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Mete · **Joined:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:54 pm **Posts:** 12656

YCobb wrote:

They weren't stolen, they jumped ship.

Have you got the links for all these? I'm interested in seeing a few of them a bit closer.

Of course, somehow I forgot.

Henrietta Lacks: http://bit.ly/14FPsvy
Orangutan: http://bit.ly/14lsHWY
Carcinogenic plants: http://bit.ly/16JoqS7
Dolphins: http://bit.ly/11X9qye
Autism: http://bit.ly/161JfXY
Exoplanet: http://bit.ly/16EiQhZ
Laboratory hamburger: http://bit.ly/1cqMXAo
Malaria vaccine: http://bit.ly/1cqHjy5

Terraem · **Posted:** Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:26 am

Relevant:

The Willow Witch · **Posted:** Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:00 pm

Madican · **Joined:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:18 pm **Posts:** 13531

So I can prevent cancer by putting myself at risk for cancer.

Methinks redheads get the short end of that stick.

Dedivax · **Posted:** Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:46 am

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The future of engineering is bodaciously in good hands

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

I don't know what you attempted there but it doesn't work.

Tetrunes · **Posted:** Sat Sep 07, 2013 10:56 am

Stranaton · **Posted:** Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:56 pm

Need Runes4 wrote:

augh I hate these things. they still made the models with a keyboard and mouse, the gestures thing is only to impress investors

Tammerath · **Posted:** Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:27 pm

http://gizmodo.com/worlds-first-fully-bionic-mind-controlled-leg-goes-fo-1401152071

The cyborgs are coming

Exeres · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:26 pm

This is a picture of a brain.

You might notice something strange about that brain. It has no ridges or folds like a normal human brain. The guy it belonged to was a patient in a Texas mental facility decades ago who died in 1970. The patient's data was lost, but according to the jar that contained the brain, he had agyria, or [/i]lissencephaly[/i], two terms describing the same thing - a smooth brain. Diagnosed patients usually die by the age of 10, and suffer from seizures, muscle spasms, and learning disabilities.

Terraem · **Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 7:06 am

But why is it that freaky smooth?

Winchester · **Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:41 am

Wikipedia wrote:

Causes of lissencephaly can include viral infections of the uterus or the fetus during the first trimester,[7] or insufficient blood supply to the fetal brain early in pregnancy. There are also a number of genetic causes of lissencephaly, including mutation of the reelin gene (on chromosome 7),[8] as well as other genes on the X chromosome and on chromosome 17. Genetic counseling is usually offered if there is a risk of lissencephaly, coupled with genetic testing.

I remember hearing about this before years ago, although I didn't know that people who have it die so young.

Kamak · **Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:22 pm

It almost looks like a chicken filet.

I knew there were disorders that made the brain less wrinkled, but I didn't even know the brain could be viable without any noticeable wrinkles.

Exeres · **Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:35 pm

Technically it's not, since most who suffer from it die young, and the specific person to whom that brain belonged died in a mental hospital, but I know what you meant.

Mete · **Joined:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:54 pm **Posts:** 12656

Fossil of largest known platypus discovered in Australia

As if platypuses weren't bizarre enough already.

AWKWARD ZOMBIE

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