscow, on January 20, 2012. The eight activists, who were later detained by police, staged the performance to protest against the policies of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (Reuters/Denis Sinyakov)

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WHY GIRLS SHOULD NEVER HAVE ANAL SEX ➜

“So, I’m sitting in my friend’s West London living room, well into the bottle of cheap pinot grigio I dug out of her fridge, and already through with the couple of lines I had forgotten in my bag from an unnecessarily late night two weeks ago, and I’m supposed to write about why some people enjoy shoving a stick of meat up their poomaker. The truth is, I have no fucking idea.

Sure, once you’ve been on your first, or second, or third long-term relationship and have sweated over all those extravagant positions that are supposed to be delightful, over and over again, only to go back to settling for the same old missionary/girl-on-top/frombe routine, and he is whispering soft-spoken gibberish about how much he loves your bum… sure, in those circumstances, it sounds like the hottest thing in the world.

And you begin to consider it. You start by introducing it to whatever you think about when you’re horny and alone. And inevitably, whether those fantasies are more vanilla than the sex very boring animals have or involve rocket launchers aimed directly at your ass, the mere thought of anal is enough to make you cum like you’re about to die.

The next thing you’ll do is check out some porn, and then you’ll ask a sluttier/gay friend who’ll swear by it, and then you’re sold: Yes, anal really is NBD, just another frontier you need to cross with your partner on the long road to “becoming one.” There’s nothing better, your friends will say, than letting someone enter a part of your body only the bottom of your toilet bowl has seen.

But I beg to differ. Here’s why:

IT FEELS LIKE SHITTING BACKWARDS
Taking a long, hard-earned dump feels great, there’s no question about it. Now, take this wonderfully cathartic feeling, multiply it by a million and then turn it into a negative by attaching a big, bold minus sign (–) to the front of it.

No one’s ass is a Tardis. Your anal cavity is a finite space and you’re introducing more matter into it. Capacity at the butt party will very soon be reached and, tired of being knocked on constantly, your backdoor will break. Almost irreparably. Which brings me to point number two (hahaha).”

The Largest Ever 3D Map of the Universe….space, holy shit.

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Scientists plan to send these into space as a form of “proof of life”The Rosetta DiskLong Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project have created a miniature archive featuring all of the world languages laser etched onto a small disc that can fit in your hand:
The Rosetta Disk is intended to be a durable archive of human languages, as well as an aesthetic object that suggests a journey of the imagination across culture and history. We have attempted to create a unique physical artifact which evokes the great diversity of human experience as well as the incredible variety of symbolic systems we have constructed to understand and communicate that experience.The Disk surface shown here, meant to be a guide to the contents, is etched with a central image of the earth and a message written in eight major world languages: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” The text begins at eye-readable scale and spirals down to nano-scale. This tapered ring of languages is intended to maximize the number of people that will be able to read something immediately upon picking up the Disk, as well as implying the directions for using it—‘get a magnifier and there is more.’… The pages are microscopically etched and then electroformed in solid nickel, a process that raises the text very slightly - about 100 nanometers - off of the surface of the disk. Each page is only 400 microns across - about the width of 5 human hairs - and can be read through a microscope at 650X as clearly as you would from print in a book. Individual pages are visible at a much lower magnification of 100X. The outer ring of text reads “Languages of the World” in eight major world languages.

So everyone knows Snoop Dogg changed his name. Wow, crazy. If you really want to see something interesting about this whole deal and not just read news headlines, watch the trailer for the new documentary, in which Vice Magazine documented his transformation.

“VICE Films, in partnership with Snoopadelic Films, presents Reincarnated. The documentary follows Snoop Dogg as he journeys to Jamaica to record an album with Diplo. While there, Snoop finds himself embraced by the Jamaican people, is positively impacted by Rastafarian culture, and becomes reincarnated as Snoop Lion.”

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The fact that you can

basically kill yourself (assisted) in Switzerland by drinking a serum that makes you go into a deep sleep and then slowly kills you…blows my mind.

How is that legal?

With that said I feel like it should be legal everywhere. You can say people would get out of control but I feel like they wouldn’t. If it’s someone decision to such a thing and they feel they aren’t supposed to be alive anymore (severe depression, Alzheimer’s, Cancer, etc) then it should be ok for them to make a decision on their life I guess, right?

It’s just interesting to me.

Video HERE

It’s not graphic at all.

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discoverynews:

500 Million-Year-Old ‘Mistake’ Led to Humans
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Image: An amphioxus (also called a lancelet), which is a very distant cousin to humans and other vertebrates. It is the creature most similar to the original spineless organism that existed before a major genomic event occurred. Credit: Carol MacKintosh