And what about you? When was the last time you did something for the first time? - Eastpak. Your Daily Life in GIFs (28 GIFs. Here’s a bunch of those little everyday moments put into GIF form… When someone says, “Think fast!” When you’re wearing socks and step in something wet: When your parents don’t like what you’re wearing: When you take pics with your best friend: When you pass by school or work on the weekend: When someone you just met wants a hug: When you try to wink seductively: When you smell food cooking in the kitchen: Bullshit detection tool.
Japan team claims they created functional human liver from stem cells: report A team of scientists claim they transplanted induced pluripotent stem… Japanese researchers have created a functioning human liver from stemcells, a report said Friday, raising hopes for the manufacture of artificial organs for those in need of transplants.
A team of scientists transplanted induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into the body of a mouse, where it grew into a small, but working, human liver, the Yomiuri Shimbun said. Stemcells are frequently harvested from embryos, which are then discarded, a practice some people find morally objectionable. But iPS cells -- which have the potential to develop into any body tissue -- can be taken from adults. A team led by professor Hideki Taniguchi at Yokohama City University developed human iPS cells into "precursor cells", which they then transplanted into a mouse's head to take advantage of increased blood flow. Two separate teams, one from the United States and one from Japan, discovered iPS cells in 2006. 'Vocal Fry' Is the Hot New Linguistic Fad Among Women. I am an old, grouchy woman who does voiceovers for a living.
So I am more conscious of sound and inflection than most people, I suppose. The way young women you reference talk makes me nuts. Not just because it sounds affected, but because in my eyes it infantalizes the girls in question. The Phone Stack. We usually take a pretty hard line against phones at dinner, but a new trick just popped up that gives us hope for the future.
It’s called a phone stack, and it’s a buzzing, flashing reminder of every phone-etiquette rule the world seems to have forgotten. It works like this: as you arrive, each person places their phone facedown in the center of the table. (If you’re feeling theatrical, you can go for a stack like this one, but it’s not required.) As the meal goes on, you’ll hear various texts and emails arriving… and you’ll do absolutely nothing. LSD Inventor's Remarkable Letter to Steve Jobs. When Apple’s late guru, Steve Jobs, said in 2005 that "doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life," he caught the attention of another guru and inventor who lived 6,000 miles away in Switzerland.
Albert Hofmann was a scientist working for Sandoz chemicals in Basel in 1938 when he first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide, AKA LSD. That same year, he also became the first person to ingest acid and experience its peculiar psychedelic effects. In 2007, Rick Doblin, director of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in Santa Cruz, called Hofmann—who had just celebrated his 101st birthday—and told him that Jobs was a fan of the drug. So Hofmann sent a personal handwritten note, from one revolutionary inventor to another, wondering if the Apple founder might want to support a new study of "LSD-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with life-threatening illness.
" The Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules For Living. May 6, 2011 | 42 Comments » | Topics: Life, List At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. Since word travels slowly in the digital age these have only just reached me. Here they are. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. Via OwenKelly Hot Stories From Around The Web Other Awesome Stories.