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- Horse-Drawn Heated School Bus in Northern Maine
- Magnetic Helmet Shrinks A Deadly Tumor
- What Do We Do With Grass Clippings?
- Little Known Facts About The Artist Who Used Gold In His Paintings
- The Most Expensive Food In The World
- Ancient Roman Parties
- What's the Hardest Olympic Sport?
| Horse-Drawn Heated School Bus in Northern Maine Posted: 28 Jul 2021 03:22 PM PDT
The kids have to get to school, even when it's winter in northern Maine. Here's a school bus that, according to the Facebook group Crown of Maine, had benches and a woodstove inside. Redditor notbob1959 identifies the location as Main Street in the town of Presque Isle. Here's a modern Google Street View of the same location. -via Book of Joe  |
| Magnetic Helmet Shrinks A Deadly Tumor Posted: 28 Jul 2021 02:51 PM PDT
We've gone further than using helmets to spot brain tumors; we can now crush them. Okay, maybe that wording is too harsh and somewhat inaccurate, but a helmet that can actually treat tumors is real. Researchers have created a helmet that generates a magnetic field to shrink a deadly tumor by a third. The invention, as part of the latest breakthrough, was used to treat a 53-year-old patient: The 53-year-old patient who underwent the treatment ultimately died due to an unrelated injury, but an autopsy of his brain showed that the procedure had removed 31% of the tumor mass in a short time. The test marked the first noninvasive therapy for a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma. The helmet features three rotating magnets connected to a microprocessor-based electronic controller operated by a rechargeable battery. As part of the therapy, the patient wore the device for five weeks at a clinic and then at home with the help of his wife. The resulting magnetic field therapy created by the helmet was administered for two hours initially and then ramped up to a maximum of six hours per day. During the period, the patient's tumor mass and volume shrunk by nearly a third, with shrinkage appearing to correlate with the treatment dose. The inventors of the device — which received Food and Drug Administration approval for compassionate use treatment — claim it could one day help treat brain cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. Image credit: Houston Methodist Neurological Institute |
| What Do We Do With Grass Clippings? Posted: 28 Jul 2021 02:51 PM PDT
Listen, it's easy to deal with grass clippings after a good mowing session if you throw them in the trash. Sure, that's convenient and straightforward, but did you know that these clippings can be utilized to do multiple things for your yard or garden? Mark Wolfe lists different methods and uses for leftover grass clippings. From using them as free fertilizer to compost to garden beds-- we have a lot of options to choose from! Check the full piece here.
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| Little Known Facts About The Artist Who Used Gold In His Paintings Posted: 28 Jul 2021 02:51 PM PDT
Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was popular for his symbolism and usage of actual gold leaf in his paintings. His work featured a lot of historical significance, and centered largely around women. Klimt is also considered one of the best decorative painters of the 20th century, as the Collector details: Klimt was born in Austria-Hungary in a town called Baumgarten near Vienna. His father, Ernst was a gold engraver and his mother, Anna dreamed of becoming a musical performer. Klimt's two other brothers also showed great artistic talent, one of which became a gold engraver like their father. For a while, Klimt even worked with his brother in an artistic capacity and they did a lot together in terms of adding value to the Vienna artistic community. It's interesting that Klimt's father worked with gold as gold became an important facet of Klimt's career. He even had a "Golden Period." To learn more about Klimt, check out the full piece here! Image credit: wikimedia commons |
| The Most Expensive Food In The World Posted: 28 Jul 2021 02:50 PM PDT
Don't think about the gold-infused recipes served in New York, because this list features none of those dishes. Here's a spoiler alert: you've probably seen or eaten some of these. While I can't live like a rich heiress, I certainly can look up the extravagant practices and luxuries employed by the rich. The Internet, afterall, is a huge well of varying information! Luxury Columnist lists their top twelve most expensive food items here! Image credit: wikimedia commons |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2021 02:50 PM PDT
Have you ever wondered how people in the past threw parties? A good example to look at would be ancient Romans. Well, while their partying methods are completely different, they were known for their excessive feasts and parties. The Roman elite preferred to hold private dinner parties in their homes rather than big, open, public parties. A type of Roman dinner party called convivium was usually held in residences with a small group of friends, family, and business associates. Don't underestimate the small number of guests, though, because conviviums were designed to be extravagant and expensive: [...]The most common reception room for such parties was the dining area, which in Roman homes were known as the triclinium, or "three-couch room," because dining was typically done while reclining on couches, which were arranged in a U-shape with a table in the middle in order to facilitate sharing and conversation. As these entertaining spaces were meant to be a delight to the senses, an upper-class triclinium would often have many decorative elements such as floor mosaics, sculptures or other pieces of art, and fancy furniture. While the Greeks were known to enjoy drinking parties known as symposia (the one at which Socrates and friends discussed the true nature of love being the most famous one), Roman dinner parties were different in a number of ways. The chief difference is that women were allowed to attend Roman parties, providing that they were of the appropriate class. At Greek symposia, the only women allowed were entertainers, musicians, or sex workers known as hetairai. If you were Roman, at least your wife could be there. Image credit: wikimedia commons |
| What's the Hardest Olympic Sport? Posted: 28 Jul 2021 06:02 AM PDT The Tokyo Olympics has 33 different sports, most with many events within the sport. Which one is the hardest? That's an impossible question, as you will have various opinions on what makes a sport "hard." How can one compare the difficulty of withstanding hits to the face (boxing) to split-second timing (gymnastics) to incredible endurance (marathon) to juggling a variety of skills (water polo or decathlon)? It's an impossible question, but Gizmodo asked six sports experts with multidisciplinary practices, and got a variety of answers. Professor of Instruction in Sport Matt Bowers determined his answer by the process of elimination.
There's much more to Bowers' elimination scheme on the way to an answer, which differs from the other five experts. Read all of them at Gizmodo. TL;DR: The difficulty or defining difficulty. |
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