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- New Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants from Any Donor
- Toddler Sings Bo Rhap
- 27 Totally Futuristic Concept Cars From The Wedge Era
- Cat Surfs on a Dog
- Benjamin Franklin and Daylight Saving Time
- DALI'S MECHANICAL ELEPHANTS - Surreal Land Striders
- How 6 Iconic Sounds of <i>Star Wars</i> Were Created
- The Lone Chef of Palmer Station
- Timelapse Video Reveals The Beauty Found In The Largest Cemetery In Paris
- Anime Gravestone
- Why the Wingdings Font Exists
- The Where's Waldo? Topless Beach Scene Scandal
- They Grow Up So Fast
- Giant Leech Swallowing a Worm Whole
| New Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants from Any Donor Posted: 13 Mar 2016 06:00 AM PDT
But that may change. According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers have found a way to change the immune system of a transplant patient so that it can accept any donor kidney. This treatment filters a patient's own antibodies out of his blood, then replaces it with different antibodies. Gina Kolata explains at the New York Times:
-via Debby Witt | Image: Holly Fischer  | ||||||||
| Posted: 13 Mar 2016 04:00 AM PDT Parents want to introduce their children to the music they love. But there’s a catch. A child may very well claim that music for her very own, as in the case of 2-year-old Millie. She’s singing “Bohemian Rhapsody” in the car. But she doesn’t want anyone else to sing! It’s her music now! Too bad, Mom and dad. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| 27 Totally Futuristic Concept Cars From The Wedge Era Posted: 13 Mar 2016 12:00 AM PST The Wedge era of automotive design began when car designers in the mid-20th century started creating futuristic and sporty designs that drew inspiration from science fiction and pop culture. According to Davey G. Johnson of Car and Driver the transition from the rounded and bulging curves of sports cars past to the sharp edged and totally spacy look of the future began in 1968 with the Alfa Romeo Carabo. Concept designs ranged from the hard edged "wedge" to the "one-box" design, which offered more interior space, but no matter which configuration they used Wedge era designers all created cars that looked totally futuristic. Whether you agree the Wedge look is still the cutting edge of cool or you see it as an outdated look remember this- without the Wedge era the DeLorean DMC-12 never would have been made, and the Back To The Future trilogy wouldn't have been the same without that far out time machine... See Doorstop Believin': 27 Incredible Concept Cars Of The Wedge Era here | ||||||||
| Posted: 12 Mar 2016 10:00 PM PST
Didga the cat, who is a superstar in the skateboarding world, now takes up another ride in this GoPro video. She climbs on the back of Ice, the dog in her family, and goes for a ride. Ice ferries her across the pool. Ice, don't be surprised if she scratches you while halfway across the pool. After all, it's her nature. -via Gifsboom | ||||||||
| Benjamin Franklin and Daylight Saving Time Posted: 12 Mar 2016 08:00 PM PST Tonight is the night we set our clocks forward one hour to go into Daylight Saving Time, at least in most of the U.S. The custom of Daylight Saving Time is by no means universal, and you’ll find people who are completely against it, and also people who think we should use it year-round. Benjamin Franklin is credited with the idea way back in 1784, but most believe he wasn’t at all serious about it. French ambassador Franklin flashed his legendary wit with a letter to the Journal of Paris in which he claimed to be astonished, upon being awakened at 6 a.m., to find that the sun was already up. He, and no doubt his readers, had never seen the sun before noon. (Related: "Daylight Saving Time: 7 Surprising Things You May Not Know.") While Franklin was poking fun at the French for sleeping in, he was also known for seeking out efficiency and conservation, so it may not have been entirely humor. It was a long road from that idea to what we have now. Along the way, there was a patchwork of problems, like keeping track of what time it was in each little town across America, and that time that the Soviet Union kept the wrong time for 61 years. Read those stories and more at National Geographic. -via The Verge | ||||||||
| DALI'S MECHANICAL ELEPHANTS - Surreal Land Striders Posted: 12 Mar 2016 06:00 PM PST DALI'S MECHANICAL ELEPHANTS | BLUE by GeekChic Tees The days when Dali drew and painted melting clocks or elephants with impossibly long limbs were days when the mastermind was dreaming of a galaxy far, far away and a war that took place a long, long time ago. Salvador Dali often painted his dreams and waking visions, but at what point does a vision become a true memory? Get all artsy with your geeky self, bring home this DALI'S MECHANICAL ELEPHANTS t-shirt by GeekChic Tees, and rewrite the pages of art history! Visit GeekChic Tees's Facebook fan page, official website, Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more fantastic designs:
Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama! | ||||||||
| How 6 Iconic Sounds of <i>Star Wars</i> Were Created Posted: 12 Mar 2016 06:00 PM PST When George Lucas began working on Star Wars, he approached Ben Burtt, a former classmate at the University of Southern California, for help. Burtt, a professional sound designer, knew how sound effects could subtly shape a story and make a fantasy universe seem real. Burtt developed the sounds of Star Wars that are now instantly recognizable, including that of the lightsaber, the TIE fighter engine, Darth Vader's breathing, blasters, and R2-D2's beeps and chirps. This task involved a surprising amount of work. For example, to prepare Chewbacca's voice, Burtt recorded several different animals at optimal times and then combined their intonations:
You can learn more about 6 iconic Star Wars sound effects at Popular Mechanics. -via Jonah Goldberg | ||||||||
| The Lone Chef of Palmer Station Posted: 12 Mar 2016 04:00 PM PST It’s been several years since Mike Hiller has seen a real summer. From November to April, he lives in Homer, Alaska. Then he travels to the opposite end of the earth to cook for the 18 or so scientists who overwinter at Palmer Station in Antarctica. Hiller is responsible for keeping the crew fed without driving them to mutiny.
