Check out this assortment of ghouls and nasties, all working for the benefit of medicine. They’re medical training manikins (not mannequins, which you find in shop windows), and they range from creepy to out-and-out slasher film gory, to kinda SF cool (as in the example above). And while you’re at that site, you can vote [...]
If you have a thing about hypodermic needles and all that injection stuff, you’re going to love this. Researchers have developed a type of salmonella bacteria that, when dripped into the mouths of rodents, can trigger the mouse’s immune system without causing further harm. Why? Because it basically kills itself shortly upon arrival. Hopefully the [...]
I think the only thing cooler than seeing this 207-foot cruise ship grounded in practically zero water is seeing how freakishly well-balanced it is. How is that thing not tipping over?! What’s also unclear is just how it ended up beached. Right now it’s still unclear if human error or mechanical malfunction is to blame.
That’s Kent Couch there in the picture, pretty typical 48-year-old gas station owner, relaxing in his pretty typical lawn chair, about to embark on an absolutely non-typical midlife crisis adventure. Last week, Couch completed a 200-mile flight (you read right, flight. All those balloons weren’t for decorative purposes only) across the Oregon desert. He flew [...]
When Gaye Hurst opened the box of an oxygen generator she’d purchased to use for glass blowing, she thought that two of hoses inside the box looked strange. Upon closer inspection, it turned out they weren’t hoses at all but a couple of rat snakes! The company that sold her the oxygen generator, Unlimited Oxygen, [...]
The Time Magazine website’s just posted up a supercool slideshow about meteorites and the damage they’ve caused on earth. Some pretty awesome pictures there, but the real fascination comes from the strong reminder the photos present that when it comes to cataclysmic meteor strikes on earth, it’s not a question of “if” but “when”. Check [...]
Australia’s Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, is due for a break. But his choice of vacation spot has opposition politicians going batty… wom-batty. Henry plans to spend five weeks deep in a Queensland forest, out of cell phone range, caring for a colony of hairy-nosed wombats. Hairy-nosed wombats, unlike common wombats, are an endangered species. The [...]