But he manages to do it, six days a week all winter (they eat leftovers on his day off). Plus he puts on a special feast for the Winter Solstice, the most important meal in Antarctica. Read how he does it at Lucky Peach. -via Digg | ||||||||
| Timelapse Video Reveals The Beauty Found In The Largest Cemetery In Paris Posted: 12 Mar 2016 02:00 PM PST Père Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris and one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city, which is surprising considering all the life-affirming stuff you can do in the City of Love. But tourists don't just flock to Père Lachaise to visit Jim Morrison's tomb or touch the statue atop Victor Noir's grave in an inappropriate way- they go to see the beautiful statuary and celebrate life among a million dead. Photographer Mathieu Stern created the breathtaking timelapse video "Lifelapse" to tell "the story of life and death and what comes after told by the beautiful statues of the oldest cemetery of the french Capital." -Via Bangkok Post | ||||||||
| Posted: 12 Mar 2016 12:00 PM PST When your descendants relatives visit your final resting place for generations, they will find it among the other graves by the mark of your waifu. In this case, it's a veritable harem of waifu forming the cast of Love Live!, an enormously popular anime series about high school girls who form an idol singing group in order to save their school from being closed. Twitter user @t_hide is a stone engraver. He has recently turned his craft to inscribing Love Live! characters on stone and glass. He does incredibly precise work that will make an anime fan the envy of every other resident of a cemetery. You can see more photos of his work at Rocket News 24. | ||||||||
| Posted: 12 Mar 2016 10:00 AM PST You may have had some fun in your early days of computing playing with the Zapf Dingbats font. Type something, convert it, and voila! You have a “code” of sorts. Then the internet grew and you had better things to do with your computer. But dingbats are way older than the internet, and there was a real use for them. When typographers, engineers, and calligraphers got together to create computer fonts, there was still a purpose for dingbats, webdings, or wingdings. See, they aren’t a code for letters, but a language all their own. Read more about the history of the decorative fonts at Vox. -Thanks, Phil Edwards! | ||||||||
| The Where's Waldo? Topless Beach Scene Scandal Posted: 12 Mar 2016 08:00 AM PST You see a lot of different people doing lots of different things when you search for that bespectacled master of concealment in Where's Waldo? books, but the books are for kids so you don't expect to see nudity. But back in 1992 a detail oriented mother from Nashua, New Hampshire named Eileen Godfrey noticed to her horror that the Where's Waldo? puzzle she'd bought for her daughter Jessica contained the dreaded female nipple: Turns out the tiny nude was in Martin Hanford's classic book from the very beginning, and may have gone unnoticed because nude sunbathing is legal on UK beaches, so British publishers likely didn't see the tiny nipple as a problem. Guess we showed them! Read more about Waldo's Topless Beach Scandal at mental_floss | ||||||||
| Posted: 12 Mar 2016 07:00 AM PST
Being born into the right family has its perks. This is a picture of Deadpool talking to Sasha Obama, while her sister Malia gives a thumbs up in the background. Ryan Reynolds was a guest at the White House state dinner Thursday night in honor of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau. It was the Obama daughters’ first state dinner. They have grown up in their seven years in the White House. We tend to remember them as they appeared in 2008, at ages seven and ten.
And here they are Thursday night with Michele Obama, in front of the Trudeaus and the president.
You can see more photographs of the official Canadian state visit at Medium. | ||||||||
| Giant Leech Swallowing a Worm Whole Posted: 12 Mar 2016 06:00 AM PST Are you hungry? You sure will be after watching the preparation and consumption of this filling meal! The BBC program Wonders of the Monsoon showed a Giant Red Leech swallowing a blue worm longer than itself. That's right: the filmmakers estimate that the leech was 50 cm and the worm 70 cm long. The leech started at one end and started sucking down the worm like it was a thick strand of spaghetti. This incident took place at Mount Kinabalu on the island of Borneo. The filmmakers had to wait for weeks for the rains to get heavy enough to draw the reclusive leeches out into the open. But as you can see, the wait was worth the reward. Yummy! -via TYWKWIDBI |
About 100,000 people in the USA are currently waiting for kidney transplants. The right donor kidney has to come along for a transplant to work. About 50% of patients have a great deal of difficulty receiving a transplant and about 20% have such sensitive immune systems that finding a matching kidney is almost impossible.
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